Mare Residency and
@artistasfirstresponder present
@MareResidency at
@BlackSpaceResidency San Francisco. This summer’s artists-in-residence Taína Cruz
@virtualtai and Hannah Waiters
@waiter2z will work side-by-side at
@blackspaceresidency to consider and respond to the displacement and oft-overlooked Black history of San Francisco through their individual practices.
About AAFR
Artist As First Responder is a philanthropic organization and immersive arts platform that acknowledges, engages, and financially supports Black, Indigenous, and Artists of Color whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. We curate and collaborate to create intentional space for imagination, inquiry, activity and rest through Public Talks, Print and Publishing, Exhibitions, Grants/Mutual Aid, Site-Responsive Ceremonies and Artist Residencies, and attest that artists also serve society by making joy and celebration for integration and reclamation. Our work is rooted in a radical Black feminist tradition that centers the lives, archives, and technologies of Black womxn and femmes.
About Black Space Residency
Black [Space] Residency is an independent Black-led art residency program. It offers a physical container for imagination, inquiry, activity, and rest for Black creatives working across a myriad of disciplines. Our Artist-In-Residence and the Omi Poet-In-Residence have access to the working studio, staging gallery, darkroom, digital printing lab, and woodshop and are held with care by a small group of master artists and curators who offer mentorship and instruction in visual arts including digital printing, printmaking, photography, ceramic arts, and woodworks.
Operating at the intersection of abundance, well-being, safety, and self-determination, the work of Black [Space] Residency is rooted in the love of Black culture as a means of creating and offering space without any expectation of performative or production output from Black artists. Black [Space] Residency is fiscally sponsored by African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco.
![Mare Residency and @artistasfirstresponder present @MareResidency at @BlackSpaceResidency San Francisco. This summer’s artists-in-residence Taína Cruz @virtualtai and Hannah Waiters @waiter2z will work side-by-side at @blackspaceresidency to consider and respond to the displacement and oft-overlooked Black history of San Francisco through their individual practices.About AAFRArtist As First Responder is a philanthropic organization and immersive arts platform that acknowledges, engages, and financially supports Black, Indigenous, and Artists of Color whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. We curate and collaborate to create intentional space for imagination, inquiry, activity and rest through Public Talks, Print and Publishing, Exhibitions, Grants/Mutual Aid, Site-Responsive Ceremonies and Artist Residencies, and attest that artists also serve society by making joy and celebration for integration and reclamation. Our work is rooted in a radical Black feminist tradition that centers the lives, archives, and technologies of Black womxn and femmes.About Black Space ResidencyBlack [Space] Residency is an independent Black-led art residency program. It offers a physical container for imagination, inquiry, activity, and rest for Black creatives working across a myriad of disciplines. Our Artist-In-Residence and the Omi Poet-In-Residence have access to the working studio, staging gallery, darkroom, digital printing lab, and woodshop and are held with care by a small group of master artists and curators who offer mentorship and instruction in visual arts including digital printing, printmaking, photography, ceramic arts, and woodworks.Operating at the intersection of abundance, well-being, safety, and self-determination, the work of Black [Space] Residency is rooted in the love of Black culture as a means of creating and offering space without any expectation of performative or production output from Black artists. Black [Space] Residency is fiscally sponsored by African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco.](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6830334355691824272248_0_80acde23543701e95874acedb15080e1.jpg?o=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&h=f12b5aa431503d63450b22996e75d773)
![Excited to bring @MareResidency to San Francisco this summer! Hannah Waiters @waiter2z is one of this year's artists in residence.This year's residency is in partnership with @artistasfirstresponder and @blackspaceresidency.About Hannah:Hannah Waiters (she/her/they/them) was born, raised, and trained to make art in the Bay Area (of Ohlone Land) and is a visual researcher, conceptual artist, and educator. Her interdisciplinary research-driven art practice interests include museum studies, Black Atlantic philosophy, historical phenomenology in art history, and historical materialism. Working across social practice, photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions, Waiters invests in the potentialities of local visual cultural activism. Visual cultural activism, being on the support of Black social history that actively visually critiques Western interpretations in genealogies of (art) histories and local communities these genealogies they neglect and gentrify.In 2021 Waiters earned an MFA in Fine Arts and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. Waiters received the Edwin Anthony and Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan award during her graduate studies. And in 2020, Waiters' exhibited MFA artwork in the "de Young Open." Waiters' work has headlined Hyperallergic and has been featured in KQED. More recently, Waiters exhibited with Slash Art Gallery. More recently, Waiters exhibited with Slash Art Gallery using the gallery as a medium to reimagine community-centered art collections representing the impacts of local visual culture. She has since shown with San Francisco Arts Commission, where she presented a site-determined installation focused on collecting marginalized time-based (media) visual culture surrounding the host institution in the Civic Center neighborhood. Waiters is currently a Collections Fellow in Contemporary & American art at the de Young Museum.To support the work of this year's residency visit us at mareresidency.org/donate [Link in Bio]](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6830335072493910123129_0_8ed43b7c9740ed8bf81a1135a0199356.jpg?o=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&h=86131179f22897402876d244422ada8c)
