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Halcyon Arts Lab (2017-2021)

From 2017-2021, residential Halcyon Arts Lab Fellowships provided support and resources to emerging artists working on projects addressing issues of social justice, civic engagement, and community building. The residencies included rent-free housing, studio space, a stipend, skill building programming, exhibition opportunities, and access to a network of collectors, curators, and other experts.

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Featured Fellows

  • Georgia Saxelby

    Georgia Saxelby creates interactive installations, including sculptural objects and audience-driven performances to investigate ritual traditions and sacred spaces in celebration of feminine mythologies, women-specific traditions and contemporary issues of gender and space. Her project seeks to reveal women history and activate traditional craft, architectures and ceremonies within the wider cultural landscape. Saxelby’s multidisciplinary art practice investigates…

  • Halim Flowers

    Halim A. Flowers was arrested at the age of 16 and sentenced as an adult to two life sentences in DC. His experiences as a child in the adult prison system was filmed in the Emmy award winning documentary ‘Thug Life In DC’. In the year of 2005, he started his own publishing company SATO Communications,…

  • Jessica Valoris

    Jessica Valoris is a multidisciplinary installation artist. Inspired by Afrofuturism, metaphysics, and historical memory, Jessica builds installations and experiences that are sacred, intentional, and activated. Weaving together sound collage, painting, sculpture, and facilitated ritual, Jessica creates portals: immersive environments that serve as a catalyst for collective healing and create space for affirmative self-expression and re-definition.…

  • Hoesy Corona

    Hoesy Corona is a multi-disciplinary artist and arts organizer creating videos and soundscapes for his visual and performance project Alie[N]ation, which investigates and dismantles alien tropes, xenophobic language, and the archetype of the scapegoat. Participants wear colorful garments fitted to the human body, which create otherworldly experiences as the wearer is simultaneously visible and invisible –…

  • Antonius Bui

    Antonius Tin Bui (they/them) is a queer, gender-nonbinary, Vietnamese American artist who is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MIC/A). Since graduating from MIC/A, they have been  awarded fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute, Tulsa Artists Fellowship, and Halcyon Arts Lab. They are currently interested in complicating Vietnamese history…

By the People

Complementing our Arts Lab Fellowships, Halcyon began By the People in 2018 as a free, city-wide arts and dialogue festival, which eventually evolved into a flexible platform for community-based arts programming and initiatives. In two years, the festival drew over 60,000 visits to larger-than-life art installations and events across Washington, D.C. and the broader DC-area, and in 2020, a virtual By The People x Monochrome Collective Art Fair showcased work from 50 working artists from the DMV, offering artist talks and other event programming in addition to an online store.

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