We encourage those in residency to engage with the broader Charleston community. To that end, we facilitate access to, and interactions with, local arts, religious, and educational institutions. Past residents have worked with various congregations, art museums, archival collections, cultural interest groups, historic properties, and schools. During their residencies, artists also participate in FSA’s monthly reading salon, among other activities.

Our residency has had a wide impact locally.  “A thriving creative community can only be built by a chorus of diverse voices and viewpoints,” explains Katie Hirsh, Director of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston. Angela Mack, Director of Charleston’s Gibbes Museum of Art, adds: “You have accomplished such an inspiring and thoughtful artist residency…. Thank you for introducing our community to new ways of understanding and engaging with art.”

For our national and international audiences who follow us online, our documentation of the residency provides a constantly expanding portfolio of the ways different types of artists can fruitfully engage with spirituality in their own work and through public engagement.