Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency #198 - Featuring Hannah Drake
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Apply as an Associate Artist to participate in a three-week immersive residency with a Mentoring Artist (Hannah Drake or another featured artist), selecting from multiple disciplines including visual arts, music, literature, dance, performance, and theater.
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Get matched →- Deadline
- 31 days left
- Entry fee
- Not listed - check the source
- Award
- Tuition-free residency with room and board costs; financial assistance available for those who qualify.
- Location
- Florida, United States
About
Overview
Atlantic Center for the Arts offers an immersive, inter-disciplinary, tuition-free residency bringing together Mentoring Artists and Associate Artists from different disciplines including visual arts, music, literature, choreography, dance, performance art, and theater. The three-week program provides a collegial environment for artists to engage in meaningful interaction, pursue individual or group projects, and exchange ideas across disciplines.
The Program
Each Mentoring Artist determines the structure of their residency and selects up to eight Associate Artists through an online application process. Programs can include formal classes, discussions, individual meetings, critiques, collaboration, and studio time. The Leeper Studio Complex provides resources including painting studio, sculpture studio, digital media studio, dance studio, music/recording studio, writers' studio, black box theatre, and library.
Hannah Drake Mentorship: Bearing Witness
Theme: "Bearing Witness – a residency for Bold Artists." Artists will explore urgent issues facing our nation through poetry, performance, and personal storytelling. Drawing from historical narratives, poetry, dance, monologues, and personal storytelling, participants will create work that challenges injustice, honors the past, and imagines a more equitable future. Open to writers, dancers, spoken word artists, actors, and storytellers.
Application Requirements
For Hannah Drake mentorship: A brief personal bio (no more than 300 words), CV, and website or Instagram link. (Note: Will Cotton mentorship requires 10 images of your work and accepts artists working in painting and drawing.)
Costs
The residency is tuition-free. Participants pay for room and board. Financial assistance is available for those who qualify.
Key Dates
- Submission deadline: September 14, 2026
Funding
The Hannah Drake mentorship is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.
- Award
- Tuition-free residency with room and board costs; financial assistance available for those who qualify.
- Entry fee
- Room and board costs apply; financial assistance available for those who qualify.
- Entries per artist
- Up to 8
- Theme
- For Hannah Drake's mentorship: "Bearing Witness – a residency for Bold Artists" exploring urgent issues facing our nation through poetry, performance, and personal storytelling that challenges injustice and imagines a more equitable future.
- Eligibility
- Open to artists of all disciplines; specific mentorship tracks may have medium requirements (e.g., painting and drawing for Will Cotton track).
- Audience
- Artists of all disciplines
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