AS220 Residency
AS220 houses a communal residential space in our 115 Empire Street Complex. One studio in this communal floor is reserved for a Visiting Artists in Residence pursuing a focused project at AS220. The residency is either one month or two weeks. The artists make use of AS220’s facilities and share their work with our community, inspiring conversation and innovation throughout the city. This is an urban residency in the middle of Downtown Providence. The artists stays in a studio apartment in a floor that houses 11 other artists sharing a communal kitchen and two bathrooms.
AIRs are scheduled VIA INVITATION by one of our staff members, who serve as both the starting point for a potential proposal and a point person for the visiting artist. We do not offer a formal application for our AIR program. We ask the artists for a one-page project proposal that describes why the project should be done at AS220, how it would enhance our creative community, and how the residency will benefit the artist.
Each project must have a public component, which can take the form of an artist talk, a performance, a one-day flash exhibit or another means of sharing the work with the community. We are especially interested in participatory and multi-disciplinary collaborations between visiting artists and the multiple communities that make up Rhode Island’s diverse population.
AS220’s Artist Residency program is currently on hold.
Visiting Artists-in-Residence
AIR 2015
Leslie Rogers //Sculpture Mixed Media // December
Darrell DS Kinsel // October
Mitch Altman // September
Karina Puente // painting and printmaking // July
Kiernan Dunn // printmaker // June
Hannah Thompson // performance art // May
Charlene Wooten // April
Eric Loundy // visual artist // March
Samantha Robinson // painter // January
AIR 2014
Arlee Woodworth // painter
Leah Beeferman // printmaker // February
Deb Berman // participatory arts
Alice Mizrachi // print and installation
John Bonanni // poet
Maite Josune & Tony Kapel // musicians and printmaker
Rob Duarte // film and fabrication
Lauren Schleider // printmaker
James Rutter // fabrication
Benjamin Lundberg // performance art
AIR 2013
Sounion Hong // printmaker & video // South Korea
Ramiro Davaro-Comas // visual artist & illustrator // Argentina
Alex Lukas // printmaker
Kwame Scruggs // Alchemy Inc. // performance and media
Alexis Granwell // printmaker
Marci Washington // visual artist
Neil Salkind // printmaker
Xander Marro // FOO FEST Artist in Residence!
Kate Rushin // poet
Omni Zonafranca (Cuba) // performance & multi-genre // Cuba
Christina DeRoos & Thomas Bell // Spread Art // performance & media
Naomi Sultanik // bookmaking
Visiting AIR Bobby Rosenstock working at the Printshop
AIR 2012
Rachel Hamburg
Bobby Rosenstock // printmaker
Diego Gomez (aka Trangela Lansbury) // illustrator & fashion designer
Veronica Orozco
Chaminda Gamage & T.P.G. Amarajeewa (Sri Lanka) // visual artists // Sri Lanka
Danny Floyd // photography
Dennis McNett aka Wolfbat Studio // FOO FEST Artist in Residence!
Julianny Ariza (Dominican Republic) // sculptor // Dominican Republic
Javier Hurtado // performance & chicano drag
Chris Fritton // printmaker and performance
- Mask Making Workshop led by visiting artist Dennis McNett of Wolfbat Studio during an August 2012 residency
Masked parade and wooden Viking Ship by Dennis McNett in collaboration with AS220 Industries, Foo Fest 2012
AIR 2011
Michael Childress
Charlotte De Sédouy
Lauren Denitzio
Huáscar Robles // photo journalism // Puerto Rico
Devin King & Caroline Picard // writers & bookmakers
Reynier Ferrer (Cuba) // abstract painter // Cuba
AIR 2010
Angee Lennard (Sputnik Press)
Shaun Slifer & Bec Young (Just Seeds)
Hana Van Der Kolk
Gareth Averill
Colin Matthes of Just Seeds
Jimmie Rodgers
Sanford Kogan & Tamara Waite-Santibanez
Jesjit Gill
Amery Kessler
A few of the many library-inspired paintings/sculptures in the “Liberal Arts” series, the product of William Buzzell’s 2009 residency at AS220.
AIR 2009
Daniella Ben-Bassat
Helena Thompson
Francesca Lohmann
Pippin Frisbie-Calder
William Buzzell
Kate Tessa Lee
Erik Ruin (Reuland) // printmaker & shadow puppets
Maia Ibar And Maura Murnane
Dan(imal)
Chris Gould
Alex Fields
James Mercer
AIR 2008
Nick Fox-Gieg
Txutxo
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Necole Zayatz
Caroline Pequita
Mitch Altman
Mary Tremonte (DJ Mary Mack)
Panayiotis Terzis
Lauren O’Connor
Alison Naturale
AIR 2007
Gary Robbins
Keith Munslow // The Empire Revue ; theater & music
Julia Thompson & Alyssa Berg
Detritus // “Just an Artist/Not an Artist” performance & visual art // Spain
AIR 2006
Scott Seyboldt
Lauren Anderson
Stefan Neville
AIR 2005
Dennis Tyfus
Stefano Pilia
Robert Janitz
Venus Irving Prescott (Camp Cabaret)
AIR 2004
Michelle LeBrun
Jane Philbrick
Mark Kemble
AIR 2002
Garland Farwell
Cynthia Hopkins
AIR 2001
Jim Finnerty
Scotty the Blue Bunny
Jay Critchley
AIR 2000
Rebecca Belmore & Osvaldo Yero
Lynne Yamamoto
Ernesto Pujol
AIR 1999
Luisa Marisol – RI Cuba Exchange (RICE)
AIR 1994
Donald King
