Master Artist Residency Schedule
Residency #173
Sunday, May 12, 2019 - Saturday, June 01, 2019
Applications Closed
Janie Geiser
interdisciplinary artist
Geiser’s interdisciplinary performance work has been recognized with an Obie Award and two Bessie Awards. “Geiser gives voice to the reaches of the unconscious, pointing to the abandoned splendor that exists prior to the rules of society and language.” (—Holly Willis, Res,2004)
Annie Gosfield
composer/performer
"Ms. Gosfield, whose imaginative works reflect her experience in the classical, rock and jazz worlds and blend acoustic and electronic elements to alluring effect... The music’s mood reflected the nature of radio jamming — abrasive, otherworldly and, at times, unexpectedly and eerily beautiful." Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times
James Lecesne
Actor / Author / Screenwriter
James Lecesne is an American actor, author, screenwriter, and LGBT rights activist best known for his screenplay of the Academy-award winning short film "Trevor". James Lecesne is a Pabst Endowed Writer for 2019
Residency #174
Sunday, June 23, 2019 - Saturday, July 13, 2019
Applications Closed
Cornelius Eady
poet
“Cornelius Eady’s poems are joyous, incantatory, experiential. [His] work is a glossary of earthly objects and human events, and his linguistic responses provide pleasure even when they are provoked by injustice, or by pain, or by loss.” —Dia Art Foundation
Nicole M. Mitchell
composer/performer
Nicole M. Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator. She is perhaps best known for her work as a flutist, having developed a unique improvisational language and having been repeatedly awarded “Top Flutist of the Year” by Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists Association (2010-2017). Nicole Mitchell was recently awarded a "Champion of New Music" by the American Composers Forum.
Michelle Grabner
visual artist
Michelle Grabner is an American painter, conceptual artist, curator and professor. She's currently Painting and Drawing Chair at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “All of Grabner’s activities are driven by distinctive values and ideas: working outside of dominant systems, working tirelessly, working across platforms and towards community.” David Norr in the introduction to her exhibition at MoCA, Cleveland
Residency #175
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - Saturday, November 02, 2019
Application Deadline: Sunday 05/12/2019
Sook Jin Jo
multidisciplinary artist
Thus Jo has taken profane materials and created a sacred art, conveying a sense—indeed, affording an experience—of the numinous, as Rudolph Otto called it. She indeed takes us “over there,” which in her case means into the depths of her interior life, where alone transcendence of the conditions of outer life—the street—is possible. ----- Donald Kuspit, Art Critic
Larry Mitchell
composer/performer/producer
Larry Mitchell is a Grammy award-winning producer, engineer and performer who has toured the world playing guitar with well-known artists including Tracy Chapman, Billy Squier, Ric Ocasek and Miguel Bosé. He also fronts the dynamic rock/instrumental band The Larry Mitchell Trio.
Joy Harjo
poet / musician / author
“…With a double shot of heart, beauty, freedom, peace and grace that blends traditional Native rhythms and singing with jazz, rock, blues and hip-hop, Harjo is right at the top of the best contemporary American poetry and music artists.” —Thomas Rain Crow, The Bloomsbury Review
Residency #176
Sunday, February 16, 2020 - Saturday, March 07, 2020
Application Deadline: Sunday 09/15/2019
Will Cotton
visual artist
“The baker-cum-painter – and director of Katy Perry's super-kitsch California Gurls video – raids the sweetshop of 21st-century desires in his candy-coated fantasy worlds.” The Guardian
Annie-B Parson
choreographer and director
Annie-B Parson co-founded Big Dance Theater in 1991. She has choreographed and co-created over 20 works for the company, ranging from pure dance pieces, to adaptations of found text, plays, and literature, to original works combining wildly disparate materials. “It is hard to do justice to the freewheeling brilliance of Big Dance Theater.” The New York Times
Jennifer Higdon
composer and publisher
Higdon, the two-time Grammy winner, produces four or five commissions a year. “Viola Concerto is the work of a composer who is completely at home in her own idiom. She has internalized an amalgam of jazz, new-age, Americana and classical, avoided the ruminating of the minimalists, and opted for contrast over evolution." —The Washington Post
These extraordinary artists are supported by ACA’s 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