A unique point of access for community-driven expression, healing, & togetherness!
2025-2026 Resident Artists
“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
“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 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
Open Eligibility
We welcome artists from any walk of life and style of art practice who reside in the greater New York City area at the time of application.
Selection Criteria
- Welcoming/Community Spirit: We look for examples of how the artist’s work is embedded in community, and whether proposed activities are rooted in addressing a community need.
- Experience/Network: This opportunity is designed to help accelerate experienced artists/groups that we have not yet partnered with. We select applicants with evidence of past success communicating their vision and a wide network for collaboration.
- Eligibility: Artists must reside in NYC metropolitan area at the time of application.
- Work Samples: We look for evidence of quality in an artist/group’s previously organized events.
- Programming Alignment: We aim to differentiate between seasons, keeping our presentations fresh. If a considered applicant is repetitive of what we’ve recently selected, we would invite you to apply again the following season.
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 are now closed. Applications for Season 2027-2028 will be reviewed from April 15, 2027 to June 15, 2028. Apply Now!
Application
To apply using our online form, be prepared to submit the following:
- Brief Artist Bio: Tell us about you, your past works, interests, and philosophy.
- Project Proposal: What you would hope to accomplish while an Artist in Residence. Includes a draft breakdown of how creative time would be used: List potential partners and collaborators who you envision being included.
- 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)?
- Work Samples (Files and/or Links)
Questions? Email mmanavit@goddard.org with Question for GRCAP Residency Application_Your Name as the subject line.