ACEER’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program integrates involvement with Indigenous communities and in-depth lectures and workshops led by local specialists in the scientific field. It provides a meeting point where participants can investigate and challenge their creative practices in a stimulating environment. Through critique and collaborative engagement, participants explore ways to understand, represent and arrive at creative solutions to the issues facing Amazonia. This three-week residency program is hosted by Camino Verde Reforestation Centre and coordinated and run by ACEER and institutional partners Studio Verde and Amazon Aid. 

Its interdisciplinary approach combines artists’ unique abilities to transcend language, race, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic barriers with scientists’ unique skills to collect and translate data that deepens our understanding of the natural world. Bringing international and local artists together in an immersive Art & Science program in the Peruvian Amazon provides participants an opportunity to form a deep understanding of the challenges of Indigenous communities and conservation practices faced in the Amazon rainforest. 

At the end of the AIR program, Artists offer the local community an opportunity to engage in their findings by planning and executing a public exhibition and/or Artist talk in the ACEER Art Gallery in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. Artists are also encouraged to participate in talks, workshops, and film screenings held during the residency.