ALABAMA AIR

This is a statewide partnership residency program that places artists in short-term project-based residencies throughout the state of Alabama.

ACAC works with partner sites across the state to place relevant projects and practices into underserved areas and research driven residency programs that tie to localized histories, community needs, and areas of specific interest.

Residency Structure

Program Format & Requirements

Generally speaking AIR programs are 3 week live/work commitments that take the local context into account. The total time awarded is determined by the project scope, and residency availability. Time can be broken up into up to three x 1 week sessions over the course of a year.

Project proposals should pose a driving research question they hope will be answered by their time in residency, and at least one public facing event or outcome should be proposed.

COMPENSATION

Selected AIRs will receive a $500 per week stipend for food, travel, plus a $1,500 honorarium at the end of the residency for the completion of a public-facing outcome.

Additional support for materials is sometimes awarded, based on the proposed project.

3 week award: $3,000

RESIDENCY RESOURCES

During the residency, ACAC provides support in several ways. We do site visits (when geographically possible) and Zoom check-ins, while offering feedback and critiques as artists’ work develops.

ACAC also assists artists with research, community connections, coordinating public facing programming, providing staffing and aiding in technical labor as needed, and promoting final outcomes and deliverables.

Partners

Partnership Sites are responsible for being their onsite liaison, providing thought leadership and assisting with physical needs for the use of space, identifies stakeholders and helps foster community connections, and provides a presenting venue for outcomes and deliverables.