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Tlacopac International Artist Residency Mexico City

Type: Residencies, Workshops, Exchanges [View all]
Posted by: Crossing Bridges LLC/Puentes y Redes S.C.
Deadline: Thu, December 31st, 2020

Tlacopac International Artist Residency was established in Mexico City in 2019 by modern dancer and arts manager Jan Hanvik, New York and Mexico City, for educational, artistic, and cultural exchange among artists of all art forms, countries and cultures, emphasizing interaction with Mexican counterparts. Mexican artists are welcome to present projects.  

Tlacopac occupies the colonial-style house of Annette Nancarrow (1907 – 91) http://www.annettenancarrow.com/Home.html, U.S.-born jewelry designer, painter, and assistant to muralist José Clemente Orozco.  She commissioned the house from architect Manuel Parra (1911 – 97) https://mxcity.mx/2017/04/manuel-parra-el- otro-arquitecto-del-siglo-xx/, in 1948.   Parra repurposed elements of colonial architecture being destroyed by modernism.  Nancarrow lived in the house for many years with third husband Arkansas-born composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997)  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conlon_Nancarrow, principally known for his studies for player piano. 

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Orozco, Parra, painter/muralist/architect Juan O’Gorman, painter Maxwell Gordon,  Helena Rubinstein, Peggy Guggenheim, and innumerable others who made Mexico City a hotbed of international art, politics, and intercultural relations from the 1920s - 60s passed thru this house and/or the lives of its inhabitants. 

 

Today, expanding artistic, political, and gender awareness, Tlacopac with its ancient-beamed high-ceilinged living room with fireplace, 5 high-ceilinged bedrooms, large wood-floored column-free gymnasium/studio, individual artist studios, patios, gardens, sauna, steam room, rooftops, inter alia, welcomes performing, visual, literary, architectural, textile, design, and all other artists – women, seniors, LGBTQIA, indigenous, with disabilities, AsianMexicans, AfroMexicans – for “convivencia”, a deep living together of artists with shared unique cultural similarities and differences.  tlacopac@crossingbridges.nyc www.tlacopac.art 

Posted on Mon, June 22nd, 2020
Expires on Thu, December 31st, 2020

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