Past Projects

Information about past UETF Artist Resiliency Residency projects.

An Art Experience Naomi Elizabeth Montoya - Keshet Center for the Arts	Description An Art Experience: A multimedia collage installation created and curated by Naomi Elizabeth Montoya & Su Hudson. Enchanted with the diverse New Mexico landscapes and the unconventional angles that can only be captured by camera in dance for film, many of Naomi Montoya's and Su Hudson’s collaborations of the last two decades have explored and challenged society’s expectations of nature, architectural design, and living space. Together, we create art that exists as experimental dance films for screen, installations for gallery, and multi-media performance pieces for stage. We enjoy the all-immersive aspect of site-specific work and, when showcased, the experiential aspect of the audience often being part of the work. Our collaborations also explore female existence - from our lens as well as the viewer’s. Through the whimsy of our work, we find ourselves freed from the drudgery of the everyday experience. An Art Experience is supported by City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund through their Resiliency Residency program, with support by Keshet Center for the Arts.

Archive of Memory Juliana Coles - National Institute of Flamenco	Description The antiquated Library is a collection of Sketchbooks, Artist Books and Visual Journals, created over a lifetime, that provides tangible documentation of an artistic process that is always under threat of erasure due to epilepsy. Living with ongoing brain trauma means linear time is interrupted by the demise of both long and short-term memory. These books, part of an existential retrieval practice that uncovers clues to my whereabouts in the form of a fragmented paper trail, are containers that reveal stories which should never be forgotten. This Hall of Records is more than a retrospective, it is an Archive of Memory.

Sopita De Entropía Tatiana Isabel Gil - FUSION	Description This mixed media theatrical experience is an invitation to the Latine community to decolonize the self as a Latine individual first internally, but then also in relationship to friends, family, and the broader Latine community. “A dinner party unravels in and out of reality as a group of Latine folks from the Southwest United States come together to celebrate Gabriella’s birthday one autumn night in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This group of artists, activists, business owners, and social workers stumble into a heated, and stubbornly nuanced discussion around their feelings/orientation to colonization, assimilation, and indigeneity. The magic of their ancestors compels each person to unravel in poetics about their experience, inviting audiences and fellow dinner guests to sit with the complexities of all these realities existing together all at once.” Accompanied by the Sopita De Entropía workbook where you can create your own Sopita, the play encourages you to start your own decolonization journey.

Marlon Jason Asenap - Puha Hubiya	Description Jason Asenap is a Comanche and Muscogee Creek writer, critic, and filmmaker. For his Resiliency Residency project he produced a short film, Marlon. The film premiered Saturday, March 18th at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque. Film composer Kateri Lopez will perform starting at 11:30 am, with a screening following at noon.

Walking on Eggshells - WoE Kristine Maltrud and Keely Mackey-Gonzales - FUSION	Description WoE: Walking on Eggshells explores the idiom through layers of meaning and expression, including etymology, personal narrative, historical events, and current global predicaments. The performance content is both timely and rooted in time. This performance piece is a work-in-progress followed by a talkback with the audience. Wine, sparkling water, and nibblies will be served to attendees who stay for the talkback portion of this event.

NOVA Elyse Fahey - FUSION	Description Elyse Fahey is a dancer and choreographer from Albuquerque. She dances professionally across the city, has been invited to neighboring cities to perform, and owns Studio Sway which has become a hub for independent dance in Albuquerque. She used her grant to pay seven dance artists to be in a new work, premiering at the 2023 Keshet Choreographer’s Showcase. Elyse’s Website: www.elysemarinfahey.com

Just Want to be Wanted: Exhibition at Sidetrack Brewing Alex Knight - Keshet Center for the Arts	Description Alex Knight is an actor and watercolor artist. He used his funds to produce an exhibition of his watercolors at Sidetrack Brewing in early 2023. Alex’s Instagram: @scalknight

Celebrating El Bosque Brian Stinson - Keshet Center for the Arts	Description Brian Stinson is a plein air painter currently residing in Albuquerque, NM. For the last three years he has explored the beauty of the Middle Rio Grande in a series of drawings and paintings done in situ. The artist hopes that these works will serve as a basis of reflection and discussion regarding a place experiencing critical change while still exhibiting immense natural beauty for the curious viewer. Brian’s Exhibit at the Open Space Visitor Center opens October 8th and will be on view until December 17th.

El Kookooeee se Quema Fidel Gonzalez - AfroMundo/The Dellsly Group	Description El Kookooeee se Quema (the Burning of the Kookooee) is an event where community members write their fears on pieces of paper that are then dropped and burned inside the Kookooee - a symbol of the community's collective freedom from fears. Fidel Gonzalez opened the event as an Aztec dancer as well as performed experimental, improvised music along with a group of musicians I convened for this event called Los Hijos del Kookooee.

When the Veil Thins Elizabeth Garland and Keely Mackey - FUSION	Description When the Veil Thins celebrates Dia de Los Muertos and Celtic Samhain with a one-night only performance! Holding our ancestors close and celebrating them, in an evening of original compositions, choreography, sword dancing and more! Put on by Delphi Project, featuring internationally award-winning composers Elizabeth Garland and Keely Mackey-Gonzales aka Celloquacious. This unique show is unlike anything else in Albuquerque! Featuring music from "Futuristic Antiquity," Delphi Project is Neo-classical, ranging from dynamic to dreamlike, always different, and truly moving. Accompanied by professional musicians and performance artists, When the Veil Thins, will provide a haunting, reflective, and celebratory romp for all ages, to mark the magic of this time of year.

Visible Helen Juliet Atkins - Puha Hubiya	Description Helen Juliet Atkins, in partnership with Secret Gallery, is hosting a live painting event of her mural “Visible” at Boese Brothers Brewing in Downtown Albuquerque. Her mural celebrates three local working-class individuals and takes inspiration from their lives and stories. Helen Juliet Atkins is an accomplished artist who has completed multiple commissions across Albuquerque and works at the Harwood Art Center. The mural launch will take place Friday, October 21st with a Halloween Art Market and music by Sazoram and DJ Mo.

Corporeal Body: A Body of Work Juliana Coles - National Institute of Flamenco	Description Remarque Print Workshop presents new works on paper by Albuquerque artist Juliana Coles. Highly detailed, visceral, and raw mixed media works on paper combine figure drawings and hand lettered narrative with collected vintage maps. These cartographic figurative drawings, maps of the interior, serve as tangible evidence of the journey. Lonely figures, compass roses, cartouches, and rhumb lines are tools to navigate the grief of unnecessary losses; you are not here.

Aliens on the Border Antonio Armani Leon - AfroMundo/The Dellsly Group	Description Born out of a forfeiture of land more than a century and a half ago, Chicano/a and Mexican-American identity has long been put into question over its place in the fabricated American racial order, resulting in deeply embedded and embodied feelings of alienation, assimilation, invasion, otherness, and imaginary borders; all common and undeniable themes in science fiction. I propose that nearly all Chicano/a stories can be read through a sci-fi lens. When confronted by the underlying pull of U.S. assimilation, people of color lean on the resilience of their cultural identities to simultaneously pursue independent style while still honoring the aesthetics of their communities. Chicanafuturist author, Gloria Anzaldua, references Chicanx people often feeling “alienated from their mother culture, and alienated from their dominant culture.” This exhibit explores these notions of Chicano/a’s as the alien/other, both adapting to and resisting the(ir) new world. I abstractly invoke various Mexican/Chicano/a subcultures and examine the cracks between worlds, race, gender, the linearity of time, and the societal/cultural boundaries of the human body. Through the use of sculpture and painting inspired by family portraits, a fictional alien race is manifested and observed. This exhibition is Raza-SciFi, reinterpreting the concept of the “alien,” and pushing for a sci-fi deconstruction of colonial imagery.

Eyeshine Adrian Pijoan - FUSION	Description "Eyeshine" explores an encounter with the paranormal through an installation of video, animation, and sculpture. Adrian uses his long-running paranormal researcher alter-ego, Dr. Howard, to explore his anxieties that arise from the tension between the horrific real, and the sublime unreal. "Eyeshine" is a loving and sometimes bittersweet homage to these stories and the sustenance they provide during difficult times--a vision into both outer space and inner worlds. Check out the Albuquerque Courier Review!

Floatie Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales - National Institute of Flamenco	Description Floatie was a collaboration between Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales and Mikey S. as well as 6 other community members who put work into design, costume creation and choreography. The installation was designed to bring summer fun into any space, and it certainly brought that to many places! Floatie premiered at SOMOS 2022, and had several pop-ups around the city, including three Queer/Pride celebrations, including Gabriel’s own class; XenXual. XenXual is a celebration of queer arts and is a class in finding self-confidence and sensuality.

Celloquacious: I Speak Through My Cello Keely Mackey-Gonzales - FUSION	Description Mackey wrote this album as a love letter to Nature in music form, as gratitude for the healing she experiences when she is immersed in nature’s elements. Since Mackey composes and plays from her heart, this can be felt by her listeners. People have described Keely’s nature-inspired music as “healing: simultaneously relaxing and invigorating,” “beautifully haunting lush cello-y vibes,” and “luring sounds from antiquity.” She will engage you, surprise you, and hold space for you with this performance. Check out the Albuquerque Courier article!

Lithosphere Heart Tatiana Isabel Gil - FUSION	Description A young woman, reckless in her pursuit of her deepest desires, learns how to love herself while reconciling the intersections of her identity as Queer, Catholic and Latina. Through a kaleidoscopic landscape of music, prayer, memory, art, and imagination punctuated by four love affairs, Lithosphere Heart chronicles the soaring heights and scarring lows of teenage Alejandra's journey towards self-discovery and healing. This mixed-media theater dance choreo-poem workshop performance explores selected movement pieces from Tatiana Isabel's full length play, Lithosphere Heart. Videos Meet the Cast Meet the Creative Facilitators

Midnite Theatre Rhiannon Frazier - FUSION	Description This fringe theatre production featured a host, a local talent and included everything from murderous puppets, exciting short plays, a visual art installation and a musical comedy act featuring Hakim Bellamy.

bodies (part one) Sarah Groth - Keshet Center for the Arts	Description Bodies (part one) was presented during the Albuquerque Contemporary Dance Festival’s film night at FUSION Forum.

Edmund and the Astronaut Sarah Loeppke and Ross Kelly - FUSION	Description When an astronaut is stranded on a distant planet, they discover they are not alone! Stranded with them is a small lonely robot named Edmund. Edmund and the Astronaut is a creative new play by residency artist team JoyrKade. Using the UETF Residency grant, they were able to get buy-in from a robotics team in California to build out a fully functional robot who will be the star of this play. Behind the Scenes Video

Chimera Jamie Rose - National Institute of Flamenco	Description Chimera is a collection of charcoal drawings with inspiration from the Japanese art of Kitsugi-the practice of fixing cracks with gold. Presented at Silver Bar Studios, Chimera is a celebration of women in all forms.

InnerTribal Tiffanie Irizarry and Joseph Arnoux - Puha Hubiya	Description Exhibition hosted by Orpheum Community Hub, the show examines portraits ranging from historical and contemporary, in both Indigenous and pop cultures.