GetSmART! Learning Series: Get an Artist Residency

Join artist and arts professor Justin Tyler Bryant as he walks creatives through the art of finding and getting a residency in any arts genre. Bryant, who is a facilitator with Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Arkansas Arts Council, will lead creatives through goal setting, positioning their careers for residencies and boosting their own chances for getting their dream opportunities.

Participants in this workshop will learn what residencies will fit their needs, red flags to notice when researching residencies, ways to improve applications and more.

Seating is limited, so registration is required. Refreshments will be provided.

Justin Tyler Bryant is a visual artist, educator and creative innovator. He was a 2019 Interchange Artist Fellow, was featured in Delta Voices by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and is a facilitator with Mid-America Arts Alliance. He received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2012 and his MFA in Studio Art from Louisiana State University in 2018 and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (17′). Bryant currently teaches at Philander Smith University in Little Rock and was previously a full-time instructor at the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College. In Bryant’s work, he has used found objects, painting, drawing, and video to suggest a fugitive notion of Blackness. His recent work investigates the past and present imagery of Africa-Americans to reflect a multi-contextual narrative of poetry, personal narrative and history.

Arts And Humanities

The Division of Arts & Humanities works to produce critical and reflective thinkers, inquirers, communicators, writers, promoters, performing artists, community leaders, and ethical professionals.

The Department of Language and Letters seeks to develop English Majors and Minors who are critical and reflective thinkers and communicators with the skills and knowledge to enter a myriad of career fields.

The Department of Philosophy and Religion continues the rich heritage of the United Methodist Church, which is to produce critical reflective graduates, inquiring communicators, active truth seekers in the rich intellectual tradition of ethical values and ideas, founded in philosophical and religious inquiry.

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts produces critical and reflective graduates who implement social justice principles as ways of researching, reviewing, and investigating, various mediums of visual and performing arts through the examination process of creation, performance, and production for arts-based advocacy.

• Get an Artist Residency
• For: Artists, creatives
• When: 6-8 p.m. Nov. 7
• Where: Philander Smith University, Titus 107
• Cost: Free

This workshop is sponsored by the Arkansas Arts Council and in collaboration with Philander Smith University, which provided the venue space. Some refreshments will be provided. For more information, please email [email protected].

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Philander Smith University, 900 West Daisy L Gatson Bates Drive, Little Rock, United States