About BAX’s Artist in Residence Program

Established in 1993, the AIR (Artist in Residence) program has supported over 70 dance, theater, and multidisciplinary performance artists across three decades. The program is designed as a process-oriented incubator, supporting artists who share BAX’s commitment to racial and cultural justice, whose work is still in development, and who are eager to deepen their artistic practice within a collaborative, cohort-based structure.

The AIR program centers artists with projects at a generative stage of development, offering time, space, and sustained institutional support to develop projects-in-progress before they enter larger production ecosystems. Rather than prioritizing polished outcomes, the program emphasizes inquiry, process, and peer exchange. Artists are supported through sustained advisory, production, and administrative guidance and are embedded within BAX’s multigenerational artistic environment. Many projects incubated through the Artist in Residence program have gone on to be fully realized in major venues nationally and internationally.

We intentionally do not define eligibility by career stage. Instead, we seek artists whose practice would benefit from the time, space, mentorship, and community that the residency provides. Cohorts may include artists who are early in their careers alongside artists with substantial national recognition.