Artist in Residency

The AIR program is HCL’s flagship, 12-month residency that supports artists to create time-based work. Artists receive stipends, no-cost studio space, and documentation, along with tailored curatorial, development, and marketing support.

This residency is designed to meet artists where they are in their creative process: in research, development, workshop production, public presentation, post-premiere. HCL supports artists advancing their work with multiple or singular areas of focus, ranging from choreography to music composition, from community-activated social practice to filming, from writing and rehearsal to meetings and teaching—as part of the process or as the project itself.

Artists are selected through an annual open application process.

2024 Artists in Residence

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KT Shivak

Haruhi Kobayashi

Christopher Knowlton

Carissa Lee

Bradford Chin

2023 Artists in Residence

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Sofía Gabriel del Callejo

HCL is supporting Sofía to develop collective actions with collaborators from Mexico City and Chicago. She is also continuing Ciclos, a series of performances with Sofía Fernández Díaz that plays with the idea of performance as a ritual to honor the innate female connection with nature by creating large scale paintings using the body, organic materials and crafted tools.

Helen Lee

In her second year with HCL, Helen will use curiosity to pull apart and lean into joy and grief and find proliferation within them. She will experiment with risk and failure in the process of looking at grief and joy and to find play in the process of not knowing what will be discovered.

Regina Martinez

HCL continues to support Regina in developing an audio-visual live performance series guided by the name, holding stones. Each gathering presents a sound story set to experimentations with multi-channel light, shadow and video projection.

Allen Moore

HCL proudly supports Allen Moore in the ongoing development of The Black Arcade Collaborative, a groundbreaking audio and visual exploration delving into themes of grief, black mortality, afrofuturism, and the sonic aesthetic of the black imagination. The project encompasses a multifaceted approach, incorporating the merging of sound and visual elements.

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Photo Credit: Jansen Bridge