Writer in Residence, 2021 Achiro Patricia Olwoch, hailing from Gulu in Northern Uganda, is an award-winning writer, director, and producer currently living in exile in New York. A former Weiss International Fellow and Scholar at Risk at Barnard College (2023/2024), Achiro has received numerous accolades for her groundbreaking works, including the TV series Coffee Shop […]
Visual Artist in Residence, 2021-2022 Nazanin Noroozi is a multi-disciplinary artist incorporating moving images, printmaking and alternative photography processes to reflect on notions of collective memory/history, instability and displacement. Noroozi’s work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums across the world including SPACES, Cleveland (OH), Athopos, Athens (Greece), Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf (Germany), Immigrant Artist
Yasmeen is a Lebanese director, writer, and actress based in Brooklyn (technically Queens). Her journey began in Lebanon, continued with a master’s in screenwriting and directing in Paris, and took her to New York for an intensive program at Stone Street Studios. After working in all three countries, she took a break to transition and
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Bart Was Not Here is a Burmese artist in exile based in New York. Bart’s mediums span from working with large scale canvases to figurines, sculptural installations, illustrations, and still expanding. He explores his art practice through world-building, characters, and fiction in a visual language that stemmed from curiosity and escapism – which were his
Cansu Korkmaz is a Turkish-born visual artist based in Brooklyn. Her work explores themes of intimacy, memory, and identity through photography and mixed media. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Bridge and Tunnel Gallery (in-between, NY), Mixer Arts (LENS’19: Things Seen), Daire Gallery (Cure as Care), ALAN Istanbul, BAU Gallery,
Visual Artist in Residence, 2025 Margarita Kuleva is an artist, researcher, and curator. She is based in New York and teaches at NYU Arts&Science and Steinhardt. In her research and art projects, she mainly uses ethnography, institutional interventions, and performance as methods. She is interested in exploring social inequalities in artistic production and boundaries in
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