Master Artist Residency Schedule
Residency #171
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - Saturday, November 03, 2018
Applications Closed
Chris Abani
fiction
“Chris Abani might be the most courageous writer working right now. There is no subject matter he finds daunting, no challenge he fears. Aside from that, he writes like an angel. If you want to get at the molten heart of contemporary fiction, Abani is the starting point.”—Dave Eggers
Maria de Alvear
composer
The German-Spanish composer Maria de Alvear was officially honored with the Spanish National Award for Music on June 1, 2016. King Felipe VI and Queen Leticia of Spain presented Maria de Alvear with the prize in Palencia Cathedral
Isaac Julien
installation artist / filmmaker
In 2017, Isaac Julien received the Charles Wollaston Award, for most distinguished work at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and was awarded the title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s birthday honours, 2017.
Residency #172
Sunday, February 17, 2019 - Saturday, March 09, 2019
Applications Closed
Deborah Hay
choreographer, dancer, writer, coach
May 5, 2015, France's Minister of Culture and Communication awarded Deborah Hay the title of CHEVALIER DE L'ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
fiction
“Campbell is a bard, a full-throated singer whose melodies are odes to farms and water and livestock and fishing rods and rifles, and to hardworking folks who know the value of life as well as the randomness of life’s troubles.” —Entertainment Weekly. Bonnie Jo Campbell is a Pabst Endowed Writer for 2019
Catherine Opie
visual artist
“Looking at her pictures can be uncomfortable, not because of their confrontational content but because they reveal as much about the beholder as the beheld.” The New York Times
Residency #173
Sunday, May 12, 2019 - Saturday, June 01, 2019
Application Deadline: Sunday 12/02/2018
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
Application Deadline: Sunday 01/20/2019
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.
Benjamin Percy
fiction
"Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years...His prose has the masculine power of Ernest Hemingway's, but also the sensibilities and compassion of Eudora Welty. His writing is like a meeting of Shakespeare and rock 'n' roll. Benjamin Percy knows how to keep it in E-major, and what a ride it is." James Lee Burke, bestselling author of Feast Day of Fools, Heaven's Prisoners, and Neon Rain. Benjamin Percy is a Pabst Endowed Writer for 2019
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
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, and Bryce West. For information on contributing to this endowment, please contact Executive Director Nancy Lowden Norman 386.427.6975 x 15