The Program
The Venezuela Chapter is a structured collaboration between VAEA — a New York 501(c)(3) nonprofit — and Exodus & Resilience, operating as an independent curatorial and production contractor. Together, they form a platform to document, exhibit and publicly activate contemporary Venezuelan art produced in contexts of migration, displacement and diaspora.
The problem this program addresses.
A generation of artists in diaspora
Venezuela has lost more than 20% of its population over the last decade. Among the more than 7.7 million Venezuelans living outside the country, there is an entire generation of artists, curators, educators and cultural managers whose professional ecosystem of origin was progressively dismantled. This cultural loss does not usually appear among the standard indicators of the crisis, yet it has long-term consequences for the cultural rights of the Venezuelan community and for the country's public memory.
A specific form of inequality
Artists with consolidated practices are frequently left outside the exhibition, documentation and critical circuits of their host countries. This is not a matter of talent. It is a matter of infrastructure — and of institutional mediation between dispersed artistic production and the public spaces where that work belongs.
One founding premise
Cultural rights are human rights. A community's ability to produce, document and exhibit its own artistic expression forms part of the full exercise of citizenship, even in conditions of diaspora.
What the Venezuela Chapter actually does.
01
Research & Documentation
02
Exhibition & Public Activation
03
Critical Education
04
Social Impact Measurement
01 — Research & Documentation
Professional documentation of works, processes and trajectories through interviews, technical records, professional photography, critical texts and audiovisual archive. Each entry follows contemporary documentation protocols to preserve cultural memory and critical meaning.
02 — Exhibition & Public Activation
VAEA proposes institutional exhibitions in museums, galleries and cultural centers in the U.S. and internationally. Priority venues: El Museo del Barrio (NYC), Bronx Museum, Queens Museum, Americas Society Art Gallery, ArtsWestchester and FIU Frost Art Museum Miami.
03 — Critical Education
VAEA develops educational resources for art students, teachers, universities and Venezuelan migrant communities — providing contexts for understanding how contemporary art serves as a tool to analyze migration, memory, identity and social justice.
04 — Social Impact Measurement
Program impact is measured through indicators aligned with the UN 2030 SDGs: SDG 4, 10, 11 and 16. Annual reports published publicly. First impact report covers the 2026–2027 program year.
Two entities. One transparent structure.
VAEA — Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts
Charitable operating entity and institutional administrator. Responsible for: program implementation and institutional ownership; fund administration; relations with donors and foundations; IRS and New York State compliance; institutional contracting with venues.
Exodus & Resilience — Independent Contractor
E&R (By Sibarita LLC) provides specialized professional services under MOU v4.6: program design and methodological development; intellectual architecture and curatorial direction; production, documentation and reporting services; strategic support. All services billed at documented FMV (Annex B), approved by disinterested VAEA Board members.
Artist selection protocol
All artists must meet: Venezuelan nationality or birth; minimum two cumulative years outside Venezuela; active documented practice in the preceding three years. Curatorial evaluation led by the Curatorial Director; formal approval by VAEA Board.
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