This is the submissions page for Atlantic Center for the Arts. For a current residency schedule, please visit Mentoring Artist-in-Residence Schedule. Mentoring Artists that are currently accepting applications are listed below.
Carefully read all of the application requirements for each category you are applying to.
Please note: You cannot edit your submission after it has been completed.
Residency Dates: Sunday, October 8 to 28, 2023
Application Deadline: Sunday, May 7, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST
To read the full Mentoring Artist-in-Residence page about this program and its financial aid information, click here.
Residency Statement:
I am interested in working with dedicated, imaginative, curious musicians working in any genre. Applicants should be interested in expanding their creative practice through discussions, workshops, masterclasses, and lots of unstructured creative time. Through these activities, we will foster community, develop skills and language with which to talk about our work and the work of our peers, and will discuss the broader cultural context of our art-making.
Application Requirements:
• Letter of Intent: please include residency goals, current approach, and musical interests. You may also include non-musical interests or inspirations (optional). (.doc, .docx, .pdf file)
• Short Bio (.doc, .docx, .pdf file)
• Musical samples, 10 to 15 minutes total (.mp3 file(s))
• 1 or 2 musical scores, if these are relevant to your creative process (optional) (.pdf)
Residency Fee:
All residency fees, room, and board are waived; this does not include travel, transportation, and artist materials.
Application fee: $25
If you have any questions or problems submitting, visit the ACA's How to Apply page.
Residency Dates: Sunday, October 8 to 28, 2023
Application Deadline: Sunday, May 7, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST
To read the full Mentoring Artist-in-Residence page about this program and its financial aid information, click here.
Residency Statement:
In this life. In this particular black body, my artistic practice is inextricably tied to my spiritual practice. I am actively exploring elements of myth, folklore, history, and narratives that use the imagination as the entry point to themes of recovery, resistance, and transformation through the mediums of live and immersive performance as well as experimental film and video. My practice is grounded in the belief that the crafting of performance, ritual, immersive experiences and transgressive pedagogy can be used as a technology to facilitate new ways of existing within and beyond oppressive paradigms.
This residency will be a generative process for the artists involved. Artists will be guided through creative prompts and approaches that incorporate everything from personal narrative, history, archival work, and speculative fiction in order to create a performance/narrative text that can exist in either a live or digital format.
Application Requirements:
While the focus of the residence will be on the creation of a dramatic performance text. Applicants are welcome to submit a 15-20 page writing sample that incorporates any literary medium (poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, essay, one-act, or full-length play samples.)
Residency Fee:
All residency fees, room, and board are waived; this does not include travel, transportation, and artist materials.
Application fee: $25
If you have any questions or problems submitting, visit the ACA's How to Apply page.
Residency Dates: Sunday, October 8 to 28, 2023
Application Deadline: Sunday, May 7, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST
To read the full Mentoring Artist-in-Residence page about this program and its financial aid information, click here.
Residency Statement:
Art has the power to make visible that which too often goes unseen and unacknowledged. As a multidisciplinary artist, I am committed to making artwork that has a profound impact on viewers’ understanding—both intellectual and emotional.
I’m looking to mentor and work with visual artists that combine disciplines within their practice.
The 3 week engagement will also include a workshop that will address strategies to advance your creative practice.
Application Requirements:
Your materials may be submitted in any of the following file formats; jpeg, .doc, .docx, .pdf). Please, no more than 5 mb per file.
To be considered, please include the following items…
- CV (no more than 3-pages)
- A short (400-800 words) letter of intent. What you would like to do during the residency.
-What are your current goals as an artist? (400-600 words)
- List 2-5 Prior projects description and documentation (websites, etc.). Submit links in a
separate document. State your role in the project.
- Send up to 10 images (.jpg) and/or up to 10 minutes of online video - Please include separate
document with links to online work (YouTube, Vimeo, web site, etc.) (.doc, .docx, .pdf)
Please include an image description sheet for slides.
Residency Fee:
All residency fees, room, and board are waived; this does not include travel, transportation, and artist materials.
Application fee: $25
If you have any questions or problems submitting, visit the ACA's How to Apply page.
Florida Surf Film Festival Presents:
Taylor Steele Filmmaking Residency
June 11-16, 2023 - Atlantic Center for the Arts
New Smyrna Beach, FL
Taylor Steele's Background:
Apple, National Geographic, Corona, Pacifico, Samsung, and HP computers represent a sample of Taylor's commercial clients, but some time before, he made surf films. Named one of surfing’s “Ten Most Influential People” by Surfer Magazine, director Taylor Steele’s two decades of experience and 25 award-winning films continue to challenge and redefine the ways we see, think about, and experience the art of surfing. Steele’s breakthrough films Momentum, Campaign, and Loose Change of the ’90s established The Momentum Generation, a close-knit collection of progressive surfers including Kelly Slater, Rob Machado and Shane Dorian, who have each proceeded to redefine the limits of modern surfing. This group, including Taylor, was featured in an Emmy Award winning feature documentary of the same name on HBO in 2018. He recently completed work on Barons as executive director and second unit director, a television series about the early days of a major surf brand. Over the past decade, Steele’s films have continued to pioneer the outer limits of the genre, with epic travelogues like Sipping Jetstreams and Castles in the Sky, eclectic profiles like The Drifter and Missing, and social experiments like Innersection and This Time Tomorrow. “I never want to repeat myself,” says Steele, “so each project I try to push to another level. Something that scares me just a little.”
Taylor's Residency Statement:
I am interested in working with dedicated, imaginative, curious filmmakers that could work in any film genre. Applicants should be interested in expanding and understanding their creative practice through discussions, workshops, masterclasses, and lots of unstructured creative time. Through these activities, we will develop creative and business understanding skills and understanding of how to talk to crew, cast, peers & clients. We will also discuss the broader cultural context of intention in our artmaking.
As a multidisciplinary filmmaker, I am committed to making artwork that profoundly impacts viewers’ understanding—both intellectual and emotional. I’m looking to mentor and work with filmmakers that combine disciplines within their practice. The week-long engagement will also include a workshop that will address strategies and intentions to advance your creative practice.
Information about the Residency:
Florida Surf Film Festival (FSFF) will operate a filmmaking residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) for up to fourteen early to mid-career artists, chosen from a pool of applicants.
Artists will work with Taylor as part of the five-day residency, gaining first-hand experience through an interactive and practical approach to the art of filmmaking. While surfing and documentary films can be a focus of their work, there are no restrictions on an appropriate topic of their choice. Their work may have already been shot in some cases and brought to the residency for further post-production work. The candidate may have an idea in its infancy, needing further work and writing. Core curriculum for the guided lectures may include topics such as how to develop story ideas, film financing, developing a budget, approaching and working with sponsors, and a practical discussion of social media tools for marketing and fundraising. Artists may also work in small production groups as well, developing interviewing, research, and writing skills.
The structure of each day will be open to the mentoring artist’s discretion. However, Taylor will meet with candidates for at least four hours per day for guided lecture on various topics, group discussion, workshopping artists’ work, and demonstrations of editing, technique, and craft.
FSFF will provide a light breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day at Atlantic Center for the Arts. Every associate artist will be required to bring their own camera and editing equipment. Lodging must be handled by parents if under 18 years of age, and if over 18, ACA will be providing housing should the candidate choose to stay on-campus.
The cost of the workshop is $2,500 for on-campus lodging at ACA, and $2,100 if you do not need on-campus lodging. This DOES include a Patron Pass for the Florida Surf Film Festival. This includes a 2023 FSFF t-shirt, FSFF YETI Tumbler, and Clancy's Cantina dinner both nights at the festival. Your room on campus will be automatically extended, checking out on Sunday, June 18th.
Financial Aid:
If you are selected and you need financial assistance to attend, you may apply for need-based aid. We will require a copy of your most recent United States tax filing and/or bank statements or copies of recent pay stubs to ascertain need. If you live outside the USA, you will not be eligible for financial aid.
Residency Dates: Sunday, June 25 - July 15, 2023
Application Deadline: April 2, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST
Please note this is a themed residency titled Forums for Storytelling:
This ACA residency with visual artist Alteronce Gumby, interdisciplinary Helina Metaferia, and writer/curator Larry Ossei-Mensah will be an experience designed to unfurl the power of overlapping ideas, abstraction, the body, and materiality as forums for contemporary storytelling. This three-week residency will feature dedicated time with each mentor and group sessions organized for the collective to build comradery, learn, and listen to each other.
During the residency, the mentors seek to unpack a series of questions, including:
-How can the human body connect to physical materials?
-How can the body be energized through engagement with the material world?
-How can one use their body and materials to tell a story about their identity?
-How can writing, painting, or dance be abstracted?
-How can the act of painting be a dance and performance within itself?
-How can movement work and performance be a form of writing?
Residency Statement:
Our stories are not just content or subjects for our work, they can be a medium in which we create in itself. I am interested in forms of somatic studies and body based research, including performance and socially engaged practices, as either a generative sketch or the final form of a work, in order to cultivate these stories. I welcome all artists and makers across disciplines who want to incorporate a time-based element to their practice. Workshops will include interactive performance and social practice exercises, readings, discussion, critique, looking at contemporary practices, and hands-on studies in the field. The work you decide to make in your studio is up to you, in any medium, but ideally you'll be willing to stretch your practice by integrating the embodied experiences we do as a group.
Application Requirements, as specified by Mentoring Artist:
- CV
- Artist Statement
- 10 images or up to 10 minutes of time-based work (can also be any combination of this, 1 image = 1 minute, ex: 5 images and 5 minutes of work)
- 150 word response: Why would you like to attend this residency?
- 150 word response: What do you want to work on during your residency?
Residency Fee:
All residency fees, room, and board are waived; this does not include travel, transportation, and artist materials.
Application fee: $25
If you have any questions or problems submitting, visit the ACA's How to Apply page.