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Taking Up Residence: Notes on the Complicated Experience of Being an Artist-in-Residence
In 2016, I went to my first artist residency. After spending months preparing applications, nursing rejecction wounds, and celebrating a few victories, I accepted the invitation from Santa Fe Art Institute to be a part of their thematic ‘Water Rights’ cohort. I was hot off the heels of Agile Rascal’s inaugural cross-country trip, and no longer stuttered or got weird when someone called me an artist. I was finally ready to take up residence! I showed up in October of 2016

Dara at Creative Structures
Feb 35 min read
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