Mentoring Artist-in-Residence Schedule

These extraordinary artists are supported by ACA Mentoring Artist Endowment, funded by a $50,000 gift from each of these generous donors: Joe and Lynn Conte, Don Funk, Ed and Jeanie Harris, Roy and Peggy Hester, the Pabst State of Florida Cultural Endowment, Bob and Genie Stine, Jim and Alexis Pugh, Bryce West, and John M Jeronimo, FAIA.

All Mentoring Artists are vetted and nominated by the National Council; we do not accept unsolicited proposals or requests for consideration. Visit the National Council Advisory for more information. 

To apply as an Associate Artist to our Mentoring Artist-in Residence program, visit Submittable for open applications.

Residency #193

Sunday, May 12, 2024 - Saturday, June 01, 2024

Applications Closed

Sonja Henderson

Sculptor, Visual Artist

Sonja Henderson is a sculptor, mixed-media artist, teacher, collaborator and innovator. Her sculptures and installations challenge socio-political constructs through manipulation of media, scale, and re-contextualization of form. Sonja teaches and works directly with communities using restorative and social justice practices centering equity, healing, and human rights.

Crystal Wilkinson

Poet, Writer

Language has the propensity to heal. It can illuminate the dark spaces, the spaces where things make us uncomfortable, but it can also illuminate the basic foundations—joy, pain, fear, and hope—these deeper emotions that make us most human. Poetry...enables us to fully experience something outside ourselves, while simultaneously learning more deeply about who we are or who we want to be—individually and collectively. - Crystal Wilkinson

Pamela Z

Composer, Media Artist, Performer

“Pamela Z made electronica performance into a natural extension of the way artists could explore the contemporary world, mirroring its complexity in layers of sound that helped make her point, rather than being the point.” – Michael Zwiebach

Residency #194

Sunday, June 23, 2024 - Saturday, July 13, 2024

Applications Closed

Angela Dufresne

Painter

Using humor and over-the-top sensuality, Angela Dufresne creates narrative paintings that depict absurdist allegories of perversion and debauchery.

Kahil El’Zabar

Composer, Musician, Interdisciplinary Artist, Activist

I thoroughly enjoy the exercises associated with making art. Music is a healing force in my personal life and I’ve tried to use it as an instrument for positive change in the world. My creative process starts with a dream. I see colors within this process, and then translate those colors to noted value through music. - Kahil El'Zabar

Okwui Okpokwasili

performance maker

"The impact of her performances is in the tenor and emanation of utterances, the experience of being present with her body and its vibrations, generating an experience irreducible to language. Yet the depth of research in Okpokwasili’s work does not vanish under these proto- or extra-linguistic measures. Instead, she is interested in activating themes deep inside us: the ways in which Western ideologies deny histories, experiences and social systems, particularly for women of colour, which challenge Euro-American dogmas." - Andrew Hibbard, Frieze

Residency #195

Sunday, October 06, 2024 - Saturday, October 26, 2024

Application Deadline: Sunday, May 19, 2024

Andy C

Composer, DJ, Musician, Producer

"My work is all about uplifting humanity." - Andy C

Kwame Dawes

Critic, Poet, Writer

“Kwame Dawes is not a poet of the American Great Plains, though the landscape and its seasons serve as the space for the poet's latest room for meditation. Unlike his colleague at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ted Kooser, Dawes is a transplant to the American Midwest. In his latest poetry collection, Nebraska, Dawes’s obsession is fixated on ideas of place and the feeling of displacement this landscape so foreign to his own has conjured”. – Jordan Charlton, The Adroit Journal. Kwame Dawes is a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers

Bob Faust

Visual Artist, Designer

By drawing upon the language and tools of the design world and capitalizing on his expertise as a typographer, Bob Faust creates visual, visceral and contextual art experiences that inform, empower and/or instigate in the service or celebration of human difference. Faust has been recognized nationally and internationally for his creativity and clarity through many prestigious exhibitions and publications.