Catwalk Art Residency

The desveladas collective brings together poet Sheila Maldonado, journalist Macarena Hernández, and fiction/nonfiction writer Nelly Rosario in a collaborative exploration of memory, migration, ancestry, and place. During their residency, the trio will continue developing a sequel to “Arbographies/Arbografías,” originally anthologized in A Mouth Holds Many Things (Fonograf Editions, 2024), edited by Jyothi Natarajan and Dao Strom. The original fotoessay presented a series of “tree dispatches” from New York City and deep-south Texas, weaving together ancestral stories rooted in the United States, Honduras, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. Their new project, “Arbographies II: Sky Below, Roots Above,” will continue these arboreal conversations from the Hudson Valley, exploring themes of fire, water, land, and migration.

Affiliation: Columbia