Residency Dates: Sunday, February 08, 2026 - Saturday, February 28, 2026

Application Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships may be available.

Residency Statement

This residency is focused on the creation and development of a new dance, music, and puppetry work. The work features Camille Saint-Saens' masterpiece, Carnival of the Animals and also a new sister musical work, Stephanie Ann Boyd's Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals. As a choreographer, my endeavor here is to build a beautiful new piece involving experienced and curious dance and theater artists. The content of the piece invites thought and action concerning preservation, and specifically the preservation and health of our planet's oceans and marine life. This is an artistic venture with an environmental heart. 

As music and puppetry are also integral parts of this residency, collaboration is central to our work. This residency is an opportunity to explore multi-disciplinary work. 

In addition to participating in the workshop of the Carnival project, resident participants are invited and encouraged to bring their own projects to the ACA. If you have a dance or movement-focused theater piece you would like to explore and develop, you will have time, space, and regular periods of mentored activity. Throughout the three weeks, there will be formal and informal opportunities to talk with each other about the various works being developed.

This residency may be of particular interest to those seeking experience with artistic collaboration, to those interested in climate activism, to those interested in local community engagement, and to those interested in immersive theater.
 Each day will involve a short warm-up in support of the Carnival project, and of the various projects at hand. 

Application Requirements

• Please submit a bio and resumé or CV.

• Please submit a short (1 paragraph - 1 page) statement about what inspired you to apply for this particular residency.

• Please submit a video of up to 5 min. of your dance or theater theater work (you are welcome to include multiple examples, and the work you share could include samples of you as a creator and/or performer).

Residency Dates: Sunday, February 08, 2026 - Saturday, February 28, 2026

Application Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships may be available.

Residency Statement

The climate crisis is upon us, and the arts play a critical role in galvanizing public support for policies that put people and planet over profit. For this residency, I would love to work with fellow musicians as well as artists from other mediums who want to use their unique skillset to help inspire action for our planet. 

Our work will be adjusted in accordance with the interests and skills of our group, but I expect our time together to be spent more or less as follows: 

1) Our main focus will be an upcoming project of my nonprofit, Ocean Music Action. This project combines music and dance to highlight global biodiversity loss. Our work may include music rehearsal of a new piece inspired by various endangered animals, for an ensemble that includes flute, violin, cello, bass, harp, and percussion. The music will be accompanied by dance and visual design, and my cohort will have the opportunity to engage with the other two Master Artists, choreographer John Heginbotham and designer Greg Corbino. We may decide to perform all or part of the work but our goal is exploration, not a complete final product. 

2) Our group will discuss and explore ideas and methods around artivism: activism through art. These discussions may draw upon readings and podcasts that will be shared in advance. I’d be very happy to dive deeper and explore your works-in-progress relating to this topic as well. 

3) We will learn about the natural history and ecology of the geographic region that we’ll be inhabiting for three weeks. We will connect with local conservation organizations for at least one, hopefully two or more, volunteer activities and/or educational opportunities. This residency is best suited to musicians who play flute, violin, cello, bass, harp, or percussion, as well as photographers and/or videographers who are interested in creating work around the fusion of arts, ecology, and climate action. 

Application Requirements

1. A brief bio or resumé.

2. Please describe your work and goals: what you do and what you’d like to do.

3. Two recent work samples that demonstrate range. These may include audio, video, scores, etc. Please compile all materials in a single PDF with links to any media you’d like to include. 

Residency Dates: Sunday, February 08, 2026 - Saturday, February 28, 2026

Application Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships may be available.

Residency Statement

This residency is focused on the creation and development of a new dance, music, and puppetry work. The work features Camille Saint-Saens' masterpiece, Carnival of the Animals and also a new sister musical work, Stephanie Ann Boyd's Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals. As a Designer/puppeteer, my endeavor here is to build a beautiful new piece involving experienced and curious puppet and theater artists. The content of the piece invites thought and action concerning preservation, and specifically the preservation and health of our planet's oceans and marine life. This is an artistic venture with an environmental heart. 

As music and dance are also integral parts of this residency, collaboration is central to our work. This residency is an opportunity to explore multi-disciplinary work. 

In addition to participating in the workshop of the Carnival project, resident participants are invited and encouraged to bring their own projects to the ACA. If you have a puppetry, design or movement-focused theater piece you would like to explore and develop, you will have time, space, and regular periods of mentored activity. Throughout the three weeks, there will be formal and informal opportunities to talk with each other about the various works being developed.

This residency may be of particular interest to those seeking experience with artistic collaboration, to those interested in climate activism, to those interested in local community engagement, and to those interested in immersive theater.

Each day will involve a short warm-up in support of the Carnival project, and of the various projects at hand. 

Application Requirements

• Please submit a bio and resumé or CV.

• Please submit a short (1 paragraph - 1 page) statement about what inspired you to apply for this particular residency.

• Please submit a video of up to 5 min. of your design, puppetry or theater work (you are welcome to include multiple examples, and the work you share could include samples of you as a creator and/or performer).
 

Residency Dates: Sunday, April 26, 2026 - Saturday, May 16, 2026

Application Deadline: Friday, January 23, 2026, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships may be available.

Residency Statement

I am very excited to work with artists and architects in any media. With the studio format as a mode of collaboration and feedback, we’ll meet as a group but will also have lots of time for individual conversations about your work. We can also engage with the ACA campus (its landscape, ecologies, habitats) and even the coastal environment around New Smyrna Beach.

I am interested in the process of making at the intersections of architecture and art (sculpture, painting, writing, photography, film, and kinetic architecture). I’m also fascinated with margins and boundaries—whether they are found at the edges of practice, space, time, or place. They might occur between land and water, past and future, temporary and permanent, memory and matter, thinking and making, designing and building, climate change and resilience, one discipline and another, or any other frontiers and confluences that might intrigue and inspire you.

The size and scope of your work can range from full-scale constructs to something the size of your hand, or even smaller. Outcomes can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, text-based, or a combination. Goals are to complete a focused project, but also to refine ways of working. I hope that both results will serve as springboards to imagination and to your future projects.

Application Requirements

(Your materials may be submitted in any of the following file formats; .docx, .pdf, .jpg).

 To be considered, please include the following items:

1. Bio
2. CV
3. Letter of intent that outlines your goals and a proposed project (300 word maximum)
4. Samples of previous work. This material can be submitted as a series of JPG’s (maximum of 15, limited to 5mb for each file) or as a single PDF (maximum of 15 pages). This dossier can include images of work, photographs, computer renderings, drawings, sketches, writing, and/or other media. Videos are also welcome (if longer than 10 minutes, please submit a link to the video in a PDF document).