Master Artist Residency Schedule

Dora García

artist and contemporary art teacher

García draws on interactivity and performance in her work, using the exhibition space as a platform to investigate the relationship between artwork, audience, and place. >>>>>PLEASE NOTE: ACA, in partnership with the Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy will provide 4 Spanish citizens with $600 in transportation reimbursements and no charge to attend the residency with Dora García.

Billy Martin

percussionist, composer and visual artist

“Billy is a true polymath,” says Brett Littman, director of the Noguchi Museum (NYC). “He is first and foremost a master percussionist – but his artistic ideas are not only limited to the musical sphere. He draws, paints, and makes films. All of these activities are spurred by his relentless intellectual curiosity and his search for ways to express himself.” – SURFACE magazine Dec/Jan Art issue (2016)

Ain Gordon

playwright, director, and actor _ _

“Ain Gordon haunts the margins of history...conjur(ing) the sort of distant lives that don’t make it into textbooks, processed into oblivion by what he calls history’s ‘ruthless editing machine.’” (The New York Times) Ain Gordon is a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers

Charlie Hailey

architect, writer

Charlie Hailey is an architect, writer, and professor. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, Hailey teaches at the University of Florida, where he was recently named Teacher/Scholar of the Year. His sixth book "On the Porch" is forthcoming in Spring 2021. He is a John Jeronimo, FAIA; Chair for Architects.

Doug Varone

choreographer, director

Doug Varon’s numerous honors and awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE Award (Lincoln Center’s Orpheus and Euridice), the Jerome Robbins Fellowship at the Bogliasco Institute in Italy, and two individual Bessie Awards. In 2015, he was awarded both a Doris Duke Artist Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Dance Guild.

Randall Silvis

fiction

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter Randall Silvis is a Senior Fulbright Fellow and Thurber House writer-in-residence, his many awards include the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, three National Playwrights Showcase Awards, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Nina C. Young

composer

“Young’s music resides somewhere at the intersection of smart, whimsical, thought-provoking, strange, and new. It manages to tackle social issues and scientific questions while introducing innovative sounds seemingly for the pure joy of it. And with its focus more on sound rather than traditional melody and harmonic structure” - Matt Kufchak, Sightlines

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.

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.

Bob Holman

poet

Shahzad Ismaily

composer/performer

Paul Rucker

visual artist

“Rucker’s installations, videos, sculpture, and performances encourage the viewer to integrate facts, statistics, and historical narratives in meaningful and unforgettable ways, but at their own pace and through a variety of channels.” – Cara Ober, BmoreArt