We would like to welcome our May writer and artists-in-residence @anne.k.ream@randyjaynerosenberg and @ejkellerman_artist 🤗😃🤗
They are already here since the beginning of the month and we do hope they enjoy Alyki and everything 😃😃😃
Welcome welcome welcome 🤗🤗🤗
English below-
Αύριο, Σάββατο, 16 Μαΐου, στις 20:00, σας περιμένουμε να δούμε την Ελληνική ταινία «Υπάρχει και φιλότιμο» με τον Λαμπρο Κωνσταντάρα. Ελάτε να γελάσουμε και να φασκελώσουμε παρέα 🤣🤣🤣
Πάρτε τους γονείς σας, τους παππούδες, τις γιαγιάδες σας και τα παιδιά σας και ελάτε να κάνουμε παρέα 😃😃😃🤗🤗🤗
Θα έχουμε σουμιτσα και ποπ κορν 🍿 σας περιμένουμε με πολλή χαρά 🤗🤗🤗
Ο υπουργός Ανδρέας Μαυρογιαλούρος, με αφορμή τα εγκαίνια ενός μαιευτηρίου, επισκέπτεται το χωριό της εκλογικής του περιφέρειας, την Πλατανιά. Στην διαδρομή, έχουν ένα μικρό ατύχημα με το αυτοκίνητο, με αποτέλεσμα οι κάτοικοι του χωριού να τρέξουν να βοηθήσουν, χωρίς να έχουν αντιληφθεί ποιός είναι. Έτσι, αντιλαμβάνεται τα αληθινά τους προβλήματα, την οικονομική διαφθορά και τα ψέμματα των συνεργατών του, αποφασίζοντας να λάβει δράση.
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Greek movie from 1965, no subtitles unfortunately, but I am sure you will laugh from your heart watching it 🤣this Saturday, May 16, at 20:00.
Minister Andreas Mavrogialouros, on the occasion of the inauguration of a maternity hospital, visits the village of his constituency, Platania. On the way, they have a minor car accident, resulting in the villagers running to help, without realizing who he is. Thus, he realizes their real problems, the financial corruption and the lies of his associates, deciding to take action.
Greek movie from 1965, no subtitles unfortunately, but I am sure you will laugh from your heart watching it 🤣this Saturday, May 16, at 20:00.
Καλημέρα όλη μέρα με υγεία και χαμόγελα 😃😃😃
Σας προσκαλούμε αυτό το Σάββατο, 16 Μαΐου, στις 20:00, να δούμε μαζί μια από τις πιο επίκαιρες Ελληνικές ταινίες, το «Υπάρχει και φιλότιμο» με τον Λαμπρο Κωνσταντάρα να παίζει τον απίθανο Μαυρογιαλούρο. Ελάτε να γελάσουμε και να φασκελώσουμε παρέα 🤣🤣🤣
Πάρτε τους γονείς σας, τους παππούδες, τις γιαγιάδες σας και τα παιδιά σας και ελάτε να κάνουμε παρέα 😃😃😃🤗🤗🤗
Θα έχουμε σουμιτσα και ποπ κορν 🍿 σας περιμένουμε με πολλή χαρά 🤗🤗🤗
"In Greece landscape and light are so beautiful, so all-present, so intense, so wild that the relationship is immediately love-hatred, one of passion." My favorite way of preparing for time spent in a new place is through works of fiction, and "The Magus" by John Fowles - the literary classic from which this excerpt comes, set on a fictional Greek island - hasn't disappointed. It captures something seductive and little bit spooky about the skyline here, especially at sunset. I took this shot at the seaside restaurant up the street from my home for the month, @cycladicarts . Next literary stops: "Apartment in Athens" (Glenway Wescott) and The Names (Don DeLillo). And @rcliftonspargo ? Thanks for always being good for a place-specific book recommendation.
We would like to THANK everybody who came to our April open studios event few days ago. Art and music connected beautiful people in our katoikia once again 💙
THANK YOU ALL and especially our artists-in-residence @marykoniavitis@victoria_veedell and @carolinewalkerstudio who were the excuse that brought us together once more 💙🤗🙏thank you for sharing your beautiful works with us 🤩
Thank you to all our friends, young and old, relatives, locals, visitors and expatriates for your support in what we do 🙏💙it means the world to us here in Cycladic Arts 🙏💙
Thank you to the wonderful musicians @skontaratou Arsenis Skiadas and Markos Kydoniefs for their beautiful music that made the evening even more memorable 💙
Thank you to the ones who sent me photos and videos from this beautiful celebration!
Till next time my dears!
Stay connected :
Please check our website and social media regularly for upcoming events 😃🤗🤩
#cycladicarts
#cycladicartsartistinresidencyprogram
#artistresidency #artistinresidencyprogram #artistinresidence
Happy May everyone 💐💐💐🌺🌺🌺🌸🌸🌸🌼🌼🌼
Honored to see our program, open studios and April’s artists in residence featured in @iefimerida.gr 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Thank you Thank you everyone who made this happen and especially Mary 💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏
POSTCARDS FROM THE VERSE - Hi, y’all! Sharing some photos from my beautiful residency in Paros, Greece! 🇬🇷
Highlights:
🦋 Arrived in Paros, Greece as the 2026 @cycladicarts Fellow! I’m grateful to @dimskandali and the advisory board for the honor of time and space… to create, rest, and daydream on the Aegean Sea
🦋 My work is a meditation on the liminal geographies (physical/spiritual) that Black Women traverse across spacetime while navigating the wakes of familial and socio-political violence.
🦋 Water is the alpha and omega of this work — Blue becomes the primary color - so how synchronicitous to pick up Imani Perry’s Black In Blues earlier this year and find myself on an island with its own Blue history while I meditate on blue in cultures of the peoples of present day nigeria and Senegal.
🦋Photos:
☀️ Arriving in Paros
☀️Studio Time
☀️Morning Meditation
☀️Work Table
☀️ Blue notes (part of a five movement suite of poems/poem-collages)
☀️(Time Is) Fleeting — a practice in patience — thanks @remicawriter 😉
☀️ Aunt Lucille joins me on every journey. View from my “hidden” hangout about 1.5 hrs walk down the coast…
☀️This star about 300 yards from the coastline… now in my studio.
☀️More blues, More Black n’ Beautiful, More shadow dancing
☀️Morning alarm clocks: roosters and jackhammers
☀️Athens & Me
A verse from a poem I read while in Greece:
“my waterlost children oh the years/ on their fading faces oh the terrible sea/ of their names” - la llorona, Lucille Clifton, At The Gate
See you from my next journey across the ‘Verse!
Xo,
.CHISARAOKWU.
We are very excited to celebrate the works of our April artist-in-residence this Sunday at 19:30 🤩🤩🤩
Here, please meet @marykoniavitis 🤩
Mary Koniavitis was born in Melbourne (Naarm), Australia, and has spent many years living between Australia, Greece and the USA. She returned to Melbourne in 2021 after residing in Austin TX since 2016. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) (2009) and a Master of Visual Arts (2013) from Monash University, Melbourne.
Mary’s practice merges mythology, personal and cultural memory, and subconscious states of being. Drawing on Surrealist techniques such as automatism, she engages the unconscious as a generative space, allowing chance associations to shape the early stages of her work.
Her paintings explore shared human experience, using visual language to give form to forces that inhabit the realm of dreams. Through this process, she renders visible universal symbols and archetypes embedded within collective memory.
Mary maintains a studio in Melbourne, where her practice continues to evolve through an ongoing dialogue between these cultural contexts. She has exhibited across Australia and the United States, with her work shaped by periods of living between these environments. Her work has also been published by Texas A&M University, extending her engagement with international audiences.
What she says about her experience with us:
My time at the Cycladic Art Residency in Aliki has been a profound gift; one of exploration, reflection and renewed inspiration. As a child of Greek immigrants, Greece has long existed for me both as a lived and inherited place. Having spent time here in my childhood and later working in Greece as a young adult, returning after a seventeen year absence to take part in this residency has felt like a deeply personal and nostalgic homecoming; one that reconnects me with place, ancestry and the mythologies that have long shaped my practice.
(Please read more at the comments)
We look forward to celebrating the works of our April artist-in-residence this Sunday at 19:30 🤩🤩🤩
Here please meet @victoria_veedell 🤩
Victoria Veedell is a San Francisco-based painter interested in light, atmosphere, and the emotional memory of place, using contemporary landscape painting as a means of inquiry. Her practice is rooted in sustained observation and reflection, focusing on transitional moments when light subtly alters perception and form. Her paintings distill sensory experience, inviting contemplation and an awareness of stillness and time.
Her work explores an enduring relationship to nature often shaped by travel and repeated engagement with particular environments. Using photographs and small studies as points of departure to develop works that function as meditative records of place, addressing both personal memory and broader concerns related to environmental change and preservation.
Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally at venues including the Triton Museum (CA), Maturango Museum (CA), Aerena Galleries (CA), New Museum Los Gatos, (CA) Chico Art Center (CA), James Baird Gallery (Canada), and Sakai Museum (Japan).
Veedell has attended numerous artist residencies, including Cycladic Arts (Greece), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VA), Pouch Cove Foundation (Canada), Chalk Hill (CA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Gullkistan (Iceland), KulttuuriKauppila (Finland), Kamiyama AIR (Japan), and Chitraniketan (India).
Her paintings are in many private and corporate collections, including the City of Kamiyama (Japan), Adobe Systems (CA), Northwestern Mutual (GA), and Sutter Health (CA).
Born in Houston, Texas, she earned her BFA from Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi and studied at the graduate level at NYU. Living and working in San Francisco, CA since 2003.
(More about her time with us in the comments 💖)
We are excited to invite you to our open studios celebration of our April artists-in-residence and meet the creatives who live and work here during this month 💖🤗
Please join us THIS Sunday, April26th at 19:30 and meet @carolinewalkerstudio 🤩
Here is more about her:
Caroline Walker is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intricacies of connection, pathways, and intersections. Shaped by over 20 years of experience in digital art direction from her previous career in advertising, she employs an experimental approach to materials and techniques, developing pieces that act as portals—bridging personal narratives with collective histories.
Originally from the Midwest, she spent most of her adult life in New York City before establishing her studio in
Austin, Texas in 2015.
Her work investigates the intersection of memory, place, and human connection, focusing on how spaces hold traces of the past and evoke a sense of presence even in absence. Working across sculpture, photography, and digital media, she creates pieces that function as portals between personal and collective experience. She engages both architectural and organic forms, often incorporating ladders, staircases, and pathways alongside elements that reference shelter and the natural world.
These forms symbolize movement, adaptation, and transformation, reflecting the tension between stability and change, permanence and impermanence. They invite the viewer to consider those who came before and those who will come after. Through the juxtaposition of rigid structures and fluid, organic shapes, Walker explores how individuals navigate transition both physically and emotionally.
Her work ultimately serves as a meditation on connection—how it is formed, how it is lost, and how it endures.
(Please read more about her experience with us at the comments)
We are super excited to invite you to share the works of @victoria_veedell@carolinewalkerstudio@marykoniavitis in our April Open Studios celebration this Sunday, April 26, at 19:30😃😃🤗🤗
All three of them, are here since the beginning of the month, working non stop and can’t wait to show everything to you ✨💫
Live Greek music by Arsenis Skiadas, Sophia Kontaratou and Markos Kydoniefs will follow the studio visits 😃😃😃
Because we always love to see you celebrating with us and because we insist on making good things happen 🤩🤩🤩
Admission is always free 🤗
