Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Performing Artist in Residence program allows artists and visitors to experience the Garden through a different lens.
Donor Name: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 02/28/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The theme for the 2025 residency is Natural Connection.
Explore the relationship between humans and nature and their dynamic and sometimes fraught interdependence. Highlight how human actions reshape the environment, while nature’s responses and constant shifts influence human lives, ideas, emotions, and futures. Challenge the audience to think about their role and responsibility within this cycle, examining the human-nature relationship here in Brooklyn or beyond.
One artist will be selected for a residency in 2025. During the residency, the artist will spend time creating work in and inspired by the Garden and the theme, Natural Connection. They will host two public classes, seminars, or activities, then showcase their final work in September 2025.
- Residency Support
- Access to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden library and archives
- Research meetings with gardeners and staff
- Access to the Garden, including outside of public hours by arrangement
- Access to BBG’s events and programs
- A shared desk area and Wi-Fi
- Artist stipend of $8,000 plus additional funds for production & performer support.
Eligibility Criteria
- Discipline: Artists interested in the live performance world including (but not limited to) choreographers, dancers, musicians, playwrights, and theater makers.
- Artist must be a resident of New York City. This residency does not provide housing or transportation.
- Artist must respect the plant life and abide by Garden rules. A residency contract will be executed.
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an equal opportunity organization and encourages all eligible applicants to apply.
For more information, visit Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
