Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Residency Opportunity: Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City


The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE offers 2- to 8-week residencies year-round for writers, visual artists, and music composers. Housing, studio space, $100/week stipend are provided.

Approximately 60 residencies are awarded per year. Two deadlines each year,  March 1 for the following July through December; or September 1 for the following January through June.
 $35 application fee.

See website for complete information, guidelines and the online application portal:


The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the  Arts
801 3rd Corso
Nebraska City, Nebraska 68410
402-874-9600

The next deadline for applications is September 1, 2014. 

Current Residents
The following artists, writers, and composers are scheduled to join us in the second half of 2014:

Morgan Craig (Visual Artist, Philadelphia, PA), 
Filippo Santoro (Composer, Madison, WI), Kateri Kosek (Writer, Hopewell Jct., NY), Beth Livensperger(Visual Artist, Ridgewood, NY), Dena Afrasiabi (Writer, Austin, TX), Katya Grokhovsky (Visual Artist, Brooklyn, NY), Stephen Lewis (Composer, La Jolla, CA), Stephanie Carpenter (Writer, Hancock, MI), Heidi Naylor (Writer, Boise, ID), Marshall Elliott (Visual Artist, Oakland, CA), Travis Alford (Composer, West Newton, MA), Ariana Nash (Writer, Wilmington, NC), Rose Nestler (Visual Artist, Brooklyn, NY), Judith Torrea (Writer, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico), Elysha Chang (Writer, Brooklyn, NY), Ashley Ryba (Visual Artist, Lincoln, NE), Daniel Fishback (Interdisciplinary Artist, Brooklyn, NY), Sophie Barbasch (Visual Artist, New York, NY), Lily Hamrick (Writer, Berkeley, CA), Liz Heller (Visual Artist, Madison, WI), Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Writer, Allentown, PA),David Samuel Stern (Visual, Brooklyn, NY), Diane Christianson (Visual Artist, Chicago, IL), Geoff Watkinson (Writer, Norfolk, VA), Juliet Jacobson (Visual Artist, Brooklyn, NY), David Meischen (Writer, Austin, TX), Thomas Kotcheff(Composer, Beverly Hills, CA), Eunice Choi (Visual Artist, South Korea), Mi-Hee Nahm (Visual Artist, Liberty Hill, TX), Claire Stanford (Writer, Minneapolis, MN), Jessamine Chan (Writer, Brooklyn, NY), Adam Zahller (Composer, Lincoln, NE),Jennifer Bockelman (Visual Artist, Seward, NE)

Past Residents
Since 2001, the residency has hosted more than 500 creative individuals, a varied combination of visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Each has found privacy in which to create along with ample opportunities to interact with fellow artists in a friendly community located in the rolling bluff country of southeastern Nebraska.