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Steffani Jemison: Open Rehearsal Artist-in-Residence

About the Artist:

Steffani Jemisonis an interdisciplinary artist and writer. In dialogue with interlocutors (living and ancestral), her work connects mark-making, gesture, projection, movement, and document. In 2026, her work is included in solo and group exhibitions at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE; the Moody Center, Houston, TX; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Buffalo AKG, Buffalo, NY; and the Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA; among other venues. Jemison’s work is...

Open Rehearsal

Open Rehearsal | Artists-in-Residence

Over the next three years, the ARC will welcome artists who consider their making a mode of thought, and scholars whose thinking emerges from a practice, all experimenting with what research can look like when it is made rather than written. Each residency is shaped with the artist, following where their work and interests lead, unfolding across performances, workshops, and conversations on process. Residents return over three years, part of a shared project that holds them in each other's orbit and in that of practitioners across campus. In 2029, a festival gathers the AIRs, working groups,...

Jasper Marsalis: Open Rehearsal Artist-in-Residence

About the Artist:

Jasper Marsalis works across painting, sculpture, music and text to elaborate a parallel between the space of the artwork and a performer on stage, both of which entail an experience of being consumed by audiences. Glaring spotlights are depicted throughout his work, obscuring their intended objects and acting as obstacles to vision. The tension of impermeability is mirrored in the sculptures whose surface fractures seem to chisel at opacity. By troubling perception, Marsalis interrogates the ocular centrism of visual art and the associated...

Imani Mason Jordan: Open Rehearsal Artist-in-Residence

About the Artist:

Imani Mason Jordan is an interdisciplinary writer, editor, artist and curator interested in performance and poetics. Their doctoral research focuses on racial capitalism and carceral logics through the work of Stuart Hall. In their poetic practice, Mason Jordan uses improvisation, minimalist technique and black study to choreograph language. They are also one half of the artist duo repertoire.

Jessie Cox: Open Rehearsal Artist-in-Residence

About the Artist:

Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University and a composer, drummer, and scholar. His first monograph, Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices (Duke UP, 2025), explores how experimental musical practices and thinking with Blackness open alternative ways of worlding. Cox’s practice spans avant-garde classical music, experimental jazz, and sound art. He has worked with ensembles and institutions such as the Sun Ra Arkestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Klangforum Wien at festivals such as...

Drew Woodson

2025 ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency AIR, Playwright
Drew Woodson was a Playwright-in-Residence with ARC through the Indigenous Performing Arts Residency in April 2025. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Drew Woodson is a Western Shoshone playwright based in New York City. He has had his work read in multiple theaters across New York, including Rattlestick Theater where he was asked to open the first annual Northeastern Native Arts Festival with his play “Your Friend, Jay Silverheels.” For this same work, Drew was named Yale's Young Indigenous Playwright of 2021. More recently...

Reggie Wilson

2005/6 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Choreographer
Reggie Wilson was the 2005-2006 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Reggie Wilson (Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer, Performer) founded Fist & Heel Performance Group, in 1989. Wilson draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he often calls “post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances.”

His work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues such as Brooklyn...

Fred Wilson

2002/3 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Fine Artist
Fred Wilson was the 2002-2003 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Fred Wilson is renowned for his interdisciplinary practice that challenges assumptions of history, culture, race, and conventions of display. By reframing objects and cultural symbols, he alters traditional interpretations, encouraging viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives.

Wilson’s early work was directed at marginalized histories, exploring how models of categorization, collecting, and display exemplify...

Marianne Weems

Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz
Marianne Weems is the 2007-2008 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Marianne Weems is a theater and opera director and founder of the award-winning New York-based theater company The Builders Association, an influential ensemble that has created a significant body of work at the forefront of integrating media with live performance. With the company, she has created and directed 17 original large-scale productions and worked with unexpected collaborators including the architects Diller + Scofidio, The...