Community Arts Fellowship
In its second generation, TCA’s Community Arts Fellowship champions artists in further development of a work or project that centers community. With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, TCA, Harwood Museum or Art and Taos Land Trust each support a selected project. The 2026 cohort includes c. huilo c., Carol Padberg and Rio Hondo Artists’ Residency.
Paid fellowships include a materials budget, access to venues, facilities, and equipment, and administrative and marketing support from partnering organizations.
The fellows will present several public programs from June through December. Check TCA’s calendar for future events and opportunities to connect with the fellows.
2026 FELLOWS
c. huilo c.
Tales of a Jaguar Magician
c. huilo c. is an interdisciplinary artist working across immersive installation, experimental cinema, theater, mask-based performance, projection, fusion puppetry, and sculptural environments.
Tales of a Jaguar Magician is an installation-performance and theatrical adaptation fusing articulated masks and hybrid marionette performance, spoken and incantatory text, projection, movement, and sculptural staging. c. huilo c. will offer workshops and performances at TCA.
Carol Padberg
The KINetic Garden
Carol Padberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose work brings together craft, agriculture and community. As an artist, farmer, writer and researcher, her initiatives explore resiliency through poetic intervention and pragmatic engagement.
The KINection Garden at the Taos Land Trust is a living artwork that builds soil, provides ecological art materials to the community, and helps human participants reconnect with the web of life through self-guided walks, a children’s playscape, makers’ workshops, and public gatherings that support the regenerative lifeways present in Northern New Mexico.
Zacariah Bigbee, Anaka Weiss-Jones, Athena Dunleavy
Rio Hondo Artists’ Residency
Rio Hondo Artists’ Residency (RHAR) is an annual dance-based artistic residency program designed to forge connections: to the land, to our culture, and between people.
Zachariah Bigbee approaches art like a river that stretches from pre-history into the distant future; what we do upstream affects every moment after that. This is why he uses his deep knowledge of ancient traditions as a guide to create work that reveals our best possible future.
Anaka Weiss-Jones seeks to understand perspectives of spirituality, religion, the earth, and humanity through conversations and research.
Athena Dunleavy’s work for the Rio Hondo Artists’ Residency explores storytelling, memory, and conversation through dance as ritual.
RHAR will host a series of performances and workshops in June and July at Harwood Museum of Art.
This project is, in part, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
