Demand To Be Heard: Artist Application
Thank you for applying to be part of our Demand To Be Heard residency program. We are so appreciative of your time and care in drafting these application responses. We hope that you find value in the act of writing these responses, and earnestly want to hear feedback from you about your experience with this application. We assure you that each response will be read in detail, and though we won't be able to accept each of you into the program, we are deeply grateful for your interest in the residency and hope to support you and your work in any way we can.
Eligibility
Please ensure you've read the call for proposals on our website before drafting this application. Also, please ensure you are eligible for this program, meaning all of the following statements are true: 1) I identify as a performing artist. 2) I identify as a survivor of domestic violence, sexual assault, intimate-partner violence, dating violence, relationship abuse, or something else of a similar nature. 3) I will be living in or around Los Angeles for the span of the residency (April - October 2026) and will have access to reliable transportation for the duration of the residency. I commit to attending every workshop scheduled (available on our website). 4) I actively engage in self-care and have a support system which can support me during the span of this residency, as I will be engaging in difficult, possibly triggering, subject matters.
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Basic Information
Your full name
First Name
Last Name
Your email
example@example.com
Your phone number
Please enter a valid phone number.
Format: (000) 000-0000.
City in which you reside/make work:
Your age
Your race/ethnicity
What kind of performance artist are you? Check all that apply.
Dance
Theater / Musical Theater
Music - Instrument / Production
Music - Voice
Spoken Word Poetry
Interdisciplinary Performance Art
Comedy / Improv
Live creation of fine art
Opera
Circus arts
Other
Please list the number of years you've worked in each field of performance art checked above. Feel free to make specifications if the options above are too broad to accurately describe your work.
Can you commit to the workshop schedule listed on our website? If not, how many absences do you anticipate? We require resident artists to participate in at least 75% of the program schedule.
How did you hear about this residency?
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Narrative Questions
We recommend drafting responses to these questions in a separate document and copy and pasting your responses into the text boxes below.
Brief professional/artistic biography (250 words):
Artist statement (400 words):Tell us about your artistic philosophy and motivations. What inspires you to create? What have you made in the past that you feel passionate about? What would you like to make in the future?
Survivor story (400 words): What does being a “survivor” mean to you? You don’t have to put anything here you don’t want to include, but this is a space for you to share what your relationship with being a survivor means to you (if anything). This is also a space for you to tell us whether you have experience with telling your survivor story. If you don’t, why do you think now is the time for you to tell that story through art?
Support (200 words): Whether you’ve told your story in a million ways, or never spoke of it at all, participating in this residency will be difficult and require you to lean on your support system. What support system do you have in place? How well-equipped are you to dive into this difficult topic?
Vision (400 words): What do you anticipate you will create in this residency? You may continue working on something you’ve started, or create something entirely new. Why is this residency the right place for you to create this work?
What do you hope you will get out of this residency? (200 words)
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Work Samples
You may submit up to three work samples (we recommend submitting at least 2). Links to online works are accepted (please ensure the page is publicly available, or include the password in the work sample description). You can also upload files (video, audio, or PDF files). Work samples can be of any kind of work and can be from any time period in your career. Choose samples you think are the most representative of the kind of work you'd like to make in this residency, or are the most representative of who you are as an artist. While there is no time limit, please keep the work samples brief, and include time stamps for video or audio samples, and page number references for written samples.
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