NEW Community Engaged Practice 2-Week Residency Programs in 2026 for Artists & Researchers — Mexico & Peru
NEW Community Engaged Practice 2-Week Residency Programs 2026 for Artists & Researchers — Mexico & Peru
https://www.arquetopia.org/special-themed-residency-programs
Arquetopia is excited to announce the launch of VAACA (Vinculación Académica, Artística y Comunitaria de Arquetopia), our new area of Community Engaged Practice. This initiative focuses on strengthening educational and artistic connections with diverse sectors, fostering the shared responsibility of participating in healthy cultural ecosystems. Through VAACA, we will expand our collaborations with museums and cultural institutions, share our critical perspectives, and build meaningful bridges with cultural heritage.
As part of this effort, we are introducing a series of new residencies that bring critical perspectives to artistic practice, with a special focus on non-dominant forms of knowledge that have historically been ignored. These programs highlight reciprocal learning, encourage situated practices, and invite participants to engage with culture as a living and dynamic system.
Upcoming Programs
My First Arquetopia Residency: A two-week introductory program designed exclusively for applicants ages 20 to 25 who are beginning, rethinking, or formalizing their artistic practice.
Botany and the Mapping of Ignorance (2026): An immersive two-week learning program that rethinks the history of botany through the lens of colonial knowledge and ecological interdependence.
Unmaking Power, Remaking Worlds: A two-week guided art program designed as a cultural ecosystem, where art, knowledge, and community practices intersect to generate new possibilities for inhabiting the world.
Day of the Dead (2026): A two-week immersive learning program centered on the practices, rituals, and ancestral knowledge of Día de Muertos, combining Spanish language learning, tasting, and creating as pathways into cultural memory and continuity.
Through these new initiatives, Arquetopia continues to nurture critical dialogue, collective learning, and the creation of new methodologies rooted in reciprocity and cultural awareness. Don’t hesitate to contact us for more information.
HOW TO APPLY—
Visit the Arquetopia Foundation website at https://www.arquetopia.org
E-mail us at info@arquetopia.org
Complete and submit the Arquetopia Artist-in-Residence Online Application Form https://www.arquetopia.org/residency-application, following the instructions indicated.
Following selection, applicants are notified immediately via e-mail.
Arquetopia is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our diverse local and international community. Arquetopia’s resident artist and staff backgrounds vary in all aspects. As part of Arquetopia’s mission is to promote diversity, Arquetopia actively fights discrimination by offering access to its programs and activities without regard to race, color, gender or gender expression, national origin, age, religion, creed, or sexual orientation.
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