“Trust that all water everywhere touches all water everywhere.” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Convening Bodies is a relational and creative research residency bringing together artists and practitioners from across disciplines to gather near the sea. This residency focuses on expanding engagement with how we relate to bodies of water, marine environments, the Ocean at large, and one another; exploring how situated studies and new understandings may mediate an ecology of care and inform a creative practice. 

Founded to support a coming together as a counter politic in a time of hyper-individualism and climate and societal emergencies, our aim is to foster supportive discourse, deep listening, the sharing of creative practices and knowledges, restoration, and making. Every resident is considered an active co-contributor to the programming and evolution of this residency.

Convening Bodies is a two-part, 10-day residency situated on Lummi Island in the Salish Sea, and Grayland, WA, along the Pacific Coast, with a fun caravan trip connecting the two.