Artist in Residency / Workshop Opportunity with Guillermo Gómez Pena and La Pocha Nostra

The Institute, in collaboration with Columbia College Chicago’s Critical Encounters Initiative and other partners is pleased to announce that Guillermo Gomez-Pena will be an Artist-in-Residence during Fall 2009 and Spring 2010. As the main component of the residency, the group will lead an intensive artist workshop on campus that incorporates and challenges ideas of race, gender, faith, and boundaries. Inspired by the past work of La Pocha Nostra, the project aims to offer participants a dynamic mentorship workshop opportunity, initiated and developed over several months and culminating in a public presentation in Spring 2010.

Applications are now available for the intensive artist workshop. This is an amazing, but very limited-space opportunity. Applications are due September 23 and will be evaluated by a selection committee made up of the co-presenting organizations. 20 participants will be chosen and notified by October 9. Applicants must be available for all workshop days (October 23-30, 2009).

Please email institutewomengender@colum.edu for an application. You may direct questions or additional application requests to Dia Penning, Associate Director for Civic Engagement, Center for Teaching Excellence at dpenning@colum.edu.