Creative process is at the core of what we do.
Najee Omar, SKY LAB, Little Black Book, 2024 (Hamadi Price)
Placing an emphasis on process, Hi-ARTS supports Artists of the Global Majority through developmental artist residencies.
Placing an emphasis on process and creative exploration, we take pride in providing our artists with financial support, time and space, and public programming opportunities. We do this through two developmental residencies: CRITICAL BREAKS and SKY LAB.
CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new work while SKY LAB supports artists who center community at the root of creative development, research and process. Continue reading to learn more about each.
Artist Opportunities
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CRITICAL BREAKS
CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new theater and/or performance work. The residency aims to provide artists with time and space to concentrate on a specific project and/or element of a project. This is an ideal for works that have already been started, and/or have perhaps received some institutional support, but are still in need of additional concentrated focus, funding and space.
Forms of work may include traditional theater, dance, performance and/or storytelling, or it may experiment with new technologies, movement, duration, site-specificity, hybridity, and more.
The residency period culminates with a WORK IN PROCESS [WIP]. [WIP] programs are designed in collaboration with the artist and Hi-ARTS.
Applications are now closed.
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SKY LAB
SKY LAB is for artists who center the community at the root of creative development, research, and consideration. This may include relationship building, deep listening and discussion, experience design, community collaboration, storytelling, and other interdisciplinary methods and practices that take place alongside and in relation to an artist’s identified community.
We welcome artists to define what community engagement means to them. Time spent in residence may be used to engage directly with community members, work with collaborators and stakeholders, relationship building and/or processing past community engagement with the focus of engaging with audiences.
The residency period culminates with a WORK IN PROCESS [WIP]. [WIP] programs are designed in collaboration with artists and Hi-ARTS.
Applications are now closed.
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Creative Continuum
Designed to nurture the ongoing artistic growth of our community, Creative Continuum provides financial subsidies, studio space, and in kind support to assist artists in advancing their creative projects.
At a time when few institutions offer continued resources to artists beyond an initial residency or program, Creative Continuum ensures that support continues after initial engagement with Hi-ARTS.
Applicants must be a Hi-ARTS Alumni and have completed a Hi-ARTS residency between 2015 and the present day. They must have an established or developing project timeline with a clear plan for project start and completion dates and must complete this application detailing project goals and how they align with Hi-ARTS’ mission.
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