The program includes support beyond financing, with “specialized tools and resources.”
MIAMI, United States. – The NGO Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) announced this Wednesday the name of the 10 Cuban migrant/exile artists who make up the 2025-2026 cohort of its Cuban Migrant Artists Resilience Fellowship, who will be able to promote projects associated with values such as artistic freedom, cultural rights, human rights and gender equality.
According to ARC, the program includes support beyond financing, with “specialized tools and resources” aimed at accompanying the professional insertion of scholarship recipients outside of Cuba, in addition to guidance and mentoring for their artistic development and the creation of networks within a global artistic community.
This is the third edition of the Cuban Migrant Artists Resilience Fellowship. The selected group brings together “a wide selection of disciplines, trajectories and aesthetic sensibilities,” which, according to the ARC, underlines the richness of the Cuban independent artistic guild and its commitment to “free artistic expression.”
The announced selections are Yanelys Núñez LeyvaCuban art historian, communicator and curator, exiled in Madrid since 2019 and founder of the San Isidro Movement (MSI) (2018); María Esther Lemus Corderovisual artist, illustrator and comic artist born in Havana in 1990; Luis Alejandro YeroCuban filmmaker born in 1989 and based in Fortaleza, Brazil; Katherine Bisquetpoet and activist born in Ciudad Nuclear in 1992 and graduated in Literature from the University of Havana; and Julio Llopiz-Casalvisual artist and graphic designer born in Havana in 1984.
Additionally, the list includes Ismario Rodríguez Pérez, journalist and documentary filmmaker born in Havana in 1992; Fernando Fraguela Fosadoindependent filmmaker, editor and producer born in 1991 and based in Madrid; Eliécer Márquez Duanyknown as “El Funky”, rapper and activist born in Havana in 1981; Camila Ramírez Lobónvisual artist currently residing in the United States; and Ahmel Echevarría Perénarrator and critic of art and literature born in Havana in 1974.
