A monthlong creative incubation for Black artists exploring healing and liberation in their work.

Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica
May 1 – 31, 2026
Public Performance: May 23–24 at the Black Abundance Festival

Rooted in the lush Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, this monthlong experience offers four Black artists the rare gift of sacred time, creative freedom, and radical rest. Together, we cultivate a space where art becomes a portal for healing, visioning, and liberation. This is for any Black artist exploring healing or liberation in their arts practice.

This is your invitation to exhale. To create without urgency. To be deeply supported in your process.

What’s Included

• A fully funded 4-week residency in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica

• Private housing in a jungle-meets-sea setting

• Artist stipend for meals, materials, and wellness

• Roundtrip travel covered from your home city

• Access to movement sessions, cultural experiences, and healing spaces

• A culminating performance or offering at the Black Abundance Festival, May 23–24

Who Should Apply

Black artists of all disciplines—visual art, performance, sound, writing, movement, ritual, film, and more—who are:

• Exploring themes of healing, ancestry, freedom, or transformation

• Interested in slowing down, reconnecting with nature, and deepening their creative practice

• Excited to build community with fellow artists and participate in a shared public offering

Whether your art is in process, conceptual, or emergent, Black Breath welcomes visionaries who honor creativity as a sacred act of resistance and rebirth.

Why Costa Rica?

Puerto Viejo is a land rich in Afro-Caribbean heritage, biodiversity, and ancestral magic. To host this residency here is a commitment to global Black connection, to diasporic healing, and to building sanctuaries beyond borders.

This is a place where your breath, body, and brilliance can stretch wide.

Applications Open October 1st, 2025
Questions? nana@blackabundance.world