The Creative Container residency is awarded to an artist whose work in community and moving culture forward can be further catalyzed by studio space. Through progress showings, critical discourse, and a culminating project, the studio residency provides a platform for artists who are deeply engaged in a creative practice that includes a diverse set of voices and perspectives.

This artist residency is 15 weeks and includes studio space, 10 hours of guidance and consultation around space affordability for artists as requested, and an artist stipend of $7,000 inclusive of materials and artist fee.

Artists in the Creative Container join a dynamic community of artists and cultural workers participating in CAST programs such as our Cultural Space Ambassadors, Dreaming Spaces, and Keeping Space. This network of artists, residents, architects, city leaders, and community advocates are working to address the immediate needs of affordable and accessible space for artists, as well as creative placekeeping models.

Artists selected for this program are at all career stages and work in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary, social practice, and architecture.