About the Arts Center Residency
The Arts Center at Governors Island is home to a year-round residency program that serves as an incubator for research and interdisciplinary exchange. The Arts Center Residency lets artists focus on experimentation, ongoing development, and dialogue with fellow residents.
Participating artists work across artistic disciplines – visual, performing, and literary – and engage the social, environmental, and civic dimensions of our changing world. This and all of LMCC’s residency programs are a core part of our commitment to ensuring artists have free, collaborative space for creative development and production.
As in previous sessions, the 2026 Arts Center Residency will foster creative exploration for projects at the intersection of art and climate. The eight-month studio-based residency provides artists with individual work space, stipend for materials, and access to two rehearsal studio facilities. Residents are able to be in ongoing dialogue with fellow residents while also participating in Open Studios, Climate Week, and other Arts Center and LMCC programming.
The 2026 Arts Center Residency is by nomination only and currently in process.
Through the nomination process, artists were invited to submit proposals for projects across artistic disciplines that engage climate. Resident Artists will be announced in Spring 2026.
If you have additional questions, contact Esther Nguyen, Program Manager, Artist Residencies at ArtRes@lmcc.net or (212) 981-2247 from 10am-6pm Monday to Friday.
LMCC’s Arts Center Residency program is supported, in part, by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Tiger Baron Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
The Arts Center Residency is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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