In 2018, SPACE received a record-breaking 1,112 applications for our residency programs, representing 2,092 individuals. Due to the overwhelming number of exceptional applications we encountered during the 2018 selection process, SPACE is publishing--for the first time--a list of finalists for all our individual and small group residencies. We believe these artists and these projects represent some of the most exciting artists today.

The Working Farm

Masi Asare, Hilary Bettis, Benjamin Benne, Liza Birkenmeier, Lydia Blaisdell, William Burke, J. Julian Christopher, Vichet Chum, Michael Yates Crowley, Zackary Grady, Adam Gwon, Trish Harnetiaux, Lindsay Joy, Anchuli Felicia King, Sarah B. Mantell, Drew Paryzer, Andrew Rosendorf, Jordan Seavey, Amy Staats, Caitlin Saylor Stephens, Cherry Lou Sy, Kate Tarker, Emily Zemba

Family Residency

Annielille "Ani" Gavino, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Dee Hibbert-Jones, Aaron Landsman, Stephanie Nasteff, 
Kristen Palmer, Lilliam Rivera, Deidre Rodman Struck, Nomi Talisman, Darrah Teitel, Amber West

GREEnhouse residency

Nkenna Akunna, Jim Bulluck, Phoebe Farber, Kim George, Abraham Johnson, Katelynn Kenney, Garrett David Kim,
Tori Lassman, Kevin C. Lo, Dani Martineck, Morgan McGuire, Joél Pérez, Ankita Raturi, Nate James Shelton, Ry Szelong 

creative residency

As our broadest residency program, serving a wide range of projects and disciplines each year, the largest number of applications SPACE receives each year are for Creative Residencies. The finalists listed represent capture the range of exceptional projects we received in 2018.

Scott Adkins (Untitled), Evvie Allison with Will Davis, Basil Kreimendahl & Lissy Kreimendahl (Untitled), Scotty Arnold (Vera Laughed), Lucas Baisch with Josiah Davis (dog food 4 boys), Bandits on the Run with Sydney Shepherd, Regina Strayhorn & Adrian Enscoe (Untitled), Vimi Bajaj (Vermilion), Michelle Beck (The Others), Jamie Beckenstein (will), Ben Beckley with Nate Weida, Jess Chayes, Stephen Aubrey, Nick Benacerraf and The Assembly (Bartleby in the Castle), Suzanne Benton (Art book/memoir: Spirit of Hope), Eliza Bent (Indeed, Friend!), Zak Berkman, Stuart Carden, Jessie Fisher & Mary Tuomanen (Such Things As Vampires), Kate M. Blomquist (How to Stop a Flood), Britt Bonney (Montgomery), Paul Thureen, Hannah Bos & Oliver Butler (Untitled Debate Society Project), Casey Boykins (Black's Anonymous), Emily Brandt (Air Age), Mattie Brickman (Tell All), Leila Buck with Noelle Ghoussaini, Caitlin Cassidy, Gamze Ceylan, Louis Sallan and Jens Rasmussen, Pirronne Yousefzadeh, Gamze Ceylan, Victoria Nassif, Louis Sallan & Max Woertendyke (American Dreams and Arabian Nights), Andrew R. Butler (Radio Free Mars), Conlan Carter (Untitled), Michelle Cheever (Seva Means Selfless Service), Shayok Misha Chowdhury with Kameron Neal (Blowfly), Kevin Connor with Emily Joy Weiner, Ian Eaton, Zuleyma Guevara & Camilo Almonacid (Families of Incarceration), John Coons (Those Carried), Katherine Cooper (Seeing White), Erin Courtney with Ellie Heyman & Max Vernon (The Tattooed Lady), Jack Cummings III (Make Way for Tomorrow), Neil D'Astolfo with Noah Averbach-Katz (Mister Miss America), Sandra Daley (The Island Bull's Wife), Eva DeVirgilis with Lisa Rothe (In My Chair), nicHi douglas ((pray)), Margaret Douglas (To Be Rosalind), Anna Driftmier (Scraww), Michelle Elliott with Danny Haengil Larsen (American Orlando), Evan Enderle with Avi Amon & Gregg Wiggans (Discouraging Stories for Lonely People), Kareem Fahmy with Salma S. Zohdi (The Yacoubian Building), Emily Feldman with Joshua Brody (here is Everybody // You Monster), Gina Femia (Bird Bones), Ryan Fogarty (by u, bye you, bayou), Nick Gandiello with Katie Lupica (Cicada), Vanessa Garcia with Victoria Collado, Zakiya Markland, Carolyn Kettig & Keshav Moodliar (1000 Miles), Alixa Garcia (Shadow Boxing), Justine Gelfman with Susanna Wolk (The Technicians), Daniel Goldstein with Mary Sweeney (The Straight Story), Chad Goodridge with Nikko Benson (The Untitled Tethering Project), Ryan J. Haddad with Danny Sharron (Good Time Charlie), Molly Hagan with Ryan Dowler (Untitled Screenplay). Sharone Halevy with Kate Mulley (Damascus. It's in Syria), Rebecca Hart with Nick Stephens (Darling Jack), Nile Harris with Garrett Parker (Body Number 6), Robbin Légère Henderson ("Thought Criminal"), Hideaway Circus with Josh Aviner, Lyndsay Magid Aviner & Spencer Novich (Party Starters), Suli Holum and Nicki Pombier Berger (The Bakken), Lily Houghton (Untitled), Kevin Hourigan with Wes House (Hammer), Jessica Huang with Aaron Gabriel (Kim Loo Sisters Musical), Sean Hudock with Deborah Yarchun & Illana Stein (The White Rose Project), Michael R. Jackson (Identity Politics), Russell G. Jones with Elz Cuya Jones, Maurice Wingfield, Helen Cuya & Bolden Jones (Jonesin'), Rachel Karp (It's In The Bag), MJ Kaufman with Ellie Heyman, Becca Blackwell & Diana Oh (Untitled), Donna Kaz (The Power of the Push), Isaac Klein with James Stewart & Brian Sutow (Cyrano, a new hip hop musical),  Marie Myung-Ok Lee (Working Title: An Unfilial Son), Melissa Li with Kit Yan, Jessi D. Hill & Natasha Sinha (Interstate), Reverend Yolanda Roger Anthony Mapes, Eric Tipler & Justin Taylor (The Church of the Alien Love Child Presents The Passion of Reverend Yolanda), Ashley Marinaccio and Janet Bentley (Addicted America), Matt Mason (Nebraska), Emily Mendelsohn (Hills of Salt and Sugar), Anna Moench with Jesca Prudencio & Leviathan Lab (Man of God), Genne Murphy, Mara Nelson-Greenberg (Untitled), Eli Nixon with Anne Cecelia Haney, Raja Feather Kelly & Matthew Schreiber (Blood Bag), Diana Oh (Hot Sauce Water), Melissa Jane Osborne (Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce), Tara Pandeya with Karla Kane (Circumambulating Spirals), Chana Porter with Adam Greenfield & Ted Hearne (We Are Radios), Louisa Thompson Pregerson with Flako Modesto Jimenes & Adin Walker (Workshop!), Ashley Robinson with Nate Weida, Steph Del Ross with Jaki Bradley (You're Crazy (a play with karaoke)), Annie Saunders (The System), Alec Seymour (A Roar of Bored Alice), Rona Siddiqui with Marshall Paillet, Kayla Friend & John Albert Harris (Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan), Crystal Skillman with Margot Bordelon (Pulp Vérité), Diana Small with James Hapke, Heather Johnson, Marie Ponce & Paige Tautz (Salvage Vanguard Theater), Jonathan Spector (This Much I Know), Georgia State (All One), Mark Stuart with Jaime Verazin, Christopher Windom & Marc Heitzman (Standard Time), Jeff Tang (Such Strange Gravity: Songs of Gotham), The TEAM with Brenda Abbandandolo, Jessica Almasy, Denée Benton, Jhanaë Bonnick, Frank Boyd, Vinie Burrows, Rachel Chavkin, André De Shields, Jerome Ellis, Jill Frutkin, Amber Gray, Jeremy O. Harris, Matt Hubbs, Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, Libby King, Ian Lassiter, Zhailon Levingston, Jake Margolin, James Monaco, Kristen Sieh & Nick Vaughan (Reconstruction (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)), Andrea Thome with Anne Hamburger, José Zayas & Sinuhé Padilla Isunza (Undocumented), Annie Tippe with Molly Beach Murphy & Jeanna Phillips (Untitled Credit Show), Andy Truschinski (The Green Boat), James Anthony Tyler (Pranayama), Chinaza Ache with Chris Dunlop, Caitlin Zoz, Diana Oh & nicHi douglas (The Night We Trust), Itoro Udofia (The Soil Below), Liba Vaynberg with Leslie Gauthier & Emily Tabachuk (Queen's Quest), Emily Chadwick Weiss (Spray), Whitney White with Lester St. Louis, Zdenko Martin & Mary Knapp (Three Sisters), Ellen Winter with Chris Littler, Kelly Tieger & A. Sarr (Monster Hit), Gary Winter (Hackberry Road), Laura Winters with Madison Ferris & Ashley Brooke Monroe (Biting Hands), Jenna Worsham with Bryna Turner (The Art of Losing)