Artist Sustainability Initiative
I create opportunities for artists to engage their communities through the development of new works and conversations. My goal is to support artists in strengthening their creative foundations so we may collectively advance humanity.
As an artist and arts professional with 15 years of experience, I believe in giving back by cultivating artist minority groups. This work takes the form of exhibitions, performances, and artist talks.
The ethnicities and nationalities of the creatives I have supported to date are African-American, American, Asian, Austrian, Belgian, Black, Brazilian, Chilean, Dutch, French, German, Hispanic, Indian, Iranian, Israeli, Italian, Japanese, Latino, Latvian, Mexican, Peruvian, Portuguese, South African, South Korean, and Spanish.
This initiative is supported by the European Union’s Next GenerationEU program through the Break Fellowship for Social Impact Entrepreneurship, supporting female entrepreneurs across Europe.
Video still from The Deep by dancer Patricia Keleher.
Selected WORKS
IN TENSION
Experimental Performance: Dance, Sound, Video Projection, 2022
Luna Ananda: French Dancer, Choreographer & Visual Creative Director
Hannah Zwaans: Dutch Choreographer & Performer
THE DEEP
Experimental Dance Film: Video Installation, 2022
Patricia Keleher: American Dancer, Artist & Choreographer
SAL
Experimental Performance: Movement, Live Sound, Salt, 2022
Lua Carreira: Portuguese Artist, Dancer & Choreographer
COSMOVISION
Chilean Dance & Peruvian Performance Art, 2023
Cinthia Pérez Soto: Chilean Dancer & Karim Romero: Peruvian Artist
Artist DinneRS
Rita Onofre, Portuguese singer and songwriter.
In the Artist Dinner series, artists share their creative visions and cultural goals with the local community. As an often underrepresented demographic, artists have opportunities to speak about what it means to be an artist in our society, from addressing social issues to sharing artistic processes.
Previous Artists: Rita Onofre, Patricia Keleher, Andrea Huber Gutierrez, Diane Giraud, Francesca Faulin, Lua Carreira, Magdalena Schweiger, Natasha Pinto, Melanie Cardoso
OCEANO ATLÂNTICO EXHIBITION
Analog photograph by Portuguese photographer Bárbara Alves.
Starting from the call of the Ocean we developed an exhibition that explores the Atlantic Ocean along the Portuguese coastline and islands; the country for which we are all fascinated, we feel the calling of the ocean and we cannot resist. It is present with us in daily life, through the air, in its sounds, its light, in its never-ending, all-encompassing form.
Through the mediums of installation, movement, voice, film, photography and sculpture, the Lisboa community is invited to immerse themselves in these works and expand the conversation of what it means to experience the Portuguese coastlines in the context of their own lives.
Rita Onofre, Patricia Keleher, Lua Carrreira, Yara Fukimoto, Bárbara Alves, Cécile Mestelan
October 27th - December 1st, 2022
Artist List
Performance, Sound, Dance, Writing, INSTALLATION, Sculpture, Film, Photography, Painting, Drawing
Alexa Almany Bárbara Alves Bárbara Amalie Bliebernicht Luna Ananda Emily Baker Sael Bartolucci Lucie Bayens Sasha Bergstrom-Katz Melanie Cardoso Lua Carreira Abigail Collins Courtney Cone Vanessa Cruz Maria Francisca de Abreu Afonso Gaspard de Spoelberch Silvie Deutsch Jessica Dillon Madalena Dornellas Galvão Francesca Faulin Yara Fukimoto Gabriel Garcia Vanessa Gingold Diane Giraud Aimee Goguen Jarie Gray Jenalee Harmon Patricia Keleher Alice Lang Karolina Lavergne Avery Lawrence Léonard Le Cloarec Carolina Lino Reuben Merringer Cécile Mestelan Kimberly Morris Yael Nov Rita Onofre Cinthia Pérez Soto Natasha Pinto Tricia Rangel Regine Rode Lara Rodríguez Cruz Karim Romero Alice Sandahl Magdalena Schweiger Jess Scott Reinhart Selvik Delbar Shahbaz Kate Smith Jesse Spears Kate Stewart Karley Sullivan Marissa Sumiré Kang Sung Lee Arden Surdam Jenna Thornhill-DeWitt Džūlija Trutiak Shannon Willis Audra Wist Bobbi Woods Eliot Yasumura Aziz Yonuss Hannah Zwaans