STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

As we emerged from the pandemic in 2021, we hosted groups of artists who—as a safety measure—limited their community interaction. Three such groups came in the first session of 2022, working on a film, a music album, and an e-book. Following that, we celebrated Sacatar’s first twenty years in operation by inviting back to Bahia eight artists who had their residencies during our first ten years.

We wish to thank our 2022 institutional partners. In August and September, we hosted two artists in partnership with Pro-Helvetia of Switzerland. In response to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, we also coordinated with Artists at Risk to bring to Sacatar the Russian dancer and capoeira practitioner, Dasha Sedova, who fled Russia during the first week of the war. In November and December, we hosted five writers from the state of Bahia in partnership with Funda çã o Cultural do Estado da Bahia. And once again, we engaged in an exchange of artists with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California, USA, hosting two Taiwanese dancers while the Brazilian artist Rodrigo Bueno participated in a successful “virtual residency” with other Djerassi artists from around the world.

We are pleased to announce two new institutional partners for 2023.

We thank former Fellow Amara Tabor-Smith who coordinated a long-dreamt partnership with Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA. She and A-lan Hart of Stanford will bring a group of graduate students for a five-week intensive residency, culminating at the Festa da Boa Morte in Cachoeira, Bahia. Boa Morte is a sisterhood formed by elderly black women in the 1840s who bought each other’s freedom and who, under the cloak of Catholicism, maintain to this day religious practices their ancestors brought from Africa.

The Fondation des Artistes has entered into a three-year partnership in which Sacatar will annually host two artists from France. We thank former Fellow Pierre David through whose efforts this Agreement came to fruition.

In addition, Sacatar acknowledges with gratitude the generous donations of Anonymous, Fran Siegel, Gerald Cyrus, J Michael Walker, John Keene, Karen Ostrom, Laurie Lyons, Liz Keim, Maria Tuerlings, Mitchell Loch, Philip Boehm, Stephanie Griffin and Taylor Van Horne.