Community Arts

A unique point of access for community-driven expression, healing, & togetherness!

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2025-2026 Resident Artists

Four individuals pose confidently in elaborate, stylistic outfits and bold makeup, each holding a cultural prop including decorative fans, a circular hand fan, and a red envelope. They stand against a vibrant orange-to-red gradient background, exuding strength and artistic expression.

“My artist practice attempts to equip communities with tools to navigate cultural nuance and complexity—actively preventing appropriation and building cross-racial solidarity, working toward a future that is liberated, culturally vibrant, and nurtured by ancestral wisdom and collective care.” 

Yvonne Huatin Chow (周化炜)

Drawing on Hip-Hop Dance, martial arts, and Asian folk traditions, House of Chow’s signature dance theater pieces explore identity and spirituality with emotional honesty and historical depth. House of Chow’s performances are conceived as portals—ways to access ancestral wisdom, confront internalized erasure, and honor the layered, often fragmented, experiences of Asian Americans. House of Chow (HoC) was born in 2015 from Yvonne Huatin Chow’s response to the loss of her Nai Nai (paternal grandmother)—a journey of grief that opened the door to ancestral honoring and cultural reckoning.

This season at Goddard, House of Chow will inspire our arts community and dance students with custom-tailored workshops and public performances that advance their ongoing mission to educate, empower, and unify Asians in the US through Hip-Hop Dance.

Artistic Director: Yvonne Huatin Chow (周化炜) 
Performers: Ella Kennedy, Fiona Tsang, Hovie Nguyen, IJ Chan (陳加恩), Langston Kahn, Nikki Renojo, Shanna Lim, Yuchen Jin

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“We are bound together by a fierce belief in the power of music to tell stories, uplift communities, and affect change.”

Franco Giacomarra

The Luna Negra Collective is a passionate band of New York-based Latine multi-hyphenate artists who focus on creating original music works, as well as reinterpreting existing works through a vibrant and heartfelt Latine’ lens. Spearheaded by Franco Giacomarra and Dilia Jelen, the collective is a multigenerational group that comes with over 30 years of combined experience in music and theatre work. Among their ranks they count world class musicians, recording artists, actors, expert storytellers, and seasoned community organizers dedicated to bringing art to underserved communities across the globe. 

This season with GRCAP, Luna Negra Collective will use creative time to arrange their diverse sonic palette made up of percussionists, rhythm, brass, and woodwind players. An original interactive Salsa concert (with a narrative theme of hope woven throughout its compositions), including Salsa dance instruction for beginners, is designed to bring together Goddard Riverside’s community.  Listen to the band’s debut single. 

Artist Residency

The GRCAP Artist Residency is designed to support community-based event organizers and ensembles showing exceptional artistic and social merit exemplifying our mission-based criteria. Successful applications are able to make direct links between proposed engagement opportunities and one or more of Goddard Riverside’s six focus areas, listed on the homepage.

Each residency represents a unique collaboration and exchange of community space for community programming content.

Selected individuals and groups will receive up to 40 hours of free creative time across our multiple performance, office, and rehearsal spaces, with the understanding that this time is used to develop content that will inspire, heal, immerse, and encourage our community members. The Community Arts Staff will co-produce the resulting events and works under the banner of Goddard Riverside and provide additional services and support.

INSPIRE – boundary-push, play, innovate, explore, excel 

HEAL – restore, regenerate, support, center, protect 

IMMERSE – expose, contextualize, teach, share, enlighten 

ENCOURAGE – ground, build, belong, strengthen, empower

Learn about our Previous Resident Artists

Open Eligibility

We welcome artists from any walk of life and style of art practice. We ask you to clarify your intentions and how your vision can benefit the community.  

We’re looking to expand our networks. While all are welcome to apply, our selection process will especially consider those who have not yet had a chance to partner with the Community Arts Program in the past. We love and appreciate all our past partners and want more folks to have the same great experience with us. 

Deadline

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications for Season 2026-2027 will be reviewed from April 15, 2026 – June 15, 2026. Apply Now!

Online Application Form
Application

To apply using our online form, be prepared to submit the following:

  1. Brief Artist Bio: Tell us about you, your past works, interests, and philosophy. 
  2. Project Proposal: What you would hope to accomplish while an Artist in Residence. Includes a draft breakdown of how 40 hours would be used (the sky’s the limit when brainstorming!) List potential partners and collaborators who you envision being included.
  3. Written statement addressing the following questions: Which of Goddard’s focus areas and/or program values (see above) relate the most to your proposal and why? How will the residency will benefit you as an artist(s) and community leader(s)?
  4. Work Samples (Files and/or Links)

Questions? Email mmanavit@goddard.org with Question for GRCAP Residency Application_Your Name as the subject line. 

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