2025 ACA Soundscape Field Station Artist-in-Residence at Canaveral National Seashore
February 24 - March 30
The ACA Soundscape Field Station, a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore, announces transdisciplinary sound artist, Dani Ferreira Amaro as its 2025 artist-in-residence. This residency program invites musicians, composers, and ecologists to find innovative approaches that promote creative expression of a healthy and balanced soundscape for current and future generations. Atlantic Center for the Arts has over 45 years of experience in producing artist-in-residency programs that attract distinguished artists from all over the world. This residency coincides with the 50th anniversary of the National Park Service designation of Canaveral National Seashore as protected by the federal government. The artist will honor this momentous occasion in her donated creative work to the park.
From February 24 – March 31, 2025, Dani Amaro will explore Canaveral National Seashore to create a site-specific, tactile sound sculpture made from Sargassum (seaweed) and materials representing the cultures of Florida, such as Sankofa ironwork. She states, “sargassum is known to filter out unwanted debris from our oceans as well as provide refuge for marine life such as shrimps and sea turtles. One is invited to draw parallels and contemplate the similar functions of preservation, protection, intimacy, and shelter that Sankofa ironwork provides to the many homes of historically displaced peoples.”
Amaro’s approach to environmental storytelling combines the process of sustainably creating textiles from organic materials to broaden her practice by exploring new ways audiences can tangibly experience music. She is a trained jazz musician and music teacher in Miami, Florida who shares her heritage across distance from the Global South to Florida.
During the residency, she will invite the public to engage with her creative process while living and working on-site in the national park.
Public Events at Canaveral National Seashore – Free with park admission:
March 8, 2025 at 11AM Soundwalk at Apollo Beach Visitor Center
March 15, 2025 at 11AM Artist Talk at the Doris Leeper House, Eldora
March 17–30, 2025: Open Viewing of Artist Sound Sculpture
More details about this residency, visit https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/home/soundscape-field-station/
