The Legacy Bearers is a Dreamers-in-Residence is a multi-dimensional and disciplinary experimental archival residency. The LB Dreamers Residency is a think tank that explores dream world-building through rest, playful imagination, creative expression, artivism, service, storytelling, legacy building, solution strategizing, cultural preservation/exchange, and ancestral practice that envisions and builds sustainable foundations toward Indigenous sovereignty and collective liberation.

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 The Legacy Bearers DIR project that provides local and international artists of all creative disciplines with inspiring independent time and space to develop new, meaningful, and socially challenging work that fosters personal and collective liberation. Through residency plans, intuitive inspiration, research, and archiving, resident artists will explore any creative form(s) of choice to build artworks, experimental projects, or workshops that bring those dreams to life as a bridge toward personal and collective liberation, intergenerational bridging, activism, and legacy building.

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This Dreamers-in-Residence project centralizes world-building, creativity, self-exploration, lineage research, social activism, migration ancestral mapping, and intercultural exchange that integrates with our visions of creative solutions to ending systematic injustice.

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While providing artists with the space to recharge, explore, research, question, envision, create, and archive, resident artists will have the opportunity to research (in their way) and develop creative works that unpack the intersectional relationships between their ancestry, spirituality, culture, personal discovery, liberation, and historical relations with what they learn from and with the powerful local communities in Oaxaca, Mexico.

 

End of Residency

Resident Artists will have the choice of (1) exhibiting their work, (2) building a socially involved community-centered workshop or event, (3) archiving liberation research for others to continue during their residency term, or (4) developing a sustainable creative project that continues after their residency period.

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Our Mission​

• To provide local and international creatives with the space and time to dream, research, bridge, and create our own liberation.

• To explore the critical question, what does a ‘liberation world’ look & feel like? and develop research and work that center on our dream and world/legacy-building.

• To not only dream but create work that expresses it, personally and towards collective liberation.

• To offer creative dreamers a wholistic experience to explore, rest, learn, reflect and make meaningful connections with the local community.

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Target Creative Professional Fields

Community Artists, Healing Practitioners, Educators, Architects, Chefs/Community Cooks, Visual Artists, Builders, Writers, Movement Shakers, Anthropologists, Photographers, Architects, Musicians, Tattoo Artists, Scientists, Archivists, Farmers from all over the world.  Creative media is not limited.

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Recruitment Time

Application is open throughout the year, and the resident time is agreed upon between The Indigo House and the Resident Artist.

 

Resident Period

Currently: 2-weeks to 1-month which is agreed upon between The Indigo House and the Resident Artist.

with option for additional 5 weeks; contingent on agreement.

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