ECOCA’s Keyhole Workspace Residency provides 3 artists with free studio space for 4 months followed by an exhibition. There are two cohorts per year: spring and fall. Each cohort receives studio visits from guest curators and artists, a small material stipend, and support from ECOCA’s staff. ECOCA provides access to handtools, a photo darkroom, and a small printing press.
With magnificent natural lighting and original architectural fixtures, these studios hold a unique history mostly gone from today’s buildings, providing an inspiring location.
Group Exhibition: TBD
Press:
JARELIS CALDERON: THE ARTS PAPER
New Keyhole Residents Take Up At The Ely Center | October 9, 2025
Diana Abouchacra is a Lebanese American mixed-media artist who received her M.F.A. from Louisiana State University and her B.F.A. from the University of Connecticut. She works in a variety of mediums including video, printmaking, installation, and sound art. Diana loves incorporating experimental strategies and techniques into her studio practice, with recurring themes of grief, vulnerability, ephemerality, multiplicity, and transformation.
Dario Mohr is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and nonprofit leader who creates altar-inspired installations, sculptures, and public works rooted in ancestral veneration and indigenous traditions. He splits his time between NYC and New Haven, CT. His work has been presented at venues such as the Jacob Javits Center, Lewis Latimer House Museum, Wave Hill, Brooklyn Children's Museum and internationally at Tafaria Castle in Kenya, supported by residencies, fellowships, and grants from organizations including EFA, LMCC, ApexArt, MYSCA and NEA. He is also the founder and Director of AnkhLave Arts Alliance, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to amplifying the voices of artists of color and indigenous communities worldwide.
"My artistic practice centers around transforming everyday objects into anthropomorphic forms, where the material world splits and reconverges, entangling matter to flow, move, and propel forward. I cut, paint, stitch, construct found objects, building materials, and steel into corporeal assemblages. The materials and processes I use symbolize the cyclical nature of transformation, where rupture and repair coexist, responding to the embodied and disembodied experiences inscribed with societal expectations and norms." - Lauren Flaaen