Cross-Cultural Creation Residency
Three Anglophone artists
Three Francophone artists
Three Indigenous artists
Ten days of creative companionship
ArtsLink in collaboration with Mawi’art and the AAAPNB established an artistic research residency in 2019 that offered an Indigenous, Anglophone, and Francophone artist with a three-week multi-cultural opportunity that encouraged exploration, collaboration and creation. This is a biennial residency continued in 2021 (with the subsequent Wayfinding exhibit in 2022), and it will return in 2023.
Mawi’Art: Wabanaki Artist Collective collaborated with ArtsLink NB and L’Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick (AAAPNB), to offer the fourth Cross-Cultural Creation Residency, June 16-25, 2023 in Metepenagiag.
RESIDENCY GOALS:
- To encourage artistic exploration and the creation of new works, by creating in healthy, artistically conducive conditions
- To contribute to the increasing artistic quality of works
To facilitate collaboration and the sharing of expertise - To create significant cultural bridges between the different communities in the province
- To facilitate meetings between the artists and the public and help the public better understand the creation process.