Artists in Residence 2026-27: Tossie Long, Aaron Garrette, and Faapito Sagote Jr.
The Shipyard Trust’s Artists-in-Residence Program supports exceptional artists from the Bayview Hunters Point community with an 18-month residency, providing free studio space and access to opportunities that advance their artistic careers. These artists enrich the creative community at the Hunters Point Shipyard and strengthen connections with the surrounding Bayview Hunters Point community.
STAR congratulates Tossie Long, Aaron Garrette, and Faapito Sagote Jr. on their selection and welcomes them to the Hunters Point Shipyard Artist community!
Tossie Long is a generational San Franciscan and Bayview resident, a Grammy-nominated vocalist, producer, ritual sound designer, and ethnomusicologist working at the intersection of sound, ritual technology, and cultural memory. She is co-founder of Bakanal de Afrique and of Red Clay Sound Haus, a sonic studio and living archive of Black San Francisco. Her projects include Sacred Sounds of San Francisco (San Francisco Public Library) and Magnolia Mojo (Audium Theater of Sound). www.redclaysoundhaus.com · Instagram @tossielong
Aaron Garrette is a San Francisco native photographer whose images showcase people who are often not in the spotlight. His Bayview Hunters Point roots run through Providence Baptist Church, his work as a behavioral support specialist at Malcolm X Academy, and collaborations with Shipyard artists including Afatasi the Artist. He' has gotten into photographing fashion shows, and loves connecting photography, music and fashion, highlighting the City and its beauty. garretteaaron.wixsite.com/94shots · Instagram @_94shots_
Faapito Sagote Jr. is a Bayview native of Black and Samoan heritage and a self-taught painter who builds his own canvases — four by four feet and larger — working in chrome and acrylic paint, oil sticks, pastel, and molding paste. His bold urban-abstract conversation pieces have shown at the Bayview Opera House with the Futurism Fashion Experience. He lives in Bayview Hunters Point and is looking forward to expanding his practice beyond his living room, which he shares with his wife and three children. Instagram @Beetos_art