VisArts’ Gibbs Street Residency provides a unique opportunity for a dynamic individual artist or collaborative artist team to experiment, create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment.
Each year, we offer two six-month Gibbs Street Residencies, which include a free studio, $3,000 stipend, and a culminating solo exhibition.
It’s nice to be part of VisArts’ Studio Artist Program. I have a sense of belonging again. VisArts provides support, feedback, and guidance, and offers opportunities to connect with the public as well as other artists. Their critiques help take my work to another level and I can help them, too. It’s a caring, collaborative community.
Current Resident
Veronica Melendez
Gibbs Street Resident
Veronica Melendez is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator based in Baltimore, MD. Her work centers the afterlives of Civil War, migration, and Mesoamerican indigenous imaginaries. She is founder of La Horchata, an arts publication highlighting creatives from the Central American diaspora. She was selected for the 2018 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award for Documentarians of the American South by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, NPR, VICE, and The Brooklyn Rail among others. Her arts publication La Horchata has been exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA and the inaugural exhibition Presente! in the Molina Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She has been in residence at The Studios at Mass MoCA and most recently completed a MacDowell Fellowship. Veronica is also a full-time faculty in Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
2025
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