Creative Exchange Lab

Biannual artist residency Creative Exchange Lab (CXL) was founded in 2015 and has continued with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. CXL was designed to acknowledge and advance the increasingly hybridized discourse between contemporary performance and visual art fields and to foster in-depth, cross-disciplinary research and exchange opportunities for artists.

Spring 2022 artists included Leon Finley (Seattle, WA), bart fitzgerald (Portland, OR), Moonyeka (Seattle, WA), Anh Vo (New York, NY), and Fox Whitney (Seattle, WA). The residency took place between Portland and Caldera Arts in Sisters, Oregon. Caldera has been our longtime host and retreat space for CXL, and we were grateful to spend ten beautiful days there.
In September 2022 we hosted another cohort during TBA:22. Princess Bouton (Portland, OR), Emily Jones (Portland, OR), hannah krafcik (Portland, OR), Satpreet Kahlon (Seattle, WA), Harun Morrison (London, England), and Pallavi Sen (Berkshires, MA) spent 11 days in Portland, experiencing the festival and enjoying strong connectivity with each other, followed by a week at Caldera.