Artpace, a nonprofit residency program in San Antonio, has named Laura Veles Drey, Anita Fields, and Lorena Molina as its Spring 2025 Artists-in-Residence.
This season’s artists were selected by Jami Powell, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Ms. Powell is a citizen of the Osage Nation and holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on American Indian expressive forms through an interdisciplinary lens. In January 2025, the Hood Museum will present Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), an exhibition exploring the narrative practice of Chemehuevi photographer Cara Romero, curated by Ms. Powell.
The resident artists will begin their time at Artpace on January 27, 2025. A welcome dinner will be held on Thursday, January 30, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Exhibitions of the work created during the residency will open on Thursday, March 20, and will be on view through July 13. Learn more about the artists below, via biographies provided by Artpace.
Laura Veles Drey, Anita Fields, and Lorena Molina
Laura Veles Drey is a visual artist born, raised, and based in Houston, Texas. Her artwork, writing, and performances are rooted in experiences with identity, histories, and generational storytelling of home and belonging. She explores the complexities of race, class, labor, geography, government, and economics. Ms. Drey holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA (Honors) from the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. In 2019, her project Unsettled Space — by Way of Crops received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund Grant. She has participated in residencies at the Arquetopia Foundation and International Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2019, was an Artist on Site at the Asia Society Texas Center in 2020/21, and held an artist residency at Poor Farm Experiment Research Residency: Living In The Play, Manawa, Wisconsin in 2024.
Anita Fields (born in Oklahoma) is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist and citizen of the Osage Nation. Her sculptures of clay, textile, and installation explore the intricacies of cultural influences at the intersections of balance and chaos. Her sculptures have been featured in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Counterpublic 2023 St. Louis Triennial; Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics at the Hood Museum; Hearts of Our People at the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Art for A New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950’s to Now at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Ms. Fields’ work can be found in collections, such as the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, the Museum of Art and Design, New York City, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and the Heard Museum, Arizona. She is a 2017-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship alum. Ms. Fields was named a 2021 National Endowment of the Arts Heritage Fellow and received a 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman award. In 2022 she received a Francis J. Greenburger award.
Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. She was an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media in the School of Art at the University of Houston and is the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a community space and gallery that supports and highlights BIPOC artists. Through photography, video, performance, and installation, she explores identity, intimacy, pain, and how we witness the suffering of others. Her work interrogates relationships and their formation as political acts guided by negotiations of power and privilege.
Ms. Molina received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2015 and BFA from California State University, Fullerton, in 2012. She has been a recipient of the Diversity of Views and Experiences fellowship, The Christopher Cardozo Fellowship, (two) Truth and Reconciliation grant from Artswave, The Idea Fund grant, and The Kala Art Institute fellowship. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at venues such as the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City; the Southeast Museum of Photography in Dayton Beach, Florida; Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida; The Armory Show in New York; The Beijing Film Academy; and all over the piazzas of Florence, Italy.
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