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This website is administered for the New York/Venezuela Chapter of Exodus & Resilience in collaboration with the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA), a New York-based 501(c)(3) public charity. Read about the VAEA & Exodus & Resilience relationship.

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Participation in Exodus & Resilience can take many forms: artistic documentation, educational collaboration, institutional partnership, diaspora giving, research, volunteering and public-program support. This page helps artists, educators, donors, community members and institutions find the right way to connect.

Ways to participate

A program built through documented relationships, not open-ended promises.

Because the chapter is in a founding-stage phase, participation is reviewed and sequenced according to curatorial fit, funding, institutional capacity, permissions and confirmed program needs.

Artists

Share your practice for review

Venezuelan artists in diaspora may contact the program team with a concise portfolio, biography and documentation context. Artist participation is reviewed through curatorial criteria and announced only when formally confirmed.

Institutions

Explore a partnership conversation

Museums, universities, cultural centers, schools and community organizations can propose educational, archival or public-program collaborations aligned with the chapter’s mission.

Educators

Connect learning and cultural memory

Educators may contact the team to discuss classroom use, artist talks, mediation resources or future learning materials once documentation is reviewed and available.

Donors

Support a defined program pathway

Donors can support the chapter through VAEA and may align their contribution with the archive, education, public programs or founding infrastructure.

Researchers

Use the program as a field of inquiry

Researchers and curators may request conversations about the archive, the observatory, cultural rights, diaspora art, migration and public memory.

Diaspora communities

Participate in public memory

Community members may connect through events, conversations, storytelling, future volunteer opportunities and diaspora giving campaigns as programming becomes confirmed.

Responsible participation

What participation does — and does not — mean at this stage.

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No automatic selection

Submitting a portfolio, proposal or inquiry does not guarantee selection, exhibition, publication or partnership. The program confirms participation only after review and documentation.

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No unconfirmed announcements

Artists, venues, grants, institutions and public activities are named only when there is formal confirmation and permission to communicate publicly.

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Clear documentation

When participation is confirmed, the program prioritizes consent, attribution, technical records, bilingual context and clear communication with participants.

What to send

Help us understand the right entry point.

Artists

Send a short biography, website or PDF portfolio, current city/country, selected images or links, and a brief note explaining how your practice relates to diaspora, memory, migration, cultural citizenship, archive or recomposition.

Institutions and educators

Send the organization name, proposed format, audience, timeline, location, funding status and the kind of collaboration you want to explore.

Donors and funders

Send your preferred area of interest — archive, education, public programs, founding support or diaspora giving — and whether you would like the institutional dossier or a conversation with the program team.

Participation is strongest when it produces public value: documented memory, educational access, institutional learning, artist visibility, community connection and responsible philanthropy.

Funding pathways

Choose the participation path that matches your role.

Participation can begin as a conversation, a contribution, a partnership, a research inquiry or a public-program collaboration. These pathways help donors and institutions find the right entry point.

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Founding Circle

Major donors and patrons who want to help establish the chapter’s core infrastructure.

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Education & Youth Impact

Support for learning resources, mediation, youth engagement and classroom-facing materials.

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Living Archive Fund

Funding for artist documentation, oral history, metadata, research and archive infrastructure.

Timeline & transparency

Follow how participation turns into documented program development.

The program journal records outreach, submissions, closed opportunities, institutional steps and public updates. It helps distinguish active possibilities from confirmed milestones.

Support

Support the chapter

Make a contribution through the support page and use the program reference when needed.

Contact

Request the dossier

Ask for institutional documentation or a conversation with the program team.

Begin the conversation

Participation starts with a clear, documented message.

Tell us who you are, how you want to participate and what kind of public value your proposal can help create.

Contact the program team