Core Residency
ROOTING - 2022
As Ridhi’s second year in residence continues to unfold in 2022, we will share opportunities to engage with them via our social media pages on Instagram and Facebook, along with special event announcements.
Be sure to visit Ridhi’s website at https://www.ridhidcruz.net to learn more about their creative practice.
SEEDING - 2021
We are excited to announce that Ridhi D’Cruz has been awarded a core residency. We look forward to supporting Ridhi’s multi-faceted practice as they spend time deeply connecting with the land at our rural campus in Colton, Oregon and our downtown Portland location on the North Park Blocks.
The core residency is adaptive to the invited resident, and offers the space, time, and resources needed to make new work, from concept to completion over an approximate two year duration. It is a low residency program that connects the resident to communities through partnerships and programs.
We embrace intuitive and experimental possibilities via our core values of emergence, curiosity, community, care and place. By offering long term, relational, and value aligned support, we seek to offer a residency that is co-created with the resident, in response to their evolving needs and interests. As our relationship with Ridhi unfolds, we look forward to sharing ways to connect with their practice.
ABOUT RIDHI D’CRUZ
my name is ridhi d’cruz (they/them) and i identify as a gender queer transnational Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India. i moved to Wapato Valley (Portland) in 2010. i fondly identify as a facilitator, artist and peer mentor. my life artistry is rooted in the intersections of place, healing, design and creative justice(s). i have dedicated over a decade of their life to designing community processes that cultivate liberatory & healing senses of belonging and nurture a sense of sovereignty and inter-being. thank you for your curiosity. i look forward to honoring our intersecting paths.
You can reach me at ridhidcruz@gmail.com and sign-up for my news and updates on my website.
Ridhi D’Cruz with Rory Sparks and varied dye and ink plant babies at Camp Colton, June 2021.