In collaboration with SOURCE Studio and bronte velez
From SOURCE Studio's November 2026 Newsletter, Cultivating a homemade field of love
The homemade field of love concert at Carnegie Hall, with esperanza spalding and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Photo by and courtesy of Jennifer Taylor.
NEWS / COLLABORATIONS
Cultivating a Homemade Field of Love
In a recent newsletter titled Cultivating a homemade field of love, SOURCE Studio reflects on the conclusion of its inaugural Research & Development Fellowship with artist brontë velez, including a weeklong residency hosted at Arts Letters & Numbers in Averill Park, New York, and its culmination in a concert at Carnegie Hall with esperanza spalding and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. We are grateful to SOURCE Studio for its generous acknowledgment of our collaboration and for the opportunity to participate in a project grounded in collective inquiry, artistic experimentation, ritual, and the transformative possibilities of gathering.
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Cultivating a homemade field of love
SOURCE Studio | November 11, 2026
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The residency brought together artists Jasmine Best, Spirit Adams, Nastassja Swift, Karina Sharif, and Cici Osias, working alongside brontë velez to develop a series of ritual objects, installations, garments, and collective practices inspired by June Jordan's 1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. Through shared study, craft, ceremony, and conversation, the participating artists created works that would become part of a homemade field of love, a Carnegie Hall performance led by esperanza spalding and hosted by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. The residency at ALN provided a setting in which these individual practices could develop through proximity, collaboration, and sustained attention to the materials and questions they shared.
In its account of the fellowship, SOURCE Studio offers particular thanks to the Arts Letters & Numbers community for helping make the residency possible, describing ALN as friends and kindred spirits whose willingness to welcome an ambitious and evolving creative process helped bring the project into being. We extend our own gratitude to SOURCE Studio, brontë velez, and the participating artists for the generosity of their work and for the conversations, encounters, and relationships that emerged during their time on our campus.
The project is also documented in two extensive reflections by brontë velez, published by SOURCE Studio, which trace the conceptual development, collaborative methods, and lived experience of the residency and its subsequent realization at Carnegie Hall.
FURTHER READING
Read SOURCE Studio's full newsletter: Cultivating a homemade field of love
Read brontë velez's on crafting a homemade field of love (part one)
Read brontë velez's on crafting a homemade field of love (part two)