Creative Residencies and Immersive Experiences
At Hotel Papel LLC, we invite you to explore our unique creative residencies and immersive experiences celebrating sister cities.
Here, you can explore, unleash your creativity, and engage with fellow artists in the middle of the Atlantic, inspiring innovation and collaboration.
Southcoast Creatives Embark on INAUGURAL Sister City Residency
Meet the Six Artists Bringing a Bit of the Southcoast to Faial
In January, six talented artists from the Southcoast will bring their unique visions to Faial for the first sister city arts residency. Their diverse practices—from painting and film to ceramics, writing, mixed media, and photography—reflect a deep connection to community, heritage, and place. This residency offers a rare chance to explore creative exchange between Massachusetts and the Azores, inspiring new work rooted in culture and environment.
The Power of Creative Exchange with Hotel Papel
At Hotel Papel, we believe that art can build bridges. Through immersive, cross-disciplinary residencies, we connect creatives from Greater New Bedford, Fall River, and the Azores, nurturing collaborations that are as impactful as they are enduring. Our programs span visual arts, theater, music, filmmaking, writing, and design—fostering bold new work that celebrates cultural connection.
✨What to Expect✨
Explore. Tour of the island with lots of conversation, drawing, and/or writing to help you find your inspiration for the week.
Make art.
There will be a community studio ready for you. You will have 24/7 access. But if you need to revisit a location, we will bring you where you need to be.
Networking. We will meet local artists and artisans, visit studios, host an art talk, and break bread together.
Exhibit. At the end of our stay there will be an exhibition with works in progress and completed works if available.
Part 2. To make this a true exchange, there will be a residency in the Southcoast for artists from the Azores. It will be a similar process, ending with an exhibition of their works-in-progress AND completed works from this cohort and experience.
The following residency in Faial will include completed works from the Southcoast residency. The conversation continues. It overlaps, and it invites us all to stay engaged.
Join us in shaping a future where creativity, culture, and community are deeply intertwined.
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