Terra Foundation Residencies

In 2024, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) were awarded a $220,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The two-year funding supports CULTIVATION: Art, Environment & Materiality at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ, offering residencies for American-based artists exploring ecology, agriculture, and sustainable material practices. The first artist in residence was Dr. Ietef Vita, who joined G.A.S. in August 2025.

Dr Ietef Vita

United States | Aug - Oct 2025

Dr Ietef Vita also known as DJ Cavem is a Grammy-nominated eco-hip-hop artist, educator, and vegan chef whose work bridges music, environmental activism, and ancestral foodways. Raised in Denver and rooted in Pan-African traditions, Ietef has spent over two decades using hip-hop as a tool for climate justice, youth empowerment, and wellness. His work includes multimedia albums, food justice curriculum, and international workshops that fuse beat-making with soil science, herbalism, and culinary arts. A certified permaculturist and raw food chef, Ietef’s performances often double as immersive learning experiences. Ietef currently serves as the Climate Futures & Legacies Manager at Artist As First Responder, a collective platform that utilizes exhibition, curatorial residencies, cofounder of “Prana to the people”, a community sound bath and yoga collective providing wellness for activist on the front line hosting events like “Revolutionary Rest” & public forums, and archives to center the work of artists whose essential creative practices heal communities and save lives.

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Daniel Minter

United States | Oct - Nov 2025

Daniel Minter is a painter, illustrator, and educator whose work explores themes of displacement and diaspora, spirituality, and the recreation of meanings of home. In his richly textured bas-relief and mixed media assemblages, Minter employs diverse materials including metal, wood, twine, and clay to construct an iconography of the Afro-Atlantic experience rooted in resilience, resistance, and healing. Of his motivating force, he explains, "I want to channel my ancestors, I want them to know that they have projected out into the future." Minter's visual artwork is informed by extensive travel across the African Diaspora. These experiences have deepened his understanding and expanded his spiritual consciousness in ways that continue to nurture his life and work. Minter co-founded Indigo Arts Alliance, a nonprofit artist residency and incubator for creative scholarship dedicated to cultivating the artistic development of Black and Brown people globally.

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Ryan Tenney

United States | Jan - Mar 2026

Ryan Tenney is an interdisciplinary (agri)cultural worker whose practice spans agriculture, artistic production, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Influenced by the ecological, scientific, and artistic legacy of George Washington Carver, Tenney synthesizes painting, printmaking, creative coding, soil science, and farming into a holistic practice grounded in Black agrarian traditions. His work emphasizes arts-based knowledge translation, collaboration, and experimentation as pathways toward food sovereignty and ecological justice. Alongside his artistic practice, Tenney teaches printmaking, painting, and agri-TEK on his family farm and through workshops across the United States, fostering connections between cultural production, land stewardship, and community-led futures.

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