Mentoring Artist-in-Residence Schedule
Residency #195 — October 5 – 25, 2025
Scholarships are available for this residency.
The Mentor/Master Artists for Residency #195 have been selected and are as follows:
Molissa Fenley
One of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, Molissa has had a lasting impact on performance. In dance, she has explored extreme effort and duration in highly crafted patterns and performed with an explosive, joyous energy that infused her work with endurance, balance, and life force. She challenged modern dance orthodoxy and redefined the character of a woman’s moving body in the late twentieth century, bringing post-modernized ritual to the stage.
Residency Statement
In imagining a three-week period of working together, I suggest: We start each day with a warmup – I will lead us through what I have been using as a technical maintenance series for many years.
Approximately 90 minutes.
We continue with creative ideas:
- I’d like to work on a new piece and would be very happy to have you take part and collaborate in it!
(There will be a performance opportunity at the end of the 3 weeks).
- Opportunities for all to create new work and receive feedback. Suggestions and ideas about space from which to create works utilizing the spatial ideas of Adjacent, Against, Upon; Spatial Relations; A Closed Field
- Please come with the idea of creating something (solo or with the other dancers) or to continue with something you already have in progress.
Let’s look and discuss each other’s work.
Application Requirements
Please include the following items in your proposal:
- Please describe your work, what you’ve been making and what you want to make.
- A video or two of work that you feel most represents your artistry. (link to Vimeo, YouTube, or a download via WeTransfer).
- A recent resumé or CV.
Website
MolissaFenley.com
Jeremy Kittel
Jeremy is an American violinist, fiddler, and composer. He received a Grammy nomination for “Best Instrumental Composition” in 2019 alongside prevalent composers such as John Williams and Terence Blanchard. Fluent in multiple musical genres, he composes original music that draws from a wide variety of influences including folk, jazz, celtic, classical, electronic, and more.
Residency Statement
Composing can be a deeply solitary act—but the moments of greatest artistic growth in my life have come not in isolation, but in dialogue: when colleagues, collaborators, or mentors challenged me to go deeper, reach higher, and make more meaningful art.
At the Atlantic Center for the Arts, I look forward to being part of that kind of creative community. I’m eager to share techniques, craft, and insight from my own experience—across classical, jazz, folk, and beyond—but just as eager to support artists whose work moves in radically different directions. Whether you’re writing for instruments, voice, electronics, or blending genres, my aim is to help you sharpen your artistic vision while staying true to your intuition and creative voice.
Improvisation and exploration are central to my own process, and I believe many of the deepest principles—of balance, resonance, harmony—transcend genre and even medium. While this residency is designed primarily for music creators, I’m also open to working with an artist from another field whose process overlaps in meaningful ways.
Creating often means stepping into the unknown, and I look forward to stepping into that space together—offering guidance, feedback, and support, and remaining open to discovery myself through the process.
Application Requirements
A brief bio or resumé.
- A short statement about what you hope to explore or create during the residency.
- Two recent work samples that reflect your creative voice and range. These may include audio, video, scores, or any combination, accompanied by relevant context (e.g., program notes or descriptions). Please compile all materials into a single PDF with links to any media you’d like to include.
Website
JeremyKittel.com
Fatimah Asghar
Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer, Fatimah Asghar is a South-Asian American Muslim writer who cares less about genre and instead prioritizes the story that needs to be told and finds the best vehicle to tell it. They are the author of If They Come For Us, When We Were Sisters, and the chapbook After. Asghar is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. In 2017, they were a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and listed on Forbes’s 30 under 30 list.
Residency Statement
I am interested in working with a cohort to create a space of bravery—where we feel empowered enough to be our bravest selves, to take risks in our artmaking, to embody what it would feel like for us to be fearless in the pursuit of our craft. All genres of writing are welcome (screenwriting, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama), and artists should be interested in pushing themselves out of their comfort zones and engaging in practices that get in touch with their intuitive and spiritual center.
Application Requirements
Submit up to 10 pages of writing or a short film no longer than 10 minutes
- CV or resumé
- A letter of intent that answers: Who are you, and what communities are you a part of/do you honor in your work? What are you contending with around fear in your art making? Where is fear stealing your voice? What do you need to be brave in this moment? What is the vision you see for yourself as an artist? How does your artistic practice counter the violence of the state? What does being an artist mean to you?
Website
FatimahAsghar.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.
Note: Residency applications will open the first week of June 2025.
To apply as an Associate Artist to our Mentor/Master Artist-in Residence program, visit Submittable for open applications.
Residency Contact: rmorrison@atlanticcenterforthearts.org