Welcome to Atlantic Center for the Arts programs submissions page. We are currently accepting applications for open calls listed below. Carefully read application(s) as requirements and qualifications vary each program.
Please note: You cannot edit your submission after it has been completed. It is recommended that you create a backup of your application materials and review before uploading and submitting on Submittable. You are allotted one application per program.
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Residency Dates: Sunday, October 05, 2025 - Saturday, October 25, 2025
Application Deadline: Sunday, August 8, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST
Scholarships are available that will greatly reduce the residency fee.
Residency Statement
In imagining a three-week period of working together, I suggest:
We start each day with a warm up – I will lead us through what I have been using as a technical maintenance series for many years.
Approximately 90 minutes.
We continue with creative ideas:
• I’d like to work on a new piece and would be very happy to have you take part and collaborate in it!
(There will be a performance opportunity at the end of the 3 weeks).
• Opportunities for all to create new work and receive feedback. Suggestions and ideas about space from which to create works utilizing the spatial ideas of Adjacent, Against, Upon; Spatial Relations; A Closed Field
• Please come with the idea of creating something (solo or with the other dancers) or to continue with something you already have in progress.
Let’s look and discuss each other's work.
Application Requirements
Please include the following items in your proposal:
1. Please describe your work, what you’ve been making and what you want to make.
2. A video or two of work that you feel most represents your artistry.
(link to Vimeo, YouTube, or a download via WeTransfer).
3. A recent resume or CV.
Residency Dates: Sunday, October 05, 2025 - Saturday, October 25, 2025
Application Deadline: Sunday, August 8, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST
Scholarships are available that will greatly reduce the residency fee.
Residency Statement
Composing can be a deeply solitary act—but the moments of greatest artistic growth in my life have come not in isolation, but in dialogue: when colleagues, collaborators, or mentors challenged me to go deeper, reach higher, and make more meaningful art.
At the Atlantic Center for the Arts, I look forward to being part of that kind of creative community. I’m eager to share techniques, craft, and insight from my own experience—across classical, jazz, folk, and beyond—but just as eager to support artists whose work moves in radically different directions. Whether you’re writing for instruments, voice, electronics, or blending genres, my aim is to help you sharpen your artistic vision while staying true to your intuition and creative voice.
Improvisation and exploration are central to my own process, and I believe many of the deepest principles—of balance, resonance, harmony—transcend genre and even medium. While this residency is designed primarily for music creators, I’m also open to working with an artist from another field whose process overlaps in meaningful ways.
Creating often means stepping into the unknown, and I look forward to stepping into that space together—offering guidance, feedback, and support, and remaining open to discovery myself through the process.
Application Requirements
- A brief bio or resume.
- A short statement about what you hope to explore or create during the residency.
- Two recent work samples that reflect your creative voice and range. These may include audio, video, scores, or any combination, accompanied by relevant context (e.g., program notes or descriptions). Please compile all materials into a single PDF with links to any media you’d like to include.
Residency Dates: Sunday, October 05, 2025 - Saturday, October 25, 2025
Application Deadline: Sunday, August 8, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST
Scholarships are available that will greatly reduce the residency fee.
Residency Statement I am interested in working with a cohort to create a space of bravery—where we feel empowered enough to be our bravest selves, to take risks in our artmaking, to embody what it would feel like for us to be fearless in the pursuit of our craft. All genres of writing are welcome (screenwriting, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama), and artists should be interested in pushing themselves out of their comfort zones and engaging in practices that get in touch with their intuitive and spiritual center.
Application Requirements
1. Submit up to 10 pages of writing or a short film no longer than 10 minutes
2. CV
3. A letter of intent that answers: Who are you, and what communities are you a part of/do you honor in your work? What are you contending with around fear in your art making? Where is fear stealing your voice? What do you need to be brave in this moment? What is the vision you see for yourself as an artist? How does your artistic practice counter the violence of the state? What does being an artist mean to you?
Residency Dates: Sunday, October 05, 2025 - Saturday, October 25, 2025
Application Deadline: Sunday, August 8, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST
Scholarships are available that will greatly reduce the residency fee.
Residency Statement
Composing can be a deeply solitary act—but the moments of greatest artistic growth in my life have come not in isolation, but in dialogue: when colleagues, collaborators, or mentors challenged me to go deeper, reach higher, and make more meaningful art.
At the Atlantic Center for the Arts, I look forward to being part of that kind of creative community. I’m eager to share techniques, craft, and insight from my own experience—across classical, jazz, folk, and beyond—but just as eager to support artists whose work moves in radically different directions. Whether you’re writing for instruments, voice, electronics, or blending genres, my aim is to help you sharpen your artistic vision while staying true to your intuition and creative voice.
Improvisation and exploration are central to my own process, and I believe many of the deepest principles—of balance, resonance, harmony—transcend genre and even medium. While this residency is designed primarily for music creators, I’m also open to working with an artist from another field whose process overlaps in meaningful ways.
Creating often means stepping into the unknown, and I look forward to stepping into that space together—offering guidance, feedback, and support, and remaining open to discovery myself through the process.
Application Requirements
- A brief bio or resume.
- A short statement about what you hope to explore or create during the residency.
- Two recent work samples that reflect your creative voice and range. These may include audio, video, scores, or any combination, accompanied by relevant context (e.g., program notes or descriptions). Please compile all materials into a single PDF with links to any media you’d like to include.