CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new theater and/or performance work. The residency aims to provide artists with time and space to concentrate on a specific project and/or element of a project. This is an ideal for works that have already been started, and/or have perhaps received some institutional support, but are still in need of additional concentrated focus, funding and space. 

Forms of work may include traditional theater, dance, performance and/or storytelling, or it may experiment with new technologies, movement, duration, site-specificity, hybridity, and more.

The residency period culminates with a WORK IN PROCESS [WIP]. [WIP] programs are designed in collaboration with the artist and Hi-ARTS.

To learn more about CRITICAL BREAKS and our alumni, please click here. 

Applications will close October 31, 2025 at 11:59PM EST.

SKY LAB is a residency for artists who center the community in the development of their work. While SKY LAB artists may work beyond the four walls of a traditional studio or theater space, or be presented more traditionally, Hi-ARTS supports work that centers community in the roots of its development, research, and consideration.

This may include relationship building, deep listening and discussion, experience design, community collaboration, storytelling, and other interdisciplinary methods and practices that take place alongside and in relation to an artist’s identified community. We welcome artists to define what “community engagement” means to them.

The residency period culminates with a WORK IN PROCESS [WIP]. [WIP] programs are designed in collaboration with artists and Hi-ARTS.

To learn more about SKY LAB and our alumni, please click here. 

Applications will close October 31, 2025 at 11:59PM EST.

Designed to nurture the ongoing artistic growth of our community, Creative Continuum provides financial subsidies, studio space, and in kind support to assist artists in advancing their creative projects.

At a time when few institutions offer continued resources to artists beyond an initial residency or program, Creative Continuum ensures that support continues after initial engagement with Hi-ARTS.

Applicants must be a Hi-ARTS Alumni and have completed a Hi-ARTS residency between 2015 and the present day. They must have an established or developing project timeline with a clear plan for project start and completion dates and must complete this application detailing project goals and how they align with Hi-ARTS’ mission.