2021 Summer Residency Application
Sunset Art Studios, in partnership with the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture Community Arts Non-Profit Residency Program, announces our Summer 2021 Residencies. Two artists will each be awarded a $2,000 honorarium for an 8 week residency over June-July and August-September, 2021. Each resident will be asked to work in assigned City Council Districts, either D10 or D12, and respond to environmental issues of our time. Such topics could include environmental racism, access to healthy food, air, and water, the impact of human activity on area ecosystems, equitable engagement with the land, etc. Any artists interested in these issues as well as topics of urban sprawl, access to cultural resources, immigration, concrete development vs. green space, sustainable housing, or gerrymandering are encouraged to apply. Artists will be asked to create new work in response to these issues and actively engage local communities in their processes on a weekly basis. Programming will be coordinated by Sunset Art Studios to partner with area libraries and green spaces. Weekly programs should provide opportunities for Dallas residents to obtain instruction by skilled local artists on artistic and cultural disciplines centered around an ALAANA culture and/or experience. Applications will be juried by Ciara Elle Bryant, a curator and multidisciplinary creative residing in Dallas, TX. She uses photography and mixed media techniques to discuss the identity of black culture and how it exists in the new millennium. Bryant is a 2020 Sunset Fellow and winner of the inaugural CADD x Maddrey PLLC Artist Prize. Applications are due by 11:59pm May 27th, 2021