The CATAPULT Stay Home Artist Residency provides opportunities for 24 cultural practitioners from the English, French, Spanish and Dutch speaking Caribbean to be supported while safely remaining in their studios/work-spaces, each of whom will receive a $3,000 USD stipend to produce work over a two-month period. The programme targets individuals exploring the critical key themes of culture, human rights, gender, LGBTQIA+, and climate justice which are so relevant to the region.

Using this residency as an opportunity for the growth of their practice, the Stay Home residents will also share blog posts bi-monthly about the work they are doing. This blog will facilitate artists’ reflections on their process and practice while documenting the experience for both their benefit and that of the wider public. The blog will be hosted on the CATAPULT online platforms.

Read the CATAPULT Stay Home Artist Residency Jury Report here, and click on the images below to learn more about each resident artist and keep up with their work!

Group 1: September 21 – November 13, 2020

La Vaughn Belle
US Virgin Islands

 

Taisha Carrington
Barbados

 

Natusha Croes
Aruba

 

Maria E. Govan
The Bahamas

 

Patrick Jerome Lafayette
Jamaica

 

Daphné Menard
Haiti

 

Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Puerto Rico

 

Reginald Senatus
Haiti

 

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Stay Home Artist Residency Blogs: Issue 1

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Vol. 2

Vol. 3

Vol. 4

 

Group 2: October 5 – November 27, 2020

Lisa Allen-Agostini
Trinidad & Tobago

 

Camille Chedda
Jamaica

 

Joshua Clarke
Barbados

 

Sonia Farmer
The Bahamas

 

Gwladys Gambie
Martinique

 

Jorge González
Puerto Rico

 

Héctor Eliazar Ortiz
Dominican Republic

 

Carol Joan Sorhaindo
Dominica

 

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Stay Home Artist Residency Blogs: Issue 2

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Vol. 2

Vol. 3

Vol. 4

 

Group 3: October 19 – December 11, 2020

Franz Caba
Dominican Republic

 

Myrlande Constant
Haiti

 

Miguel Keerveld
Suriname

 

Kelly Sinnapah Mary
Guadeloupe

 

Ada M. Patterson
Barbados

 

Las Nietas de Nonó
Puerto Rico

 

Shivanee Ramlochan
Trinidad & Tobago

 

Angelika Wallace-Whitfield
The Bahamas

 

Stay Home Artist Residency Blogs: Issue 3

Vol. 1

Vol. 2

Vol. 3

Vol. 4

Visiting Critics/Mentors

Holly Bynoe St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Sherwood McCaskie Barbados

Natalie McGuire-Batson Barbados

Janet Morrison Jamaica

Debra Providence St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Matilde dos Santos Martinique

CATAPULT | A Caribbean Arts Grant is a COVID-19 relief programme conceptualised by Kingston Creative (Jamaica) and Fresh Milk (Barbados) and funded by the American Friends of Jamaica | The AFJ (USA). Designed as a capacity building initiative it will directly provide financial support to over 1,000 Caribbean artists, cultural practitioners and creative entrepreneurs impacted by the pandemic and working in the themes of culture, human rights, gender, LGBTQIA+, and climate justice.