The Black Rock Senegal compound includes Kehinde Wiley’s personal studio and living space as well as three single-occupancy residency apartments with adjacent studio spaces for resident artists. The compound has been designed to include maximum flexibility to move between common areas and private ones.
Private Spaces for Residents
Residents are offered room, board, and individual studio space.
The single-occupancy apartments are each three floors, including a living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, and two bathrooms.
The kitchens are furnished with basic cookwares. Black Rock offers access to grocery provisions provided on a weekly basis for residents who prefer to prepare their own meals in their apartments. Black Rock offers three meals a day to residents, which are able to be served to residents in their apartments or at the main dining table.
The individual art studios are designed to accommodate different artistic mediums, each furnished with tables, light fixtures, and storage space. Black Rock provides staff assistance and a modest stipend for artists to use for obtaining materials necessary to their practice while they are in Dakar.
Common Areas
Black Rock includes a number of indoor and outdoor spaces that are shared between the main house and the residency quarters. These areas include the main dining table, the library, the gym, the sauna, the swimming pool, and the interior gardens.
