Paseo Project’s 2024 Artist in Residence lineup announced
Join throughout the summer for workshops, installations and performances
THE PASEO PROJECT HAS announced the full lineup of artists for their 2024 Artist in Residence Program. The Artist in Residence Program brings artists from all over the world to Taos to work with our community on a variety of public art projects. This program is an opportunity for working artists to activate their projects within the Taos landscape, while exposing our community to new technologies, processes and ideas.
Starting this June and running through September, the Artist in Residence Program has invited three artists to activate Taos during their individual four-week residencies.
The Paseo Project’s Artist in Residence Program is generously sponsored by Revolt Gallery and Kathy Sanders.
Ben Allanoff | June 2024
An artist based in Joshua Tree, California, Ben works in a variety of media, with a particular focus on large-scale, outdoor art projects that engage the public as collaborators and participants. His projects are designed to connect people to one another and to the natural world. His experience creating public art projects in California, across the U.S., in Mexico and in Spain will inform the “Rio Fernando Gathering Place” Project (RFGP). In collaboration with community partners at Taos Land Trust, Allenoff will be creating (RFGP), a sculptural installation of locallysourced natural materials. Taos community members are encouraged to participate in all aspects of the project, both the process and the product, by drawing people into the Rio Fernando Park to connect with nature and with one another, reinforcing a sense of shared stewardship for land and community. Additional educational and community-building experiences will be integrated into the project.
June 29 | Community Gathering | Taos Land Trust’s Rio Fernando Park
The community is encouraged to join at Taos Land Trust’s Rio Fernando Park, 410 La Posta Road, Taos on Saturday, June 29. Artist in Residence Ben Allanoff will be on-site sharing his culminating installation created in collaboration with community members. Other events and happenings to be announced soon. For more information, visit paseoproject.org/residencies. Rica Maestas | July 22–Aug. 18, 2024 Rica is a Burqueña artist and arts worker from Albuquerque, New Mexico. During her time in Taos, Rica will be developing and sharing a series of curse-breaking performances documented with photo, video, and sound. Rooted in regional history, folklore, medicine, and ecology, but with clear global resonances, these actions attempt to find an aesthetic way out of what Audre Lorde calls “the Master’s Tools,” or pervasive communicative patterns born from domination. Rica states, “The goal of my artistic practice is nurturing spaces where no one has to be whole, where there is no need to justify your existence or have your sh*t together. Where you can be intimate like a dog, with co-presence and gesture alone. So I make little treasures, gifts, and offerings ... and rituals that fail. Inspired by home, loneliness, hybridity, and misunderstanding, my socially-engaged projects, performances, paintings and assemblages are invitations into dreamy and emotionally-demanding spaces, surreal portals to hold each other from afar.”
July 22 - Aug. 18 | A Series of Weekly Performances | Revolt Gallery
The community is encouraged to join at Revolt Gallery, 222 Paseo del Pueblo Norte in Taos and other partnering art spaces in the production and sharing of a series of performance pieces created by Rica while in Taos. Full schedule to be announced closer to the residency. For more information, visit paseoproject.org/residencies. Dante Biss-Grayson | September 2024
A veteran and Native American from Osage Nation, Dante explores new directions in Native American art and fashion, utilizing classical methods to develop a new contemporary vision. Dante strives to create artwork that continues the tradition of contemporary Native Art, while pushing the boundaries of varying mediums, such as painting, holographic sculpture, poetry and fashion design. Dante will be sharing an extension of his work presented at PASEO 2023, “Digital Spirit Dancers, Inter-Tribal Pow-Wow Holographic Installation.” During this four-week residency, Dante will share the production process and concepts behind this work.
Details on public events, workshops and happenings to be announced closer to the residency. For more information, visit paseoproject.org/residencies.