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About the Program
The Arts Institute’s Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program
is made possible by the University’s Cluster Hire Initiative. This initiative
allows the Arts Institute to fund an ongoing series of extended artist
residencies for the benefit of all University arts departments, programs
and the public.
These extended residencies complement current short-term
residencies, in which arts departments bring in visitors to perform,
direct, conduct master classes and other activities to enrich their respective
programs. The Arts Institute residencies are interdisciplinary
in scope and bring in artists for extended periods to work with students
on more ambitious projects. The program also provides course credit and
strengthens programmatic ties among departments.
Current Artist in Residence
Past Artists in Residence
Juan Felipe Herrera - Spring 2008 (short residency)
Ales Brezina - Spring 2008 (short residency)
 Judith Helfand/Sarita Siegel - Fall 2007
Environmental Film Makers
 Ute Ritschel - Spring 2007
Truly interdisciplinary and international, Ute Ritschel’s work combines art, performance art, environmental studies, and cultural anthropology. Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Spoken-Word Artist - Spring 2007
Internationally-renowned spoken word artist, Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of an emerging class of hip-hop theater artists. He uses theater; West African, tap, and modern dance; spoken word poetry; and live music to stretch the bounds of traditional hip-hop and create a new forum for expressive performance art. Matthew Buckingham - Spring 2006
New York-based artist who utilizes photography, film, video, audio, writing,
and drawing to question the role social memory plays in contemporary life. Gunther Schuller - Fall 2005
World-renowned composer, conductor, performer, educator, record producer
and music publisher.  Michael Brenson - Fall 2004
Brenson has played several roles in the art world in the past twenty-five
years: author and critic, teacher, curator, editor, and conscience
of the art establishment. Janet Morton - Spring 2004
Toronto-based artist Janet Morton transforms public spaces using materials
and techniques generally associated with private, more domestic places.
Morton extends knitting and sewing on to architecture and nature, playfully
examining issues of excess and anthropomorphization: the desire to
give all things human attributes. Garrison Roots - Spring 2004
Artist Garrison Roots is best known for his large-scale installation work that leaves nothing to chance. Major architectural changes, such as a new floor, new walls and ceiling are common alterations Roots makes to an exhibition space that invite the viewer to embark upon a sensual, albeit unfamiliar, journey. If Roots had not become an artist, his installations point to an imagination large enough to fill the halls of Disney. Richard Gough - Fall 2003
Gough has dedicated the last 28 years to developing and exploring interdisciplinary,
experimental performance work.  Ben Sidran - Spring 2003
Jazz pianist of international renown, lyricist of a rock classic, award-winning
national broadcaster, record and video producer, scholar, author, journalist,
and father to a second generation musical prodigy, Sidran has been
a major player in modern jazz, rock and pop for over forty years. John Santos - Spring 2002
One of the foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music in the
world today John Santos' ground-breaking work brings together styles,
rhythms, concepts and artists from different generations. Tony Buba - Fall 2001
Tony Buba is one of the most unique voices working in American independent
filmmaking. With humor, compassion, and a complete dedication
to the working-class heroes of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania,
Buba has created a body of work which documents the rise and fall of
a steel town with unblinking accuracy.  Peter Sís - Summer 2001
An internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker, Czechoslovakian-born
Peter Sís has decorated everything from the New York City subway
tunnels to scores of favorite children's books. Ping Chong - Spring 2001
Whether as a theater or performance maker, choreographer, videographer,
or installation artist, Chong has consistently produced art that challenges
audiences' preconceptions and rewards their serious engagement.  Pauline Oliveros - Spring 2001
After fifty years of composition and teaching, Oliveros continues
to break new ground, challenging listeners, performers and composers
to rethink and reconfigure their relationships with music and, even
more fundamentally, their relationships with sound itself. Clinton Turner Davis - Fall 2000
Clinton Turner Davis has been a force in American theater for 30 years,
as a director, producer, dramaturg, consultant, advocate, and production
and company managerìor. Stuart Gordon - Spring 2000
From his 1985 debut as a cult-horror director with "Re-Animator" to
his 2002 H.P. Lovecraft film "Dagon" Stuart
Gordon has consistently delivered quality horror to the masses, and
is now considered by many of us to be one of the most important fear
film-makers of the past 35 years. Yet, a look at the whole of his career,
beginning at the University of Wisconsin, reveals an artist with a
uniquely wide range of interests, whose work displays mastery of several
genres.  John Szarkowski - Spring 2000
During the three decades as director of the Department of Photography
of Museum of Modern Art in New York, Szarkowski made unparalleled contributions
to the fields of photographic criticism, history, and theory and is
considered one of the world's leading theorists and historians
of photography  Nick Cave - Fall 1999
Nick Cave is best known for his sculptural costumes which he exhibits
in art galleries and for his ritualistic costumes which he and other
dancers wear for live performances and videos.
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