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.
The 2026 Arts Center Residency fosters creative exploration for projects at the intersection of art and climate. The eight-month studio-based residency provides artists with individual work space, a stipend for materials, and access to two rehearsal studio facilities. Residents engage in ongoing dialogue with one another while also participating in Open Studios, Climate Week, and other LMCC programming.
The 2026 cohort was selected through a closed nomination process. To learn about our selection process and nominators, see more information below.
2026 Residents
The 2026 Arts Center Residency cohort includes 18 artists, one On-Site Assistant, and, for the first time, two Scholars-in-Residence from Stony Brook University and an Organization-in-Residence: Seaweed City.
2026 marks the inaugural year of a new partnership with Stony Brook University and Seaweed City, expanding the residency as a platform for sustained climate inquiry across artistic and academic disciplines.
LMCC's 2026 Arts Center Residents are Garrett Allen, Rachel Garber Cole, Nicole Cooper, RedMoon Arts Movement Inc, Duy Hoàng, Derek Lee McPhatter, Tijay Mohammed, Sari Nordman, Sabrina Merayo Nuñez, Phoebus Osborne, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Gabriela Salazar, Lisa Ann Schonberg, Sara Stern, Nora Treatbaby, Tanika I. Williams, Darla Migan (Stony Brook University) Nobuho Nagasawa (Stony Brook University), Seaweed City, (Organization-in-Residence), and Noga Cohen (On-Site Assistant).
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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.