PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS OF 2016
We initiated a program we call Sacatar Solo, which, by invitation, provides residency opportunities for established artists of international acclaim. Our first Soloist was performance artist extraordinaire Laurie Anderson. We hosted artists through ongoing institutional partnerships with:
- Africa Centre, based in South Africa, which provided assistance to host the Ghanian novelist Nana Ayim;
- Dance-UP — now defunct, formerly based in Philadelphia — which provided assistance to host the choreographer Ana Paula Hofling;
- FUNCEB, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the State of Bahia, which provided assistance to host the Brazilian author Deisiane Barbosa;
- Prêmio PIPA, based in Rio de Janeiro, which provided assistance to host the Brazilian visual artist Luciana Magno.
We also received a substantial grant from FUNARTE, the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, with which we organized an exchange of artists between the Instituto Sacatar and artist cooperatives in Acre (the Associação de Artistas Plásticos do Acre) at the far western reaches of the Amazon, and in Goiás (the Núcleo de Arte do Centro-Oeste) on the central plateau near Brasília. This project, OLHARES BRASILEIROS / BRAZILIAN EYES, included the production of a catalog which we have posted at www.sacatar.org under NEWS > SACATAR PUBLICATIONS.
Many former Fellows wish to return to Sacatar to pursue new work, often very specific to the local culture. In 2016, we hosted five such returning Fellows, selected from over twenty-four eager to return.
In 2016 we announced an Open Call for applications, for creative individuals of all nationalities, ages and artistic disciplines. We received 387 applications from forty-nine countries. Thirty-two prescreeners around the world recommended forty-six candidates for Fellowships. A Final Selection Committee winnowed these recommendations to thirty-one Finalists from eleven countries. These artists will be offered Fellowships between June 2017 and December 2018.
(Extract from the 2016 Sacatar Annual Report)
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