Master Artist Residency Schedule
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Due to COVID-19 and the immense stress it has put on artists, ACA is offering FULL scholarships to all accepted artists. The Board of Trustees and staff feel protecting our core mission is paramount, and are grateful to the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation for allowing us to make this commitment to funding exceptional artists during these times. All residency fees, room, and board are waived; this does not include travel, transportation, and artist materials
Residency #181
Sunday, May 16, 2021 - Saturday, June 05, 2021
Applications Closed
Suzanne Bocanegra
visual artist
“One thing that makes Bocanegra’s work so smart and powerful in dealing with the relentless characterizations of women as lost and misguided and in need of one kind of surveillance or another is her deft use of farce and satire. In this case, she comically juxtaposes high culture’s fetishizing of rural life with the drudgery of rural reality, simultaneously skewering the trends of high culture in both contemporary America and eighteenth-century France.” – Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker
Sibyl Kempson
playwright
Sibyl Kempson is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright at Mid-Career, for writers working indisputably at the highest level of achievement. She is a 2014 USA Artists Rockefeller Fellow, a MacDowell Colony Fellow and an alumnus of New Dramatists. Kempson and collaborator David Neumann’s play, I Understand Everything Better, received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Production in 2015.
Residency #182
Sunday, June 27, 2021 - Saturday, July 17, 2021
Applications Closed
Marcos Balter
composer
“Marcos Balter is a prolific and sought-after composer entering midcareer with a head of steam.” – Christian Carey, Musical America
Carol Becker
writer/cultural critic
“For Carol Becker, traveler, there are no roads; she makes her path as she walks and takes the only road that can be taken, the ethical one. And along her extraordinary path, she creates spaces of hope and resistance. Her long journey takes us to centers of western culture and helps us separate the culture from the spectacle―and identifies the difficulties ahead…” – Alfredo Jaar, artist, architect, filmmaker, MacArthur Fellow
Phoebe Gloeckner
cartoonist
“Her drawing conveys a lot of the underlying feeling of what's going on in the same way a movie can have a shot without dialogue that's a major turning point or a major insight into a character. It's a delicate balancing act. The pictures have to propel the story without overtaking it. That balance -- it's almost a tension -- occurs when a cartoonist is equally good as a writer and artist, and it's very rare.” – Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead.
Residency #183
Sunday, October 10, 2021 - Saturday, October 30, 2021
Applications Closed
Gregg Deal
visual / performance artist
“Gregg Deal is a husband, father, artist and a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. As a provocative contemporary artist-activist much of Deal’s work deals with Indigenous identity and pop culture, touching on issues of race relations, historical consideration and stereotype. With this work—including paintings, mural work, performance art, filmmaking and spoken word—Deal critically examines issues within Indian country such as decolonization, the Native mascot issue and appropriation.” – TEDx Boulder
Bob Holman
poet
Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. He was described by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The New Yorker as "the postmodern promoter who has done more to bring poetry to cafes and bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti.” Bob Holman is a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers
Shahzad Ismaily
composer/performer
Shazhad Ismaily is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer, born to Pakistani immigrant parents, he is currently based in New York City. He composed the score for the critically acclaimed movie Frozen River, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Residency #184
Sunday, February 13, 2022 - Saturday, March 05, 2022
Application Deadline: Sunday, September 19, 2021
Timo Andres
composer / performer
” A pianist of formidable capabilities and a composer who has already written for a number of respected performers and ensembles, Timo Andres is evidently a figure of the moment.” – Gramophone
Jaquira Díaz
writer
“It takes courage to write a book like “Ordinary Girls,” and Díaz does not shy away from her deepest, most troubling truths. She jumps into the writing of her story and gets her hands dirty, her heart broken, her spirit bruised.” – Reyna Grande, NY Times. Jaquira Díaz is a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers
Guadalupe Maravilla
transdisciplinary artist
” Maravilla’s exceptional show is teeming with humanity—both on a personal scale and also as a larger picture of contemporary immigration. It is a visceral punch to the stomach.” – Kathleen Hefty, Brooklyn Rail
Residency #185
Sunday, May 15, 2022 - Saturday, June 04, 2022
Application Deadline: Sunday, December 05, 2021
Philip Ewell
music theorist, and performer
“Ewell’s research specialties include critical-race studies, Russian music and music theory, modal theory, hiphop and popular music, and cello performance. He has over 30 published items in top journals in the U.S. and abroad. His most recent work entails a critical-race examination of music theory.”
Patrick Martinez
visual artist
“Through a study of the lack of diverse representation in historical portrait painting, a medium traditionally used to celebrate ones successes and wealth, Martinez was led to the portrait cake paintings. The cake acts as a globally and socio-economically understood medium of celebration, now featuring the faces of not only white historical figures but the faces of freedom fighters of all races.” – NY Art Beat
Eileen Myles
poet / writer
“Myles is often referred to as an “institution”—the way one speaks of a terrific restaurant that’s endured the waves of gentrification as a “New York institution.” But the word bounces off her: there is nothing official about her, nothing staid or still. She is exemplary for more and more young writers precisely because she has gone her own way.” – Ben Lerner, Paris Review. Eileen Myles is a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers
Residency #186
Sunday, June 26, 2022 - Saturday, July 16, 2022
Application Deadline: Sunday, January 16, 2022
Ryan McGinness
visual artist
“McGinness cultivates a visually cacophonous style that features layer upon layer of luminous graphic designs and computer-style icons—all original creations derived from everyday street signage, advertising and pop-cultural insignia.” -Gregory Galligan, Art in America
Margaret Schedel
composer/performer
Margaret Schedel is a composer and cellist whose works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is an Associate Professor of Music at Stony Brook University and serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is the Director of cDACT, the consortium for digital arts, culture and technology.
Carmelita Tropicana aka Alina Troyano
writer / performer
“As a writer and performer, Tropicana straddles the world of performance art and theatre using humor and fantasy as subversive tools to re-write history from the point of view of woman, man, child, and assorted animals and insects.” – Vermont Performance Lab
Residency #187
Sunday, October 09, 2022 - Saturday, October 29, 2022
Application Deadline: Sunday, May 08, 2022
Nora Chipaumire
choreographer / performer
Defiantly charismatic, the Zimbabwean-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire has long been a kind of rock star of dance. She calls her three-part work “#PUNK 100% POP*NIGGA” a “live performance album,” and it’s as much a punk-style concert as it is a dance show she works the crowd with a microphone, channelling a different musical hero in each fifty-minute section: Patti Smith, Grace Jones, and the Congolese barrier breaker Rit Nzele. – The New Yorker
Kwame Dawes
poet / writer / critic
“Kwame Dawes is not a poet of the American Great Plains, though the landscape and its seasons serve as the space for the poets 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
Pamela Z
composer / performer / media artist
“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
About the Master Artist-in-Residence Program
How to Apply to the Master Artist-in-Residence Program
Master Artist-in-Residence Program Details
These extraordinary artists are supported by ACA Master 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. For information on contributing to this endowment, please contact Executive Director Nancy Lowden Norman 386.427.6975 x 15