Cabin Fever? Apply to These CDMX Residencies and Escape Your Studio
If you're feeling cooped up, Mexico City delivers intense cultural saturation. Discover residencies that drop artists and curators straight into the action.
December 11, 2025
Mexico
Studio VisitMexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Israel Gómez Mares: Transformando Sedimentos
Ceramic artist Israel Gómez Mares transforms his Ciudad Juárez studio into a community hub while creating art that connects desert clay to regional identity.
March 07, 2025
Recollections of Juan Manuel Rena Niño, Juárez Portrait Painter
Patrick Kikut reflects on meeting and engaging with Juárez portrait painter, Juan Manuel Rena Niño in the early 2000s. Kikut exhibited his portraits at No Man’s Land Gallery in 2004.
March 08, 2024
NewsCollectivity + CollaborationMexicoTexas
A Mexican Tradition of Collaborative Printmaking, on Both Sides of the Border
La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in Mexico City and Familia Printshop in Dallas engage in a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. The two print shops also illustrate the power of collaboration.
July 04, 2023
Finding Water in the WestMexicoTexas
Janette Terrazas: An Artist’s Fight to Preserve Water at the Border
Janette Terrazas utilizes her artistic practice to protest against water contamination in the El Paso-Juárez binational region.
March 10, 2023
FeatureMexicoTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Accidental Beauty in Unexpected Shapes: María José Crespo, the River, and Artistic Research
Writer and artist JD Pluecker writes about the Artpace exhibition of María José Crespo and their joint trip to the border to do artistic research around Del Rio, Texas.
March 03, 2023
InterviewMexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Lorena Sosa on Lessons Learned from the Chihuahuan Desert
As a member of the inaugural cohort of La Semilla Food Center’s Chihuahuan Desert Cultural Fellowship, Juárez-based writer Lorena Sosa shares her work on the U.S.-Mexico border.
August 26, 2022
Illustrations from a Murder Capital: Alice Leora Briggs Portrays Ciudad Juárez’s Recent Dark History
Abecedario de Juárez by artist Alice Leora Briggs and photojournalist Julián Cardona is partly an illustrated glossary of narcolenguaje and partly a collection of stories from the streets.
August 19, 2022
