Olamina Global Arts Residency, started in 2023 by Interdisciplinary artist Nikesha Breeze, is an international artist residency, multi media art studio, healing arts space and education center providing rest and revisioning space for artists, activists, cultural workers and their community allies. 

In the Yoruba, "Olamina" translates to "this is my wealth". Viewed through an anti-capitalist prism, this name redefines wealth as “that which is shared. Wealth as health, space, time, access and care”. In our global arts and activists community, many of the prevailing challenges that social artists experience revolve around the lack of safe and adequately resourced spaces, limited access to materials and education, and perhaps most crucially, the lack of time for rest, re-centering, dreaming, and visioning. Olamina aims to bridge these gaps. Positioned as a space for rest, for dream, for building new pathways of resistance, for art making, for learning and sharing. Our program is designed to be accessible, making room for marginalized artists, activists, scholars, and their working allies to come together in shared community. We aim to make space for individuals to re-emphasize the importance of restorative practices, emotional intelligence, grief awareness, and trauma healing in their lives. Residents are given a private or shared room, studio space, 24 hour access to multi discipline studios, communal kitchen, access to healing gardens and medicinal saunas, communal meals and time.