Artist Residency at Xochipilli Collective

Milpa Móvil is a mobile, land-rooted artist residency hosted by Xochipilli Collective that centers art, culture, and sustainability through Indigenous ways of knowing. Housed in a solar-powered RV on our land in Houston’s Settegast neighborhood, Milpa Móvil will serves as a living space, creative studio, and gathering site for artists, culture bearers, and knowledge keepers.

The residency is grounded in relationship to land, to community, and to ancestral and contemporary practices. Milpa Móvil is not only a place to make work, but a space to listen, learn, teach, and contribute to collective care.

The Milpa Móvil Artist Residency is open to BIPOC artists, culture bearers, healers, and knowledge keepers, as well as non-Indigenous allies whose practices align with values of reciprocity, respect, and community accountability. While Indigenous artists and educators are centered and curated regularly, the residency welcomes interdisciplinary practices across visual art, performance, storytelling, agriculture, healing arts, and socially engaged work.

Residents will be invited to stay in Milpa Móvil and engage with the land, garden, and community through:

• Time and space for creative practice and research
• Opportunities to learn from and alongside Indigenous elders and teachers
• Engagement with land-based practices, including food sovereignty, medicinal plants, and ceremony
• Public sharing through open studios, talks, teaching, community gatherings, etc.
• Residencies may include teaching, collaboration, or community engagement, but are shaped in conversation with each resident to honor different ways of working.

Milpa Móvil is guided by Indigenous frameworks of sustainability, interdependence, and care. We view the residency as a reciprocal exchange where artists bring their practice, and in return are invited into relationship with the land, its history, and the people stewarding it.

Milpa Móvil is part of Xochipilli Collective’s long-term vision to build Indigenous-led cultural infrastructure that supports artists while nurturing land, memory, and future generations. Artist residencies will begin in Summer 2026, following the public unveiling of Milpa Móvil and the establishment of our first milpa.

📌 Open calls and residency details will be announced soon.
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