Residencies
2025 Artist-in-Residence Program
Risolana is offering our Artist-in-Residence Program this Summer 2025! Applications are due Friday, April 4th at 11:59 PM. This residency is for artists residing in New Mexico interested in riso prints and bookmaking, although no prior experience is required. People of color are encouraged to apply. The selected artist will create work alongside Risolana's staff to produce a limited edition artist book that expands on the artist's current body of artwork and/or writing and imagines it in the form of a risograph printed book. They will also lead a public workshop centered around the themes and processes of their artwork in the Summer of 2025. The residency will culminate in a final exhibition in Fall 2025, which will include the sale of their artist books. This residency comes with a $1,000 honorarium, and revenue from the sale of artist books will be split with Risolana.
What You Get
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Three months of studio access available from May-July 2025. Artists should expect to be available for scheduled in-person meetings from May 2025 to November 2025.
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Artist-in-residence will work closely with Risolana staff to get their artist book printed and bound.
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Select the next drum color that will be added to Risolana’s palette.
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Half paid up front, half paid upon completion. Artist groups will be responsible for splitting the honorarium themselves.
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Revenue from 100 copies of the artist books will be split 50:50 with Risolana.
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Culminating exhibition alongside sale of artist books in November 2025.
What We Ask
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Develop a unique riso-printed artist book investigating themes in artistic practice (up to 100 copies).
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Lead a workshop centered around themes in your work with support from Risolana staff.
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Install and be present for the culminating exhibition in November 2025.
Application Questions
Please share your concept for your artist book. This book should draw on your current body of work or a concept you have been developing. (500 words or less - 3800 characters)
Why are you interested in making a book? (Max 300 words or 2000 characters)
Y or N - Do you identify as a Person of Color - including those who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx and/or Asian?
What is your connection to New Mexico? This application is open to all artists residing in the state of New Mexico. (500 characters)
Provide us with a link to introduce us to you and/or your work (e.g. web portfolio, Instagram).
We ask that you are available for weekly pre-scheduled in-person meetings and studio days between May-July 2025 and pre-scheduled in-person meetings during book production from Sept-Nov 2025. You also need to be present for the final show in November. :D Will this work for you? If not, please explain.
Risolana Artist-In-Residence 2024:
Purchase the book here.
Sublime Hallucinations
By Ray Kim
Date: November 15th, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Casa Barelas - 1024 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Self Tattooing Performance: 7:30 pm, 10-15 mins duration. *Mask required during performance.
Ray Kim is a working tattoo artist in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In “Sublime Hallucinations” Ray shares her experience with chronic pain and illness, exploring it through a split lens- academic and autobiographical. Ray posits that tattooing, a form of “intentional pain” can act as a type of self-reclamation, or medicinal faith, that is capable of bridging the sensations of the body and the stroke of the needle to the transcendental. Ray breaks this barrier through her own dreamy analysis and extensive research, which bends the academic to the conventions of the diary, and the language of the essay to the rhythm of poetry.
Ray Kim
Ray Kim is a multidisciplinary artist, specializing in tattooing. With over 10 years of experience as a self-taught tattooer, she has traveled extensively throughout the US and abroad. Her artistic practice revolves around themes of identity and environment. She identifies as a Koreaña, embodying the unique cultural blend of being a first-generation Korean American, who grew up in Albuquerque. Recently, Kim’s work was showcased in Tattoo You: A New Generation of Artists, a publication by Phaidon Press.
Instagram: @venusofchillendorf
Risolana Artist-In-Residence 2023:
Join us for the book launch and exhibition of
Rezbians
By Carmen Selam
Opening: Nov 10th 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Closing: Dec 1nd 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: fourteenfiteen gallery
1415 4th St SW Albuquerque, NM 87102
Cost: Free!
Growing up on the reservation, Carmen Selam lacked access to media that reflected her experiences as an Indigenous Queer woman. In "Rezbians," (40 pages, edition of 200) Selam has written and illustrated a slice-of-life art comic that delves into the contemporary lives of two characters navigating young love on the rez. "Rezbians" is more than just a comic; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and love, a reflection of personal experiences, and love of the self. Selam's aim for "Rezbians" is to create visibility of the everyday realities of Indigenous Queer/Two-Spirit people and the relationships they inhabit.
Carmen Selam
Carmen Selam was born and raised on the Yakama Reservation located in Washington State. She is an enrolled member of the 14 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and is also of Comanche descent. Selam attended the Oregon College of Art and Craft located in Portland, Oregon prior to graduating with her BFA in studio arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Selam is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates paintings, prints, and installations. Selam currently lives and works on her ancestral homelands on the Yakama Reservation.
Website: www.carmenselam.com
Instagram: @yakamanche
The Risolana Artist-in-Residence book program is supported by the AHS Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation, donations, and profits from client based projects.
Risolana Artist-In-Residence 2022:
Gifts I Didn’t Know Were Gifts
By Lena Kassicieh
Opening: Nov 11th 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Closing: Dec 2nd 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: ALPACA/ fourteenfiteen gallery
1415 4th St SW Albuquerque, NM 87102
“Gifts I Didn’t Know Were Gifts” is the culmination of work created during Risolana’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence Program. The Risolana residency explores meditations on community, dialogue, and reflection and provides artists with a stipend, access and technical support with the risograph machine, and a dedicated team to see their project come to light.
Lena Kassicieh
Lena Kassicieh is a Palestinian-American anthropologist, ceramicist, and multidisciplinary artist. Having lived between the deserts of New Mexico and Jordan, she completed her Masters of Science degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her work is multidisciplinary and experimental in its nature, including but not limited to digital illustrations, ceramics, collages, sketchbooks, acrylic paintings, and photographs.
Lena’s risograph book is an ode to the things we inherit from our families; 'gifts we didn't realize were gifts', the meaning we glean from stories, recipes, memories, and tangible items, and the stories they tell. Lena's family was forced to leave their home in Jerusalem, Palestine, and moved to Jordan, eventually settling all around the world in search of new places to make 'home'. This book is the culmination of the collection of all these inherited gifts – tangible and intangible – that piece together what her Palestinian identity means to her.
Website: www.lenakassicieh.com
Instagram: @lena.kassicieh
This project is supported by the Fulcrum Fund, a grant program of 516 ARTS made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation.Risolana’s 2022 Artist-in-Residence
Gifts I Didn’t Know Were Gifts
by Lena Kassicieh
