Residencies

SMUSH Arts Residencies offer artists the chance to enjoy the “gallery as studio,” with space for studio work, rehearsal, performance, and exhibition. Since Summer 2018, we’ve hosted dancers, writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, multidisciplinary artists, and curators.

How to Apply

Applications for Spring 2027 open October 1st!

Past Residency Artists

Summer 2026
Meredith Gill Hemphill, Visual Art
Katelyn Halpern, Multidisciplinary Art
Aurelia Luciano, Poetry & Visual Art
Marcus Emel, Poetry & Installation
Rachel Murdy, Performance

Winter 2025
Anne Tantuico, Dance

Summer 2025
Maya Vasquez, Visual Art
Gabe Chiarello, Curation
Bash Ortega, Visual Art
Sarah Liebau, Dance
Bethany Altschwager & Jay O’Brien, Music & Visual Art

Summer 2024
Nicole DeMaio, Music & Installation
Buttered Roll & Daniela Hernandez, Visual Art
Nancy Mendez-Booth, Writing
Bradley Frizzell, Music & Installation
Maeve McCullough, Visual Art
Ian King, Visual Art

Spring 2024
Buttered Roll, Visual Art

Summer 2023
Katelyn Halpern, Multidisciplinary Art
Heather Warfel Sandler, Multidisciplinary Art
Rachel Murdy, Performance

Summer 2021
Muhammad Moves and Artists, Dance
Reaction Dance Company NYC, Dance
Black Sheep Contemporary Ensemble, Music
coHERence, Dance
Aubin Niragira, Photography
Jacqueline Viola Moulton, Poetry
Candice Schnurr, Dance
Julie Opiel, Dance

Summer 2020
Benedicto Figueroa, Music & Poetry
Rita Jimenez, Light Installation
Heather Warfel-Sandler, Dance & Craft
Rachel Murdy, Performance & Visual Art
Anisa Rahim, Photography
Zach Herchen, Music

Summer 2019
Myssi Robinson, Visual Art
Sarah Rose, Dance
Nerissa Tutiven, Visual Art
Larissa Belcic, Landscape Architecture/Social Practice
Holly Ledbetter, Dance
Leslie Ann Kilpatrick, Dance/Pedagogy

Summer 2018
Grant Jacoby, Dance
Curet Performance Project, Dance
Valleto Dance, Dance
Sam Pullin + Noah Tavlin, Visual Art