December 2025

 
 
 

FORGOTTEN LANDS 2025 Annual Report

Before the new year gets into full swing, we're taking a moment to honor all the artists, collaborators, spaces, and community members who meaningfully shaped 2025 alongside us. Amazingly we hosted 16 events that showcased 50+ artists. From our January opening at MoMA's Creativity Lab—featuring the Neo-Carib Visions film screening, blackout poetry with Yaissa Jimenez, and conversations with Simon Benjamin, Devin Osorio, and Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa—to our December gatherings during Miami Art Week, this year has been defined by intentional connection and creative exchange.

The journey in-between was rich with moments of connection: presenting Poemas de Sal y Tierra at homework gallery in Miami, leading community activations at The MET's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing reopening, curating our reference library at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and hosting the Diasporic Dialogues panel at The Shed. And we can’t forget the celebratory release of Volume 07: Poetics of Architecture at MoCADA, guided by guest editor Shameekia Shantel Johnson and featuring artists Abigail Lucien, Julian Alexander, and Kearra Amaya Gopee in conversation. Finally, in large part to you, we were able to donate over $2,000 to Hurricane Melissa relief efforts.

Thank you for being part of our journey this year! We look forward to continuing to build, imagine, and gather with you in 2026!

With love & gratitude,

The FORGOTTEN LANDS Team

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We’re hiring an Art Advisor!

We're looking for someone special to join our team—a part-time Art Advisor who's ready to help us grow. As we move into 2026, we're expanding into new territory: more art fairs, exhibitions, and opportunities to support the artists in our community. This is a chance to be part of building something from the ground up—helping shape what FORGOTTEN LANDS looks like as a pop-up gallery and ensuring our network of artists has the platform and support they deserve. If this sounds like you, or someone you know, we'd love to hear from you.

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New Film: INDIGENOUS ORIGINS Part 5: Yo Soy Loizeña

INDIGENOUS ORIGINS Part 5: Yo Soy Loizeña , featuring Dorayma Mercado (@doraymam), Mar Cruz (@29marabril), and Samuel Lind (@estudiodeartesamuellind) and set in Loíza, Puerto Rico, texplores Bomba as a form of resistance, self-expression, and spiritual resilience. Ancestral practices guide conscious ways of healing within everyday life and will continue traditions of the past into the future.

Director: Alexis C. Garcia (@lexroc)
Creative Producer: Julien Alleyne (@julien.alleyne)
DOP: Steven J. Rivera Cruz (@kruzrivera)
1st AC: Jorge Garrido (@coqui64)
2nd AC: Jovanny Gonzalez (@cinematografoprospecto)
Sound/Boom Op: Jonathan Galindo (@jonagalindo__)
Editor: Eduardo Kiki Pérez (@eduardokikiperez)
Contributor: Cory Torres Bishop (@forgottenlands.art)

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ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

January - February

  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation (International) | Deadline: January 5 Apply >>

  • Yaddo Artist Residency (New York, United States) | Deadline: January 6 Apply >>

  • Wave Farm – Media Arts Assistance Fund (New York, United States) | Deadline: January 15 Apply >>

  • Folger Shakespeare Library – Artistic Research Fellowships | Deadline: January 15 Apply >>

  • Sharpe Walentas Studio Program (New York, United States) | Deadline: January 15 Apply >>

  • Heaven Gallery Open Call 2026 (Illinois, United States) | Deadline: January 12 Apply >>

  • Sculpture Space 2027 Artist Residencies (New York, United States) | Deadline: January 15 Apply >>

  • Elastic Arts Visual Gallery Curatorial Residency 2026 (Illinois, United States) | Deadline: January 15 Apply >>

  • Black Art Summer School 2026 | Deadline: January 23 Apply >>

  • The Latinx Project at NYU: La Treintena 2026 (Online) | Deadline: February 16 Apply >>

  • Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Residency Program (Northeast Region, United States) | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>

  • small axe journal call for submissions (Online) | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>

  • Moko Magazine (Online) | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>

  • Azule Artist Residency Mountain Retreat (North Carolina, United States) | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>

Coming soon: we’re evolving how we share artist opportunities, and as part of our community, you’ll be the first to have access and try it out. Stay tuned in the year as we release this new initiative!

SUPPORT OUR MISSION BY DONATING

None of this work happens without support from people like you. If FORGOTTEN LANDS has meant something to you this year—if a publication moved you, if a conversation stayed with you, if you believe in what we're building—please consider making a donation or becoming a partner. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, every tax-deductible contribution helps us continue amplifying Caribbean voices and supporting the artists who need it most.

Curious about partnership opportunities? Contact us at hello@forgottenlandsart.com

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Cory Bishop