2022 artist-in-residence

Alixa García is a Colombian born, globally-raised, multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and cultural activator whose work is imbued in ritual, spirit, and deep reverence for our Great Mother, Great Lover, our Earth. She is an award-winning activist, poet, and filmmaker. She is also a professional writer, visual artist, musician, and facilitator. Her work has been published by Whit Press, AK Press, Hatchett, & Daraja Press. 

As a visual artist García has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; CA; the Kunsthal KAdE Museum, Netherlands; the Pop-Up Museum, New York, New York; and the Manifest Justice Exhibition, Los Angeles, alongside Hank Willis Thomas and Shepard Fairey, among other world-renown artists. She has created large-scale murals in New York City, Cuba, and Jamaica, and was commissioned for a large-scale mural by Tony Award-winning playwright, V (formerly Eve Ensler). García is a visual art awardee of the Global Arts Fund/Astrea, The National Association of Latino Arts & Culture Grant, The Rising Fund, and the V-Day Fund. She has been the recipient of multiple prestigious artist residencies including the Silver Arts Residency, Blue Mountain Center, and Omega Institute. She is an editorial board member of ERA Coalition & Fund for Women’s Equality.

Alixa Garcia

Alixa spent January and February of 2022 in the Apothecary at Black Hole Hollow creating a series of new work spanning visual art, new music, editing and releasing a music video (below), and beginning to develop a 13 week online journey called A Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self.