howard gilman performing artist residency

With the ongoing support of Howard Gilman Foundation, Staten Island Arts continues the Performing Arts Residency Cohort (PARC) for performing artists for a second year (2024-5). This program supports the creative practice of 10 performing artists living and working in Staten Island through a 6-month residency cohort. This residency opportunity does not focus on project creation, and does not come with space, but rather focuses on nurturing each artist’s creative practice through peer mentorship and professional development.

The PARC program will support individual performing artists across dance, theater, and music at any stage of their careers. Participating artists will be required to attend monthly cohort meetings from September 2024 to February 2025 at the Staten Island Arts offices. The meetings will serve as space to share more about your creative practice and process, including working ideas, challenges, and needs. This model aims to break down the siloed community structure in Staten Island across different forms of expression and bring more support to creative practice without an explicit focus on outcomes or products.

All artists will be asked to share with the cohort about their creative practice in an introductory meeting, with senior-level SIA staff facilitating a relationship- and trust-building environment for the group. In the subsequent 5 meetings, artists will create more focused, in-depth, multimedia presentations of their practice to create space for sharing and feedback from the full cohort. All artists will be asked to engage in this peer-mentorship feedback model, with the additional encouragement to attend cohort activities (workshops, presentations, etc) outside of the established meeting structure. Between cohort meetings, throughout the residency period, SIA staff and professional NYC-based performing artists will be available to cohort members for 1:1 professional development to be scheduled throughout the 6-month residency period.