Our Story

The Temporary Stay Residency was created with the goal of compiling a collective of visiting artists interested in challenging conversation, collaboration and community initiatives. These intense series of conversations and projects help bridge the gap between art and life.Local Artists in the Central Florida and surrounding areas will have the opportunity to learn the screen printing process which merges painting and printmaking to create an edition unique to the residency. This edition will be included in a residency portfolio that may be displayed in galleries and other venues.Visiting Artists will have the chance to connect with the local community, create a print specific to the residency and explore ideas in public art spaces. The Visiting Artist Residency covers food, transportation during the residency and stay for the duration of the project(s). Artists must provide their own materials and transport to and from the residency.

Our Artists

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KillJoy

VISITING ARTIST

Kill Joy is an artist based out of Texas and Mexico. She creates murals and prints detailing her heritage as a Filipino-American. The themes found in her work call for the revitalization of indigenous cultures and a reverence for the land. She is the inaugural recipient of the “Temporary Stay Art Residency” founded by Jacoub Reyes at the end of 2019.Find more of her work at www.joyland.space and on Instagram: @kill.joy.mallHer time at the residency consisted of the creation of a three-day mural “Decomposers” (left), participation at FusionFest printing with a tortilla press and completing a limited-edition screen print.

Thiang Uk

VISITING ARTIST

Thiang Uk is a painter based out of Baltimore, Maryland. He creates ethereal scenescapes that blur the lines of representation and abstraction. He depicts the blending of colors and tradition through his own immigrant journey from Burma to America. These cultural collisions offer a palette from which he draws personal emotional responses associated with loss, assimilation, misplacement, and fear which are counteracted with resilience and strong sense of being. Disparate images and patterns clash and then bond together to create a convergence of figure and landscape. Body becomes background and vise-versa.Find more of his work at www.thiangukart.com and on Instagram: @thiangukHis time at the residency consisted of the creation of a limited variable edition screen print entitled “Mirage” (pictured left).

Mär Martinez

LOCAL ARTIST

Mär Martinez is a figurative painter and illustrator based out of Orlando, Florida. She explores themes of femme identity in the context of trans-culturally enforced power dynamics.Find more of her work at www.marmartinezart.com and on Instagram: @meatvoidHer time at the residency consisted of the creation of a limited edition screen print.

Anamaria Romero Acosta

LOCAL ARTIST

Anamaria Romero Acosta is a multidisciplinary artist based out of Orlando, Florida. Her meditative works use the body, mind and audience as key roles in her interactive performances and installations. She believes that if we become sensitive to what is happening within us, we can also extend that sensitivity outwards into a more conscious way of living. This place of reflection has the potential to help question and change behaviors we find “normal”.Find more of her work at www.anamariaromero.com and on Instagram: @anamariaromeroacostaHer time at the residency consisted of the creation of a limited edition screen print.

Ivan Riascos

LOCAL ARTIST

Ivan Riascos is a conceptual artist based in Central Florida. His interest in highlighting personal, political and social histories informs his work and creates specific perspectives. He holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from
The University of Central Florida."I define myself as a visual anthropologist, trying to understand human behavior within our culture, then using visual elements that are open-ended to start a dialog and comment on our culture. There is something about being a communicator and a researcher; analyzing and studying, working in these modes helps me understand and continuously shape my process, reaffirming that life is continually changing and evolving."Find more of his work at www.whitelightbulb.com and on Instagram: @artnthinkerHis time at the residency consisted of the creation of a limited edition screen print titled "Nov. 3-7, 2020".

Sapphire Servellon

LOCAL ARTIST

Sapphire Servellon, also know as ArtAArdvark, is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist and curator from Central Florida. Her work is a collection of psychedelic and post-conscious expressions. Through an in-depth analysis of her spiritual world, she attempts to bring a sense of beauty and wonder into being. Advancing through levels of visual delight, each piece is a therapeutic moment in dissecting complex lessons from her higher self.Find more of her work at on Instagram: @artaardvarkHer time at the residency consisted of the creation of a limited edition screen print titled "Woman in Waiting".

Lyandrea Martinez

LOCAL ARTIST

Puerto Rican artist Lyandrea creates art for another form of meditation and expression. Early adulthood left her spiraling in emotion. Spirituality and creative flow saved her. Her smooth brushstrokes and confident line work evolved through her tattooing practices. Self-taught and self-sufficient, she guided herself to discovering her identity. After 7 years of practicing art a style unfolded. Life poured leading an expressionism approach with mediums of oil, acrylic, oil pastels and graphite. Her current work focuses on environmental change and various brutalities, in a series called "Save Mother". This series was created back in 2018 when she laid in bed questioning how she can help save the planet.Find more of her work at www.sacredhandsstudio.com/ and on Instagram: @sacredhandsstudioHer time at the residency consisted of the creation of a limited edition screen print titled "".

Our Founder

Jacoub Reyes is a printmaker and installation artist based out of Orlando, Florida. He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking. He went on to study under Ke Francis, co-founder of Hoopsnake Press. Reyes carves highly detailed large-scale allegorical woodcuts based on the acculturation of Caribbean culture. He transforms found wood and materials to bring light to social issues regarding cultural identity, hierarchy and capitalism. His process of salvaging discarded materials mirrors how he re-imagines a system that does not exclude black and brown people and instills value to those cast aside. Reyes’ latest series explores the degradation of our planet, interwoven with how Caribbean culture embraces holistic medicines, rituals, and beliefs. He believes that to collectively move forward, we must examine what our ancestors did to survive and flourish.Reyes is a recipient of the The Pew Collective Grant, Allies in Arts Grant, United States Artists Grant, Immerse Artist Grant, Awesome Grant, Southern Graphics International Grant and J.R. Hopes Scholarship. His work is held in several public and private collections including MassArt, Morgan Conservatory, UCF, Frontera Galeria Urbana, The City of Orlando's Public Art Collection and Hoopsnake Press. He has exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally. Notable exhibitions include the International Print Center New York, Umbra: New Prints for a Dark Age juried by Alison Saar, Arte Insurgente/ Tres Gatos Press Residency and installation in Guadalajara, Mexico, Southern Graphics Conference International's El Encuentro beach installation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and PaperWest juried by Willie Cole.In December 2019, he hosted his first artist for the Temporary Stay Residency. The residency hosts marginalized artists who vary in technique and message. To date, he has had over six artists from all over the nation participate.

Become a Resident

Apply to be a 2021 Resident
Please fill out the form below if you are interested in a temporary stay. A $25 non-refundable processing fee is required for all applications. Once all materials are received you will be contacted within 5-7 days.