Hi-ARTS ' Residencies Applications are Open

Hi-ARTS is now accepting residency applications for the Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 season!! We offer Artists of the Global Majority a space to experiment, play, and focus on their art through our CRITICAL BREAKS and SKY LAB residencies.

Founded in 2000 as the Hip-Hop Theater Festival and reemerging in 2011 as Hi-ARTS, we have been supporting artists for over twenty years. Through Artistic Support, Civic Engagement, Public Programming, and Creative Education, Hi-ARTS empowers Artists of the Global Majority to develop new work while creating a lasting impact on local and artistic communities.

• CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for Artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new theater and/or performance work. The residency aims to provide artists with time and space to concentrate on a specific project and/or element of a project. This is an ideal for works that have already been started, and/or have perhaps received some institutional support, but are still in need of additional concentrated focus, funding, and space. 

• SKY LAB supports artists who center the community in their artistic process.SKY LAB is for artists who center the community at the root of creative development, research, and consideration. This may include relationship building, deep listening and discussion, experience design, community collaboration, storytelling, and other interdisciplinary methods and practices that take place alongside and in relation to an artist’s identified community.

Both residencies culminate with a WORK IN PROCESS [WIP]. [WIP] programs are designed in collaboration with the Artist and Hi-ARTS. Past [WIP] programs have included exhibitions, staged readings, workshops, open rehearsals, and more! Hi-ARTS residency programs are focused on process rather than a final product or production, this is not a production, but rather an invitation for audiences to meet artists and experience their creative practice and process.