Forge Project
Confluence: International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency
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Eligibility: Confluence is shaped with the intention of convening an international cohort of Native writers from across diverse spatial and cultural contexts from Indigenous communities throughout shared saltwater, continents, and archipelagoes. This is inclusive of writers and thinkers beyond the context of North America. We envision the reach of this residency as global and the cohort will be selected with attention to a collaborative whole. We recognize that there are multiple forms of community-affirmed relationships and Indigenous governance but remain accountable to lived practices of kinship, cultural belonging, and sovereignty. Recently discovered or distant Native ancestry, absent ongoing community relations, or claiming a community that does not claim an applicant does not qualify an individual as Indigenous for the purpose of this residency. As an extension of Forge Project’s commitment to support Native leadership in the arts and culture broadly, we choose to center applicants whose practice benefits collective or community-centered work.
Forge Project is pleased to announce an open call for applications to Confluence: International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency, led Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini), Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project, and Léuli Eshrāghi (Tagata Sāmoa), Curator of Indigenous Practices at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.
Participants in this collaborative residency will develop texts, share in community-based mentorship, and participate in reciprocal exchange informed by the breadth of global Indigenous art criticism and place-based philosophies.
The residency will take place in-person over two weeks from October 12 to October 26, 2025, at Forge Project, located on the unceded homelands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck in New York.
Applications should be submitted as a single PDF to by Friday, April 25 at 11:59 PM ET, and include:
• A resume or CV of relevant community-based, creative, publishing and/or professional experience (1 page maximum)
• A statement of relationality and intention for joining the cohort (2 page maximum)
• A writing sample (4 page maximum, both published or unpublished writing in Indigenous and colonial languages [with parallel and/or translated texts] will be accepted)
Applications will be assessed by Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Léuli Eshrāghi, and session leaders belonging to Indigenous communities throughout shared saltwater, continents, and archipelagoes, who recognize that there are multiple forms of community-affirmed relationships and Indigenous governance.
The residency is intended for a cohort of six people from international Indigenous contexts hosted at Sylvan Motor Lodge with workshop sessions and shared meals held at Forge Project, located on the unceded homelands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck in New York.
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