City of Santa Monica Artist-In-Residence
I’m honored to share that I’ve been selected by the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division’s studio program as one of their 2025-2026 Artists-In-Residence at the Camera Obscura Art Lab in Palisades Park.
Beginning this December, I’ll spend fourteen weeks working in a studio overlooking the Pacific, right by the Santa Monica Pier.
This opportunity means more than studio time. Each resident is invited to lead free public workshops and share their creative process with the community—embodying the belief that art is not made in isolation, but through connection, reflection, and ceremony.
Faith-Ann Young
City of Santa Monica Camera Obscura Lab Artist-In-Residence
2025-2026
For me, this residency aligns deeply with the core of my practice: large-scale textile installations, memory flags, and the transformation of space into sanctuaries for reflection and healing. I can’t wait to be creating in that kind of light, lulled by the rhythm of the sea….
It’s also deeply significant that I will be working out of Palisades park, as during this time, I’ll be creating a new series reflecting the regrowth of plants and nature in Pacific Palisades and Altadena—a continuation of work supported by a Doan Foundation grant. I am grateful for the physical and symbolic space to to an anchor for the “soft monuments” I’ve been developing—a moment to pause, deepen, and expand.
The program provides an honorarium and materials budget to support each artist’s work, and I’m grateful to share this experience with fellow residents Cheyenne Green, Harmony Harris, London James, Anahid Boghosian, and Sara Hassan Khani.
I’m thankful to the City of Santa Monica’s Cultural Affairs Division for their trust and shared vision. Thank you for your support. And thank you LA Downtown News and Santa Monica’s Argonaut News for covering this news as well.
I look forward to seeing how this residency ripples outward through flags, fabrics, installations, and community-making—and I’ll share more soon as public workshops are announced.
(Photos from my old studio below, by the talented Beatriz Valim. )
Faith-Ann in studio
