Performing Artist in Residence 2025 Application
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Performing Artist in Residence program allows artists and visitors to experience the Garden through a different lens.
Check back in January for information about the 2025 residency.
Past Artists in Residence
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2024 Artist in Residence: Patrick Costello
In 2024, Brooklyn Botanic Garden hosted Patrick Costello as artist in residence. During his residency, Costello led a family-friendly hand-puppet workshop, conducted a community chorus in the Garden, and created an immersive and participatory processional performance called The Holes are Alive: A Garden Tour focused on plants and pollinators.
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2023 Artist in Residence: Kamala Sankaram
From June through September 2023, Brooklyn Botanic Garden hosted Kamala Sankaram as artist in residence. Drawing inspiration from trees in our collection, tree care and caretakers, and the symbolism of trees as places of gathering, shelter, and culture, Sankaram created two new pieces inspired by the Garden’s 2023 theme, Power of Trees.
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2022 Artist in Residence: Jean-René Delsoin
During his summer 2022 residency, Delsoin’s study of BBG’s gardens, plants, trees, and wildlife along with Haitian culture, traditions, and heritage informed a work created and presented in collaboration with NYC-based dance and drum practitioners.
APPLICATION
Eligibility
- 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.
Application Components
- Portfolio of 3–5 pieces of work
- Resume
- Written proposal including:
- Performance ideas integrating the 2024 theme
- Public engagement ideas
- Artist’s relation to or interest in botanic subject matter
- Anticipated needs for residency supplies, equipment, and space
Selection
- Applications will be reviewed by a committee composed of Brooklyn Botanic Garden staff, previous artists in residence, and Brooklyn Committee.
- Selection is based on the applicant’s proposal of performance relating to the Natural Attraction theme and relation to or interest in botanic subject matter.
Applications open in January. Please check back.
Support
Art in the Garden is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
