Artists in Residence
The AIR program is HCL’s flagship residency that supports artists to create time-based work. Artists receive stipends and no-cost studio space, along with tailored access to HCL’s full producing, development, and communications resources, and more.
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 invited to apply annually, and may be joined by Residents curated by HCL’s Artistic Director. HCL additionally opens portions of this residency to artists in participating partner programs who may benefit from HCL’s support. Such partners include Chicago Dancemakers Forum and 3Arts.
Sadie Woods
Sadie Wood’s art practice is anthropological in nature and rooted in a post-disciplinary background drawing from personal biography as well as performing and visual arts training, curatorial experience and academic education. As an artist, curator, dj and professor, she works heavily with archives for research and interventions to produce work that embodies liberatory practices exploring cultural heritage of the Americas and Global South. For Sadie, art is a utility for messaging and storytelling that can give rise to social empowerment.
