Today marks the last day of 2014, another eventful year at both the Sacatar Foundation, headquartered in California, and the Instituto Sacatar where I arrived yesterday for an annual visit.  While perusing this latest edition of the Jornal Sacatar prepared by our team in Bahia, I asked whether I might add a final note of THANKS to all former Sacatar Fellows who continue to stay in touch with us, providing us with further details and evidence of how their experiences at our residency program have impacted their careers in their home countries as well as through international exhibitions, performances, readings, lectures, etc.  Such acknowledgment is of paramount importance to funders.  Thank you.

I have been a long-time collector of both antique and hand-made frames.  The citizens of Itaparica make use of nearly everything, and in that spirit, this year I took several days to match up works donated by Sacatar Fellows (that had been in storage in our flat files in Pasadena) with available frames in my collection.  The recycled results, as assembled by a professional framer in Los Angeles County, are gratifying.  We are gradually preparing a group exhibition of works donated by Sacatar Fellows, and a growing number of those pieces are now carefully framed and ready to display.  All works remain the property of the Sacatar Foundation and will, we expect, be of enjoyment to friends of Sacatar in the U.S. and, we anticipate, to museums and galleries.  Below is just a brief sampling of works that were donated by Sacatar Fellows.  As framed, the pieces might suggest the feeling of timelessness visitors sense on the island of Itaparica, and they also remind us of the significance of each artist’s presence in Bahia.

Mitch Loch
President, Sacatar Foundation