ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling hosts an annual artist in residence for artists who are committed to social engagement through their artistic practice and to working with the Museum’s primary audience of 3- to 8-year-old children. The program reflects our approach to engaging children by creating the means for them to connect with artists directly as they ask questions and discover their own artistic ideas. Children and adults will have opportunities to observe and explore the creative process with the artist as their guide. Learn more about our recent artist in residents below.
SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
NATALIE COLLETTE WOOD
2024 Artist-In-Residence
Natalie Collette Wood is a Bronx-based artist whose work is inspired by the cohabitation of natural and urban environments.
Photo by: Michael Palma Mir
C.J. CHUECA
2022 Artist-In-Residence
C.J. Chueca has lived between Lima (Peru) and New York (USA) since 2003. Chueca’s history as a perpetual immigrant (her early years found her in different cities in Mexico) has led her to explore the concepts of home, territory, transit, multicultural experiences, uprooting and solitude. Focusing on discussions about lives that are still on the road (or without route) in the streets of the world. Read more about CJ here>
DIONIS ORTIZ
Summer Residency
2021
Dionis Ortiz is a multimedia artist, community art producer, and educator who works in printmaking, collage, and sculpture. Drawing from his experiences as a child born and raised in Harlem of Dominican descent, he creates geometric, process-based works from ill-regarded and found materials to celebrate the people of the diaspora.
LINA PUERTA
Artist in Residence
2019 - 2020
Lina Puerta was born in NJ, raised in Colombia and lives and works in New York City. She earned an MS from Queens College/CUNY and is the recipient of several residencies and grants. Puerta's work has been written about in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Art News and The Brooklyn Rail among others.
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DAMIEN DAVIS
Artist in Residence
2018 - 2019
Damien Davis is a New York-based artist, born in Crowley, Louisiana and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. His practice explores historical representations of blackness by seeking to unpack the visual language of various cultures and question how these societies code/decode representations of race through craft, design and digital modes of production.
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LESLIE JIMENEZ
Artist in Residence 2017 - 2018
Leslie Jiménez is a multi-disciplinary artist, illustrator, and museum educator. Leslie's work has been exhibited in galleries in NYC, Washington DC, Barbados, Santo Domingo, SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair NY, Wheaton Arts Cultural Center, and New York Presbyterian. Learn More >
DEREK FORDJOUR
Artist in Residence 2016 - 2017
Derek is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video/film, sculpture and painting, and currently resides in Sugar Hill. His work has been featured in group shows at Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles, Sotheby's S2 Gallery in New York and Jack Bell Gallery in London.
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Photo by Michael Palma Mir
DAVID SHROBE
Artist in Residence 2015 - 2016
Artist David Shrobe, a fourth generation Harlem resident is a Hunter College M.F.A., and current Joan Mitchell Foundation Teaching Fellow, whose paintings and installations are deeply influenced by the sights and sounds of his community.
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