{"id":5571,"date":"2025-07-14T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/sacatar-and-stanfords-institute-for-diversity-in-the-arts-enter-third-year-of-collaboration\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:18:28","slug":"sacatar-and-stanfords-institute-for-diversity-in-the-arts-enter-third-year-of-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacatar.org\/en\/sacatar-and-stanfords-institute-for-diversity-in-the-arts-enter-third-year-of-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacatar and Stanford\u2019s Institute for Diversity in the Arts Enter Third Year of Collaboration."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the third year in a row, Sacatar is partnering with Stanford University\u2019s Institute for Diversity in the Arts <\/em>(IDA) to host a residency session exploring shared experiences of the African diaspora. This year\u2019s group brings together U.S.-based and Brazilian artists \u2014 including three women artists from Bahia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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amara tabor-smith<\/strong> and A-Lan Holt<\/strong>
USA
Mentors of the IDA\/Stanford – Sacatar program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentors of the IDA\/Stanford – Sacatar residency session, we are thrilled to share this unique collaboration between the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and the Sacatar Institute in Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, we\u2019ve developed a five-week residency that brings together eight women artists\u2014graduate students, faculty from Stanford, and Brazilian multidisciplinary artists\u2014for an immersive experience centered on the African Diaspora. Hosted at Sacatar\u2019s headquarters in Itaparica, the program fosters vital conversations across different geographies of the Diaspora, grounding artistic practice in cultural exchange and critical reflection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This residency offers more than time and space to create; it is an invitation to engage deeply with questions of transnational Black identity, social justice, and national privilege. The artists will explore significant sites of Afro-diasporic culture across Itaparica, Salvador, and the Rec\u00f4ncavo Baiano, while connecting with local cultural leaders, institutions, and popular traditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recognize how rare and necessary it is to build spaces where artists, scholars, and cultural workers from different parts of the Diaspora can come together. This program was born from a shared commitment to creating room for dialogue, collaboration, and transformation\u2014both individually and collectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The residency will run from July<\/strong> 14 to August 18, 2025<\/strong>. We invite the public to follow the program\u2019s events and learn more by visiting sacatar.org<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexandrea Henry<\/strong>
Sound art | USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexandrea Henry is a multidisciplinary artist and former educator whose visual work often centers on film photography, embracing the tactile and intentional nature of the medium. In addition to photography, her practice includes poetry and lyrical prose, and is currently expanding into sound art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Brazil, Alexandrea is particularly interested in connecting with children involved in the Landless Workers\u2019 Movement (MST) and other social movements to better understand how they perceive and express solidarity with global struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her residency at Sacatar, she will develop res\u00b7o\u00b7nance<\/em>, a project that explores sound as an artistic language. Influenced by Alexis Pauline Gumbs\u2019 writings on the power of the echo, Henry investigates how Brazilian children\u2014especially those in the Sem Terrinha movement\u2014listen and respond to calls for justice from other parts of the world, such as Palestine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ester de Oxum<\/strong>
Visual Arts | Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ester de Oxum is a multidisciplinary artist from Itamaraju, Bahia. Her work combines painting, performance, writing, and ritual. It connects art and ancestry, with an emphasis on Afro-diasporic knowledge and what the artists refers to as \u201ctechnologies of the sacred\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ester uses organic, symbolic materials to create works that evoke ancestral presences as well as \u201cinternal landscapes.\u201d She draws inspiration from Afro-diasporic mythologies, sacred songs, and the act of listening to the invisible. In doing so, she treats painting as a territory of incorporation, enchantment, and revelation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her residency at Sacatar, she intends to deepen an ongoing research into the At\u00f3s\u2014women who sing to Baba Egungun\u2014and their power as guardians of ancestral memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ester de Oxum\u2019s residency is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Secretary of Culture of the State of Bahia, through the Apoio a A\u00e7\u00f5es Continuadas of the Fundo de Cultura da Secretaria de Cultura do Estado da Bahia (SECULT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helen Salom\u00e3o<\/strong>
Multidisciplinary Arts | Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen Salom\u00e3o is a multidisciplinary artist from Salvador, Bahia. Her practice encompasses photography, video art, writing, and installations. In her work, spirituality, ancestry, and affection emerge as recurring themes, often explored as pathways to healing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salom\u00e3o’s work has been featured in significant exhibitions, including Ax\u00e9 Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis<\/em> (Fowler Museum at UCLA, California, 2017) and Somos aquelas que pereiam o abismo em busca das frestas<\/em> (group show at Instituto Tomie Ohtake, S\u00e3o Paulo, 2021). In the latter, Helen presented her first short film, Ra\u00edzes Mapas<\/em>, alongside documentary photographs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her residency at Sacatar, Salom\u00e3o plans to continue developing Diversas em Mim<\/em>, a series of self-portraits that combines photography, writing, painting, sewing, installations, and found objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNas Voltas Que O Mundo D\u00e1\u201d (from the series Diversas em Mim<\/em>) 2023-2024.
Black and white digital photography printed on Canson Infinity Rag Photographique 310 g\/m\u00b2 paper, with hand-applied interventions using oil pastel in earthy tones; self-portrait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ky\u00e9ra Sterling<\/strong>
Multimedia + Sound Art | USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ky\u00e9ra Sterling is a writer, curator, and doctoral student of Black art, film, and media at Stanford University. Her work engages questions of sound, Black metaphysics, and the moving image.

She has curated film programming for the Coolidge Corner Theater and the Anderson Collection at Stanford, and currently co-chairs a graduate-run film screening series. Her work is influenced by thinkers such as composer and sound artist Pauline Oliveros\u2014particularly the concepts of \u201cthe sonosphere\u201d and \u201cdeep listening\u201d\u2014and artist Jennie C. Jones, who explores the relationship between sound and architecture with an ear toward Black aural poetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her residency at Sacatar, she brings the project Untitled, 2025 | Sonic Constellations<\/em>, which explores the daily sounds and rhythms of Bahia through experimental captures of the territory\u2019s sonic textures. Part soundscape, part visual installation, the project is organized around the question: How might this network of frequencies \u201csound out\u201d strategies of cultural survival for Afro-diasporic peoples?<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“On Green Neon Necromance in the Work of Sandra Mujinga” 2024
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Lorena Ribeiro <\/strong>
Multidisciplinary Arts | Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorena Ribeiro is a multidisciplinary artist from Salvador, Bahia, with a master\u2019s degree in Language and Culture from the Federal University of Bahia. Her work spans writing, photography, visual arts, and crafts. As a writer, she produces poetry, short stories, and children’s literature, and has published the books Amuleto<\/em> (2024) and O Divertido Gloss\u00e1rio da Jana <\/em>(2020\/2023). Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including Poetas Negras Brasileiras<\/em> and Vozes Nordestinas<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ribeiro is the creator of the projects Passos entre Linhas<\/em> and Lendo a Bahia<\/em>, both of which focus on literary research and the promotion of works by Black women and artists from Bahia. Her literary writing reflects this ongoing research, as well as her observations of everyday life. Her visual artwork emerges from a similar perspective, often portraying the daily experiences of a Black woman living with fibromyalgia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Sacatar, Ribeiro will develop Conflu\u00eancia Insular<\/em>, a project that expands on themes explored in her handmade poetry book Amuleto<\/em>. The project delves into ideas of feminine cyclicality and sexuality, and aims to create new literary and visual works combining paint and embroidery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPassos Entre Linhas\u201d Project – 2024
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Sophie D’Souza<\/strong>
Multidisciplinary Arts | USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophie D\u2019Souza is an artist exploring the intersections of mixed media and the written form. Threading themes of dystopia and ecocriticism, her writing intimately portrays people and place, engaging spiritual knowledge and ancestral connection, and tending to the interrelationships between nature, humanity, systems of power, and resistance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophie is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University\u2019s Graduate School of Education, where she researches systemic violence and state dispossession and their impacts on communities of color. She has facilitated therapeutic collective spaces in schools and jails, where writing and artmaking serve as portals to imagining otherwise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Sacatar, Sophie plans to take a multidisciplinary approach to exploring ephemerality as it relates to elements of the natural and spiritual world\u2014through poetry, creative nonfiction, and image transfer techniques including cyanotypes. Her work investigates unseating the human in favor of what elemental forces can teach us. Sophie looks forward to being in relation with all beings in Bahia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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