Upcoming Programs + Events
ACA Conference | 2025
Event Date and Time
December 8, 2025 12:00am - December 11, 2025 11:59pm MT
Santa Fe, NM
United States
Latest News
Advocacy Alert
August 8, 2025
Updates about the proposed budget for the NEA and NEH, new visa petition forms, and the League of American Orchestras provides information on the NEA grant process.
Grantmaking Grows the Field, One Artist, One Residency at a Time
August 1, 2025
Artist residencies can be life-changing for artists and the organizations that host them. At Artist Communities Alliance (ACA), we know that meaningful placements don’t happen by chance — they’re built through trust, shared values, and sustained support.
Equitable Capacity Is Transforming the Artist Residency Field — Help Us Keep Building It
July 25, 2025
Since launching its strategic plan in 2021, Artist Communities Alliance has centered the concept of equitable capacity: the organizational muscle needed to enact equity across all areas of practice.
2023 | Mellon Grant Awarded to ACA
July 24, 2025
In March of 2023 ACA received a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, its biggest and most transformative grant to date.
A Stronger Network, Built on Shared Values
July 22, 2025
Artist residencies have always been more than just places to make work. They are communities: spaces where artists and organizations grow together through shared risk, care, and transformation. At Artist Communities Alliance (ACA), we know these relationships don’t thrive by accident.
2021 | Equitable Capacity Workshops Launched
July 17, 2025
Artist Communities Alliance's Equitable Capacity Workshops launch in 2021 to help artist residencies develop and enact fair, just, and inclusive practices.