Current Residencies

 “Anchoring Creative Visions” is a collaborative initiative between Serpentina Arts and the University of Minnesota’s Art Department to host a series of professional development convenings for Minnesota Latinx visual artists.

"GAAF: Dance as Living Archive and Diasporic Governance" centers the Somali dance community in Minnesota and examines how Somali dance functions as a living archive—carrying memory and authority through embodied practice.

"How We Gather When the World Burns" builds on long-standing relationships with artists and activists from India and Iran, alongside ongoing efforts to cultivate community among immigrants and allies in the Twin Cities.

"Northland Digitization Project" is a grassroots team of artists, archivists, and scholar activists documenting the 30-year history of a Minneapolis-based radical print collective.

“Reversing Dissections” brings together a diverse group of artists, activists, and scholars to acknowledge, grieve, and reckon with the exploitation of marginalized bodies that has systematically operated within western medicine and its biomedical visualization.

“Where I’m From: Representing the Northside” engages the humanities, and especially the arts, as a way for residents on Minneapolis’ Northside to document and process the current moment (and the Northside’s unique circumstances within it) through representation: using seriously playful art and word-making to proclaim, “This is who I am. This is where I come from.”

"Youth at the Root" supports youth in Minneapolis Public Schools in making connections between critical theories, political education, organizing strategies, and each other, in order to navigate and transform the systems that condition their material realities.