About the Residency
The Arts Center at Governors Island is home to year-round artist residency programs for artists working in any discipline. LMCC’s residency programs are a core part of our commitment to ensuring artists have free, collaborative space for creative development and production.
In this spirit, LMCC’s Arts Center Residency offers an eight-month studio-based residency to artists and creative practitioners who are working in any discipline and interested in engaging in a long-term residency focused on experimentation, ongoing development, and dialogue with fellow residents. LMCC welcomes applications from artists and creative practitioners whose practice is self-directed and process-based, and who would benefit from the resources that LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island has to offer as an incubator for research and interdisciplinary exchange.
Recognizing the need for a shared future that creatively addresses climate change, and considering the Arts Center at Governors Island’s unique location at the heart of the New York Harbor, the 2025 Arts Center Residency welcomed artists and creative practitioners whose work was concerned with the broader themes of climate justice, the environment, sustainability, and urban ecology. Artists were invited to explore these thematic anchors, using Governors Island as a site for exploration, collaboration, and experimentation.
The 2025 Arts Center Residency has now ended. Information on the 2026 Residencies will be added shortly.
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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