Atlantic Center for the Arts offers an immersive, inter-disciplinary, tuition-free residency with artists only paying for room and board. Financial assistance is available for those who qualify.
The three-week Residency Program brings together “Mentoring Artists” from different disciplines, such as the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, film/video, and multimedia), architecture, music (composition and performance), literature, choreography, dance, performance art, and theater. Each Mentoring Artist determines the requirements and basic structure of their residency, and through an online application process, they each may select up to eight “Associate Artists” to participate in the three-week program. The essence of the program is to provide a collegial environment for artists of all disciplines where they can engage in meaningful interaction and stimulating discussions, while pursuing individual or group projects. It is an ideal setting for the exchange of ideas, the inspiration for new work, and the cross-fertilization of disciplines. The programs can include formal classes, discussions, individual meetings, individual and group critiques, collaboration, and studio time. The award-winning Leeper Studio Complex provides residents with resources such as a painting studio, sculpture studio, digital media studio, dance studio, music/recording studio, writers’ studio, black box theatre and library.
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Bob Faust, Mentoring Artist-
Artist and designer Bob Faust crafts work with typography at its core and viscerality on its surface, and is the principle and creative director of Faust, a cultural branding studio, for over 30 years. He makes his work with purpose first—to inform, empower and/or instigate in the service and celebration of human difference. Text, patterns, and the ideas of surprise and discovery emerge as throughlines throughout his conceptual art practice that defies categorization and genre. In addition to his own work, Faust is also the professional and personal partner of artist Nick Cave. Together they founded the non-for-profit Facility: a multi-use creative space in Chicago that seeks to build community and change the world through art and design. Faust has been recognized nationally and internationally for his inimitable creativity through many prestigious honors including a University of Illinois, College of Fine & Applied Arts, 2022 Distinguished Legacy Award and City of Chicago, 2022 Mayor’s Medal of Honor. Exhibitions have included Mass MoCA BY The Numb3r5 (Mass MoCA), For And Nor But Or Yet So (Poetry Foundation), WA/ONDER (167 Green), with all, and still… (The Peninsula Chicago), Rapt on the Mile (The Magnificent Mile Association), Ways and Means (Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and The Chicago Transit Authority), About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art (Wrightwood 659), Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container (Chicago Design Museum), gu lty / nnocent (MASS MoCA); Unfolded: Made with Paper (Chicago Design Museum), Betweens (Riverside Arts Center), and CHGO DSGN (Chicago Cultural Center). He has also received recognition from The New York Times, Fast Company, the Chicago Tribune, Newcity, NBC 5 News, the Chicago Sun-Times, CBS Evening News, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
Residency Statement:
As a cohort of purpose-led makers, we will discuss the many crossovers and differences between art and design. We will identify how our individual practices exist and work on that spectrum. We will discuss existing projects and projects in the making, push meaning, connect materials, explore aesthetics, and increase impact. The best candidate for this residency would be either an artist looking to amplify the impact of their work’s purpose or a designer looking to use their purpose centered process to make art. I realize most of you are likely both artist and designer, but that there is a special fuel inside this fluidity that can be tapped into with deeper understanding.
This will be a low key, but very intentional residency.
There are no prerequisites required.
Application Requirements:
Candidates should provide a short bio, CV and work samples, as well as a letter of interest as to why they are responding to the above residency description. Specifically addressing what they hope to take back to their studio, or how they hope to leave the residency more prepared to move their practice forward.
Website
http://www.bobfaust.com/
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Chase Hall, Mentoring Artist
Chase Hall (b. 1993, St. Paul, Minnesota) explores the shifting lines between personal and generational narratives through paintings that merge autobiography with broader systems of power. Using brewed coffee to stain cotton supports, Hall creates a distinct material language that reflects on global histories of oppression, trade, and resilience. His works reveal the social layers of American life and highlight the vivid presence of Black experience beyond stereotypes, blending hieroglyphic symbols and expressive gestures to trace how nature, history, and imagination intertwine.
Hall was the subject of a solo exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA in 2023. In 2022, Hall was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York to produce alarge-scale artwork, the monumental diptych Medea Act I & II, for its opera house. Hall’swork has been included in group exhibitions including Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (2024–2025); Day for Night: New American Realism, Palazzo Barberini, organized by the Aïshti Foundation, Rome, Italy (2024); Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Black California Dreamin’, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2023); NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2023); Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (2021); Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, University of Illinois Chicago (2021); and This Is America | Art USA Today, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (2020). Hall has been an artist-in-residence at The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, CA; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA; and Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, ME. Hall’s work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Hall lives and works in New York.
Residency Statement:
Social Impact through Visual Arts
As we each navigate and struggle through the current landscape, our role as artist gives us the unique opportunity to express ourselves and address broader social issues with our skills and talents—we have a voice and the means to express it in ways others can't.
Though there will be group discussions and individual studio visits, the experience will also be informed by the artists participating and the environment we create.
Application Requirements:
• CV/Resumé
• Samples of your work (jpg, png, or pdf)
• A statement about what you will be working on and what you hope to accomplish while in residency.
Website
http://www.chasehallstudio.com/
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Larry Mitchell, Mentoring Artist-
Larry Mitchell exemplifies the success that can be achieved when one chooses to follow his passion. The gifted Grammy Award winning performer, producer, and engineer continues to amaze. Larry’s guitar textures demonstrate his abilities as a solo artist and as an ensemble player. Larry has had the opportunity to tour with Tracy Chapman, Billy Squier, Ric Ocasek, and Miguel Bosѐ. While on tour with Tracy Chapman, Larry performed for the late Nelson Mandela. In 1999, Larry won a San Diego music award for Best Pop Jazz artist.
In 2007, Larry won a Grammy Award for producing, engineering and performing on the Best Native American Music Album, “Totemic Flute Chants”, by Native American artist Johnny Whitehorse, who is best known as Robert Mirabal. Larry is also the proud recipient of 26 New Mexico Music Awards in various categories which include pop, adult, contemporary, rap, rock, country World music, and Native American music with artists such as Dawn Avery, Joy Harjo, Indigie Femme and Shelley Morningsong. In 2009, Larry had the honor of playing on the Dalia Lama Renaissance album. Larry also made a guest appearance on The Price is Right in 2009.
In 2019, Larry toured with Dawn Avery, Kate Martin, and a few other artists. He also went on tour to promote his 9th solo release Déjà Vu, which is a collection of his previously released songs. His new interpretations of these songs bring new life to them and make them as appealing as they were upon their original release.
When Larry is not performing, producing, or engineering, he enjoys helping others to develop their talents. He often makes appearances at music stores, colleges, and guitar camps all over the world. He frequently leads workshops on technique, tones, and recent guitar technology.
In January 2019 Larry ran a guitar jam class for Joe Satriani’s G4 Experience which was put on by Dreamcatcher events. From July 29-August 2nd, 2019, Larry appeared as a featured artist at world renowned guitarist Steve Vai’s, Academy 5.0, where he taught classes in guitar textures, soloing concepts, guitar effects usage, and home recording. Larry had also been an instructor at Vai’s Academy on two other occasions. After his stint at the Academy in 2019, Larry went on to tour Germany, Italy, Costa Rica, and Australia. He finished his tour with a 3-week master artist residency at The Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida.
Larry has also spent a year teaching production and recording techniques at the College of Santa Fe music program. And Once a Year he has taught a master class in guitar, recording, and production at the Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland campus for the last seven years.
Children hold a special place in Larry’s heart and he frequently does workshops for autistic children who play musical instruments. These workshops are in conjunction with Florida State University, the Center for Autism and Related Disorders located in 27 states, and Y Music in Cleveland Ohio. Larry has also collaborated with Dawn Avery on Native American Language Intensive Programs on the Mohawk Reservation in Canada.
Residency Statement:
The Language of Creativity: Navigating Personal Creative Growth as a guitarist in the modern Music world
Guitar -intermediate to Advanced concepts with Sounds, Textures and Technique. pedalboard sets and gear
Production and Engineering, Narrowing down what you want to record and allowing yourself to record, how to capture the creativity. Microphones (if needed) DAW choices, Templates and Audio Interfaces.
We will be working on being the self inspired, self proficient and to finding, building that sacred space to allow the music to flow through then capturing it without self doubt, option paralysis (with so many choices in Guitar technology to the vastness of the modern day DAW And Being free to Jam, create and express yourself with others as we will Jam every day Monday through Friday evenings and most of all we’ll have fun doing it all.
Application Requirements:
• CV/Resumé
• Samples of your work/music
• A brief statement about what your goals are for this residency
Residency Eligibility
Residency Experience Summary
Application Information
Applicants must be over the age of 21 and must speak English.
Associate Artist Eligibility & Requirements:
• Open to artists of all disciplines in the United States and abroad
• Applicants must be at least 21 years old at the time of the residency
• Individual artists or collectives of up to two artists can apply to one or more residencies in any discipline of choice
• Applicants can attend one or more residencies in consecutive sessions upon acceptance; there is no limit
• Language Requirement: A basic command of the English language is necessary
To apply as an Associate Artist to our Mentoring Artist-in- Residence program, visit Submittable for open applications. https://aca.submittable.com/submit
https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/residencies/mair-program/associate…
Residency Contact: rmorrison@atlanticcenterforthearts.org
The residency fee covers room and board for the artist for all three weeks. Travel, transportation, and artist materials are the responsibility of the artist.
Scholarships are available that can reduce the residency fee.