Fellowship
Meet the 2023-24 Fellows
The Leslie-Lohman Fellowship is a program of mentorship and collective learning that has centered intergenerational LGBTQIA+ artists of color since its inception. Fellows participate in a series of professional development workshops that provide art business skills, strategic planning, peer-to-peer learning, mentorship and community-building across disciplines in order to develop a sustainable art practice, over the course of eight months. The Fellowship is led by founding Director Ela Troyano and Artist Fellowship Manager Arantxa Araujo.
This year's awardees include Saira Barbaric (Seattle, USA), Seba Calfuqueo (Santiago, CL), Jordan Deal (Philadelphia, USA), La Fulminante: Nadia Granados (Bogotá, CO), PachaQueer: La CoCa & La MoTa (Quito, ECUA), Maque Pereyra (Berlin, DE), and Moises Salazar Tlatenchi (Chicago, USA).
The Artist Fellowship program is generously supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Saira Barbaric
Saira Barbaric is a multidisciplinary, gender-blending hedonist creature in a thicc Black disabled human suit. Based in Seattle since 2015, Saira creates performance, films, events and visual art that explore folklore, sex, Afro-Psychedelic dreams and glitches as expressionism. Saira is a co-creator in the queer porn crew Scumtrust Productions and a co-founder of the disabled arts event, Mouthwater Festival that premieres fall 2024. Learn more here.
Photo credit: Helen Moga
Seba Calfuqueo
Seba Calfuqueo is a Visual Artist and Curator at Espacio 218. They live and work in Santiago de Chile. They are part of the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü and Yene Revista. Mapuche Artist, their work recurs to their cultural heritage as a starting point in order to propose a critical reflection on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche subject within contemporary Chilean society. Learn more here.
Photo credit: Registro Azul Gattas
Jordan Deal
Jordan Deal, AKA ROSEKILLJUPITER, is a Philadelphia based multidisciplinary practitioner and alchemist. Their investigative practice uses performance, sound, film, and their BODY as a conduit between unseen forces and the materializations of socio-political structures. They have been investigating the accumulation of urban mythbuilding, mapping, memory, and the use of vocal and movement based improvisation as a generative and investigative tool that harnesses and disperses CHAOS FORCE as a subversive material and methodology. Learn more here.
Photo credit: Toum
Nadia Granados
In 2010, NADIA GRANADOS started an individual multimedia creation project, called La Fulminante. In 2015 began a multimedia performance process called COLOMBIANIZATION. Their artistic practice questions the manipulation strategies that exist behind the different systems of representation that circulate in the mass media, making a direct critique of these structures of symbolic power through music, performances, and audiovisual resources. Winner of the XI Luis Caballero Award / 2022. Learn more here.
Photo Credit: Self Portrait
Maque Pereyra
Maque Pereyra is a bolivian multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin who primarily works in body-based performance and music production. She has worked as a dancer for various choreographers and companies, and later began producing solo work. In 2018, she completed the MA SoDA program at UdK-HZT. Her work has received international recognition and has been presented at various events at HKW, Tanzquartier Wien, Tanztage, among others.
Learn more here.
Photo Credit: Paola Lambertín
CoCa & MoTa (PachaQueer)
CoCa & MoTa, two Andean queer transvestites, artists, activists and founders of PachaQueer [espacio libre de arte], a dissident, rebel, self-sustaining and "self-festive" trench of performance and politics based in Ecuador since May 2013. Their mutant project is built together with comrades and collectives from different latitudes, who conspire in the struggle against the oppression of any system of exclusion, questioning the binarism and the necrocapitalistic regimes imposed on gender, pleasure and sexuality. Learn more here.
Photo Credit: DIVAS SUDACAS, 2020. Photo by Nela Mèriguet
Moises Salazar Tlatenchi
Moises Salazar Tlatenchi is a non-binary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Tlatenchi holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tlatenchi’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, NADA, National Museum of Mexican Art, and Salon Acme. Tlatenchi’s work has been featured in publications such as The Hispanic Executive, artnet, HYPERALLERGIC, and THE LATINX PROJECT. Most recently Tlatenchi has been named one of the 2023 Breakout Artists: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers. Learn more here.
Photo Credit : Christopher Wormald
Fellowship
ALUMS
The Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship is a program designed to empower and support queer artists. Each year, a cohort of emerging artists are invited to participate in a series of professional development workshop that provide art business skills, strategic planning, peer-to-peer learning, mentorship, and community building across disciplines to create a sustainable art practice.
Applications to the 2023 –2024 Leslie-Lohman Artist Fellowship are by invitation only.
Learn more about Leslie-Lohman Fellow AlumniFellowship
ALUMS
The Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship is a program designed to empower and support queer artists. Each year, a cohort of emerging artists are invited to participate in a series of professional development workshop that provide art business skills, strategic planning, peer-to-peer learning, mentorship, and community building across disciplines to create a sustainable art practice.
Applications to the 2023 –2024 Leslie-Lohman Artist Fellowship are by invitation only.
Learn more about Leslie-Lohman Fellow Alumni