José Santiago Pérez, June - July 2026
José Santiago Pérez is an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh. Their work was recently exhibited at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Chicago), the University Art Gallery at the University of Pittsburgh, and will be shown at Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami) later this year.
José Santiago Pérez is an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh. Their work was recently exhibited at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Chicago), the University Art Gallery at the University of Pittsburgh, and will be shown at Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami) later this year. His work has been supported by residencies, grants, and fellowships including the Regional Residency at Contemporary Craft (2025), the Illinois Arts Council Agency (2024, 2021), and the Lunder Institute for American Art (2022). José received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Visit José’s website here.
Roger Q. Mason, June - July 2026
Roger Q. Mason (they/them) is an award-winning playwright, performer and educator celebrated for visionary works like Lavender Men, which have earned prestigious accolades including the 2024 McKnight National Playwright Commission and the inaugural Dramatists Guild Foundation Catalyst Grant.
Photo Credit: Sara Martin
Roger Q. Mason (they/them) is an award-winning playwright, performer and educator celebrated for visionary works like Lavender Men, which have earned prestigious accolades including the 2024 McKnight National Playwright Commission and the inaugural Dramatists Guild Foundation Catalyst Grant.
A versatile thought leader and CalArts faculty member, Mason holds advanced degrees from Princeton, Middlebury, and Northwestern, and has been hailed by The Brooklyn Rail as one of the most significant theatrical voices of the decade.
View Roger’s work here.
This residency opportunity was made possible through the generous support of the McKnight Foundation and Artist Communities Alliance.
About the McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowships Program
Founded on the belief that Minnesota thrives when its artists and culture bearers thrive, the McKnight Foundation’s arts and culture program is one of the oldest and largest of its kind in the country. Support for individual working Minnesota artists and culture bearers has been a cornerstone of the program since it began in 1982. The McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowships Program provides annual, unrestricted cash awards to outstanding mid-career Minnesota artists in 15 different creative disciplines. Program partner organizations administer the fellowships and structure them to respond tothe unique challenges of different disciplines. Currently, the foundation contributes about $2.8 million per year to its statewide fellowships. For more information, visit mcknight.org/artistfellowships.
About ACA
Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) is the international service organization for artist residency programs and artist-centered organizations. For 35 years, ACA has centered artists and artist residencies, providing them with tools, knowledge-sharing, resources, and frameworks to create and sustain inclusive, accessible, just, and joyful environments. We work to unite people and inspire the field.
About the McKnight Foundation
The McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation, advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive. Established in 1953, the McKnight Foundation is deeply committed to advancing climate solutions in the Midwest; building an equitable and inclusive Minnesota; and supporting the arts and culture in Minnesota, neuroscience, and global food systems.
C. C. Ann Chen, June - July 2026
C. C. Ann Chen is an artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Her work stems from architecture and landscape, exploring perceptual translations and misinterpretations of place and time.
C. C. Ann Chen is an artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Her work stems from architecture and landscape, exploring perceptual translations and misinterpretations of place and time. Projects range from direct observation to site-specific work, engaging each landscape with an open, experiment-based approach. Recent work reflects journeys by sea, to remote places in the North Atlantic and Arctic. She uses drawing and collage to examine new ways of looking at and understanding landscapes.
Chen has exhibited in Chicago and beyond, including Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, slow gallery, Heaven Gallery, Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Research House for Asian Art, Emerge Art Fair in Washington, D.C., Zhou B. Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and The Franklin. Chen has been a recipient of the 3Arts Make a Wave Award, and the Midwest Voices and Visions Award. Her work has also been published in New American Paintings. Chen is also a member of artist collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago. She earned a BA in Architectural History from the University of Maryland, and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently Associate Professor, Adjunct, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Visit Ann’s Instagram here.
This residency opportunity was made possible through the generous support of 3Arts and Artist Communities Alliance.
About 3Arts
Founded in 1912, with a history centered on women artists, 3Arts is a nonprofit organization that supports artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts in the Chicago metropolitan area, including women artists, artists of color, and Deaf and disabled artists. By providing unrestricted awards, project funding, residencies, professional development, and promotion, 3Arts helps artists take risks, experiment, and build momentum in their careers over time.
Since 2013, 3Arts has partnered with Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) to offer residencies for past 3Arts artists to travel to restorative and stimulating artist communities outside of Chicago to focus on their craft, connect with peers, and contribute to creative environments of exchange and collaboration.
About ACA
Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) is the international service organization for artist residency programs and artist-centered organizations. For 35 years, ACA has centered artists and artist residencies, providing them with tools, knowledge-sharing, resources, and frameworks to create and sustain inclusive, accessible, just, and joyful environments. We work to unite people and inspire the field.
C. C. Ann Chen: Whereabouts
Gallery view of solo exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, May 24-July 5, 2025
Photograph courtesy of artist
Jean Shin, June - July 2026
Jean Shin is known for her sprawling and often public sculptures, transforming accumulations of discarded objects into powerful monuments that interrogate our complex relationship between material consumption, collective identity, and community engagement.
Artist Jean Shin working to create her exhibition "Perch" at Appleton Farms as part of The Trustees Art Commission (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Jean Shin is known for her sprawling and often public sculptures, transforming accumulations of discarded objects into powerful monuments that interrogate our complex relationship between material consumption, collective identity, and community engagement. Often working cooperatively within a community, Shin amasses vast collections of everyday objects—Mountain Dew bottles, mobile phones, 35mm slides—while researching their history of use, circulation, and environmental impact. Distinguished by this labor-intensive and participatory process, Shin’s creations become catalysts for communities to confront social and ecological challenges.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the U.S., Shin works in Brooklyn and Hudson Valley, New York. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected in over 150 major museums and cultural institutions, including solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where in 2020 she was the first Korean American woman artist featured in a solo exhibition. Shin has received numerous awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and the Frederic Church Award for her contributions to American art and culture. Her works have been highlighted in The New York Times and Sculpture Magazine, among others.
Visit Jean’s website here.
Jean Shin, Sea Change, 2023
Plastic water bottles, zip ties, painted armature
Installation in Diani, Kenya in collaboration with HERI and Stanford University