Mentoring Artist-in-Residence Schedule
Residency 199 — April 25 to May 15, 2027
APPLICATION DEADLINES:
Thursday, February 25, 2027, at 11:59 PM EST
Limited partial scholarships are available for this residency.
Larry Mitchell
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.
Website
http://www.LarryMitchell.com/
Bob Faust
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/
Chase Hall
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 a
large-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 individually and collectively navigate an ever-changing world, artists have a unique opportunity and responsibility to engage with the cultural and social landscape around us. Through our work, we can express, question, challenge convention, imagine more equitable futures, and contribute to a broader understanding of the world we inhabit. This does not require art to function as protest or advocacy. Rather, it is an invitation for artists to remain deeply committed to their practice, using creativity, curiosity, and critical inquiry as a means of moving forward, both individually and collectively.
Throughout history, artists have helped shape the way we understand, interpret, and question our existence. The ability to create, communicate, and offer new perspectives is an opportunity not to be overlooked or underestimated. Art has the capacity to make the familiar unfamiliar, give form to ideas that are difficult to articulate, and open conversations that might otherwise remain unexplored.
This residency will provide a space for artists to deepen their relationship with their work while examining its place within a larger cultural and social context. Through conversation, close looking, critique, and the act of making, we will build a dialogue that encourages both personal discovery and collective growth. Group discussions, artist presentations, studio visits, independent work, and exploration of the surrounding landscape will serve as the foundation for an environment driven as much by the participating artists as by the ideas and experiences they bring with them.
Our conversations will move freely across disciplines and perspectives, exploring everything from the human condition, beauty, and metaphor to the experiences that inspire us, the questions that challenge us, and the changes we hope to see in the world. We will consider not only what we make, but why we make it, what informs our decisions, and how the present moment shapes the work we feel compelled to create.
Ultimately, this residency is an opportunity to devote three weeks to our respective practices while cultivating a more meaningful relationship with ourselves, our work, one another, and the world around us. It is an invitation to slow down, exchange ideas, take creative risks, and leave with a renewed sense of purpose, perspective, and possibility.
Artists working in all mediums and disciplines at any stage of their career are encouraged to apply. We welcome a broad range of approaches, perspectives, and practices, united by a shared belief in the capacity of visual art to foster dialogue, challenge assumptions, inspire change, and contribute to a more thoughtful and meaningful future.
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/
All Mentor/Master 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 Contact: rmorrison@atlanticcenterforthearts.org