Residency | CAW Santa Barbara - The Community Arts Workshop

The arts have a unique ability to bridge barriers of politics, class, and culture, to reorient perspectives, open dialogue, and connect us with our shared humanity. In this belief, the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative (SBAC) is launching an artist-in-residence program, based at the Community Arts Workshop (CAW), for art work that builds community, fosters genuine conversation, reckons with social disconnection, and/or feeds local democracy and relationships between disparate people and groups. All artistic genres and disciplines will be considered. Projects will be awarded grants of between $5,000 and $15,000, receive one month or more of workshop space at the Community Arts Workshop, and the dedicated time of SBAC Staff to facilitate community collaborations. The SBAC will fund 1-3 residency projects to take place in 2025-26.