Our 2024 BAC Fellowship

BAC Fellowship is a nine month program dedicated to supporting emerging artists whose art, life, and histories are woven between the US/Mexico border. Artists are immersed in a process where they learn about the lands they currently inhabit, visiting the threads of history, migration, social justice, and politics through the perspective of border identity. The program focuses on inspiring the local border communities to tell their own stories. Artists will move through this process of investigation, artmaking, and documentation with fellow artists and mentors who will serve as thought partners, critics, and support in preparation for a public exhibition.

2024 BAC Fellows

  • Margarita Ramírez Loya

    Writer

    Margarita Ramírez Loya is a Mexican Fiction writer working on her first YA novel about a mother and child separated in the Douglas/Agua Prieta borderlands in a time when Title 42 was the law of the nation for asylum seekers.

  • Felipe Nery

    Actor | Photographer | Videographer

    Originally from Agua Prieta, Sonora. He is an actor with a degree in Performing Arts, with acting studies at the University of Sonora. He has collaborated with a variety of artistic groups in the State of Sonora, working as a performer and in production and audiovisual content. He currently performs as a stage performer and theatrical technician in the Compañía Teatral del Norte and continues to develop and explore photography and videography.

  • Roberto Corral

    Musician

    Roberto Corral is a singer (Tenor), chorister and composer who lives in Agua Prieta Sonora, he has performed with different choirs, orchestras and musical groups in some countries on the American continent. In his work as a composer he tries to capture life on the border.

  • J Vega

    Multimedia Artist

    J Vega is a mixed media artist living and working in Douglas and Agua Prieta. Their work has been featured in the Cochise College Annual Student Show in 2024 and at the Binational Art Walk in Douglas in 2023. J’s work focuses on the beauty, talent, and pride of being from a border community like Douglas and Agua Prieta.

  • José Luis Cabrera Sotero

    Painter

    José Luis Cabrera Sotero. He was born in Morelia, Michoacan on March 10, 1983. Jose Luis began painting in a detention center for migrants with colored pencils. Now, he illustrates a crude reality of what his experience as a migrant was like. His works are exhibited in museums in the USA and Mexico.