｡･:˚:✧｡ Staying with the Archive ｡･:˚:✧｡
A 2 Month Online Mentorship Circle
💬 TESTIMONIALS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
"Cami has a rare ability to weave multiple worlds and fields of experience into an authentically shared space. She helped me slow down, think more practically, and strengthen my sense of self-accountability. This support transformed how I approached my work, making the process feel both grounded and generative. Cami has an extraordinary capacity to hold complexity—multiple projects, layered identities, and many cultural ways of being. I’m deeply grateful to have found her. I would recommend this mentorship to any interdisciplinary thinker or artist seeking true peer-to-peer support."
Tiana Arredondo - Former Mentorship Participant & Former 2025 Resident
"As an artist, mentorship with Cami provided a space to connect with other practitioners, each with their own unique projects. Since I was developing a personal documentary film that needed more nurturing, Cami provided me the space to reflect on my own process, and align my thoughts with my project. Even when the answers lie within us, sometimes we need a medium to connect us with our own selves to help realise our authentic artistic vision."
Purandhya Sharma - Former Mentorship Participant
"This mentorship encouraged me to spend time with my project, be open to experimentation, and rethink how to work with archival materials in ways that are critical, stiauted, and (sometimes) fun. Thank you Cami and Archival Bootcamp!"
Alice-Anne Psaltis - Former Mentorship Participant
Participating in the Oct&Nov Circle?
A small online learning community for artists, researchers, and cultural workers working with archives.
✦ Application Deadline → September 29
✦ Mentorship → Oct-Nov 2026 · 8 weeks, starting on the week of October 6th - Tuesdays 9am PST (Los Angeles) / 12pm EST (New York) / 6pm GMT+2 (Madrid)
The Mentorship Circle is an eight-week online space for artists and researchers working with archives, memory, and artistic research who seek a more sustained engagement with their practice. Grounded in critical pedagogies, the program prioritizes attention, consistency, and care, offering a framework for developing projects beyond the pressures of productivity.
[Read the full dossier →]
By the end of the Circle, you'll leave with a clearer sense of direction for your project, concrete tools to sustain your process, and a small community that has your back.
✷ How it works:
ꕥ Small international cohorts (up to 6 participants), curated around complementary practices
ꕥ Weekly online sessions + one individual mentoring session
ꕥ Readings, exercises, and writing prompts
ꕥ Peer-to-peer learning and mutual support
✷ Calendar:
Session structure
Each session includes a trigger —a poem, writing exercise, concept, or mapping exercise— followed by individual or collective work, and a closing conversation to share what emerged and define next steps.
ꕥ Weeks 1-3 [Grounding]: We get to know each other’s projects, practices, archives, and research questions. Through mapping exercises, we trace what connects them, where they might lead, and what we want to open up through the Circle.
ꕥ Week 4 [Duos]: We work in pairs, spending focused time with each other’s projects, following threads, asking questions, and offering new perspectives.
ꕥ Week 5 [Individual session]: one hour, just you and camila, working through what your project needs.
ꕥ Week 6 [Crianza Mutua]: A classic from Archival Bootcamp: you share your project-in-process and let the group nurture your questions, doubts, and certainties through peer-to-peer feedback.
ꕥ Week 7 [Opening the circuit]: Bring a fragment, draft, experiment, or prototype. Use the group as a live audience: try something new, put it to the test, and see what happens.
ꕥ Week 8 [Mapping & closing]: We map where your project has travelled, identify what remains open, and distill the practices and tools that have been useful. Together, we create a shared emergency manual to carry forward beyond the Circle.
✷ Who is it for?
Artists, researchers, writers, archivists, curators, filmmakers, and cultural workers engaging with archives, memory, and artistic research — at any stage of their process — who are looking for a structured yet flexible framework to move their practice forward with clarity, consistency, and care.
Facilitated by camila kevorkian, founder of Archival Bootcamp, with 13 years working in education, archives, memory, and artistic practice across Spain, Australia, Nepal, Argentina, and Chile, collaborating with libraries, institutional archives, museums, and universities.
✷ Investment
Full Circle ◌ Archival Bootcamp Community*: 350€ / 400USD
Regular Price ◌ Two payments of: 225€ / 250USD
* Past Residents of Archival Bootcamp and Former Mentorship Circle Participants