Resident Project Teams

We plan to have small resident project groups who can work on specific aspects of our program. These groups will likely be around 3 or 4 community members, with a member of the leadership team serving as a project guide or point person. We hope these will provide community members the opportunity to explore accessibility within a specific niche that aligns with their creative practice and/or personal interests. Groups that we have planned so far are listed below, though we expect these project teams to change or expand depending on the interests of the community.

  • Captioning + Transcription

  • Social Media + Promo

  • Collaborative Project Planning

  • Virtual Exhibition Planning

  • Community Archives

Captioning + Transcription

Are you interesting in developing captioning and transcription skills? Our captioning + transcription team will assist the community by creating captions and/or transcriptions for community event recording and community archive time-based media files. They will also have the opportunity to offer technical and creative advice about captioning and transcription to their fellow residents, when needed.

Social Media + Promo

Our Social Media + Promo team will develop their creative skills related to digital presentation of artwork, by creating accessible content for our Instagram page, and accessible digital promotional materials for our community exhibitions and projects. These members will also serve as advisors to our Featured Residents, when they have their week-long SDA Instagram takeovers. (see the schedule of Featured Resident Instagram Takeovers in our Month-to-Month outline on the Program Info page.)

Collaborative Project Planning

Would you like to serve as a point person for our community collaborative projects, such as our Mail Art exchange or Resident Interview project? The Collaborative Project Planning team will develop and organize small-scale, on-going community projects that provide residents the opportunity to collaborate with each other. These project can be experimental, informal, and/or non time sensitive so residents have a low pressure chance to practice creating accessible art.

Virtual Exhibition Planning

Our goal is to create a virtual exhibition (or creative project) at the end of each resident cycle (to launch roughly each spring) so residents to public share the work they have created during their time with SDA. Our inaugural virtual exhibition was Liminal Beings, a choose-your-own-adventure style digital art project that launched in April 2021. The Virtual Exhibition Planning team will design, curate, and organize that year’s community project; the project will use accessibility features as a creative foundation to showcase the residents’ work over the course of the residency cycle. Planning will generally start in mid January, with goal to launch the project in late April.

Community Archives

Our Community Archives team will focus on creating unique digital (and possible print) documentation of our community’s projects, events, and activities, for presentation on SDA’s History + Community Archives webpage. While we will keep a full archive of our community’s projects, discussions, and recorded events accessible for our residents, our Community Archives team will develop a curated and creatively presented version of this content for the public, so we can share our work with folks outside our community.