Mentoring Artist Residency Schedule
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 and 3×23 Campaign Donors for allowing us to make this commitment to funding exceptional artists. All residency fees, room, and board are waived; this does not include travel, transportation, and artist materials
Residency #187
Sunday, October 09, 2022 - Saturday, October 29, 2022
Applications Closed
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, channeling 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 poet's 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
Residency #188
Sunday, February 12, 2023 - Saturday, March 04, 2023
Applications Closed
Judd Greenstein
composer / performer
"Judd’s philosophy as both a composer and a curator involves the creation and promotion of music that is an organic blend of multiple styles, sounds, and instruments, open to all influences." - Anonymous
Dean Haspiel
cartoonist
"You can certainly see the influence of the two gods of Silver Age comic books, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, in Haspiel’s work. Nevertheless, despite those clear influences, Haspiel possesses a style all his own. Like all the best artists, he is inspired by elements from those who went before him, experiments with them, takes them in different directions, and creates something new & distinctive in the process." - Ben Herman
Ernesto Pujol
multidisciplinary cultural producer
"Pujol is a performance artist and social choreographer whose work centers on the creation and sustainability of a culture of consciousness. His site-specific, durational group performances consist of minimal repetitive gestures that generate silence, slowness, and stillness, creating a space for interiority, if not the awakening of consciousness. They are both ethereal and uncanny, exploring our relationships to work and labor, to public space, to our bodies, and different forms of collectivity." - More Art
Residency #189
Sunday, May 14, 2023 - Saturday, June 03, 2023
Application Deadline: Sunday, December 04, 2022
Sky Hopinka
visual artist / filmmaker
"Hopinka’s work transports us to a time when narratives would pique the curiosity and take us to a world where the imagination roamed free, where the possibilities were endless, a time when the present, past, and future were stories waiting to be told by those like himself, who possessed the talent to captivate those who dared to see and listen." - Shanel Thompson,
Rone Shavers
fiction
"With "Silverfish" Rone Shavers establishes himself as an important figure in the genre space; he understands that the greatest value in speculative fiction is its ability to reveal the contemporary, even while it sets itself in different times and spaces." - Matt Holden, Strange Horizons
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
Residency #190
Sunday, June 25, 2023 - Saturday, July 15, 2023
Application Deadline: Sunday, January 15, 2023
Alteronce Gumby
visual artist
"The artist subverts traditional understandings of light and color in order to establish his relationship to the universe, his body in the cosmos and the world he cannot see, and the instinctive gesture of mapping one’s presence in relation to the stars. Gumby investigates the energy of chromatic perception through its universal origins — the cosmos and geology — relating astrological mapping, the geological formation of the earth, and the power of gemstones, to the process of abstract painting." - XIBT Contemporary Art Magazine
Okwui Okpokwasili
performance maker
"The impact of her performances is in the tenor and emanation of utterances, the experience of being present with her body and its vibrations, generating an experience irreducible to language. Yet the depth of research in Okpokwasili’s work does not vanish under these proto- or extra-linguistic measures. Instead, she is interested in activating themes deep inside us: the ways in which Western ideologies deny histories, experiences and social systems, particularly for women of colour, which challenge Euro-American dogmas." - Andrew Hibbard, Frieze
Larry Ossei-Mensah
writer / curator
“I’ve always been committed to working in a manner that is culturally responsive to our times and utilizes contemporary art as a tool to heighten our awareness and understanding not only about the world around us but also ourselves.” - Larry Ossei-Mensah
Residency #191
Sunday, October 08, 2023 - Saturday, October 28, 2023
Application Deadline: Sunday, May 07, 2023
Missy Mazzoli
composer / pianist
“History and style place her among the post-minimalists who use repetitive means and classic, tonal harmonies. But while many of her peers are self-consciously chasing after hipster-pop relevance, Mazzoli is composing substantial pieces that can appeal to those listeners without pandering to them. Her work is clear and uncompromising, and even when it is not at its best, she never plays to the crowd.”- George Grella, New York Classical Review
Addae Moon
playwright / dramaturg / director / cultural worker
“As both a playwright and a new play development dramaturg, the cultivation of new work and unique and diverse voices has been central to my artistic practice for 18 years.” - Addae Moon
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
About the Mentoring Artist-in-Residence Program
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Mentoring Artist-in-Residence Program Details
These extraordinary artists are supported by ACA Mentoring 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