The Medium: A Place to Create

THE MEDIUM ARTIST RESIDENCIES

The Medium Artist Residency provides practicing 2D and 3D visual artists a creative studio space for six weeks; allowing them to take creative risks, expand artistically, and build relationships with the community.

Amount: $3,000
Available Awards: 6 total, 2 artists per quarter
Disciplines: 2D and 3D Visual Art
Space at the Medium: Classrooms 1 & 2 (Roughly 20’’x32’’ per Artist; 320 sq. ft.)
Timeframe: 6 week residency with 3 weeks for move in/out

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Eligibility

Applicants must be at least 18 years old
Practicing 2D & 3D visual artists are eligible to apply
Artists must reside in Benton or Washington Counties of Northwest Arkansas
Resident projects must take into account studio dimensions, including a ceiling height of 8’
Woodworking, welding, foundry work, and glassblowing are ineligible to apply due to facility limitations
Artists in Residence will be required to host an open studio event during a pre-assigned quarterly Visual Art Night
Applicants must commit to a minimum of 10 hours a week (60 hours total) on site during their 6-week residency
Previous Artist in Residence recipients may not reapply for this fund

Are you a visual artist interested in applying to The Medium Artist in Residency program? Click the link below to watch the recorded info session!

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Featured The Medium Artist Residencies Artist

Markeith

Woods

Markeith Woods used his Artist in Residency opportunity to create The American Dream, a large scale painting depicting his idea of progress from his perspective as a Black male and what he had to experience to get there.

Markeith Woods: “Represented by Art Ventures”

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The Medium Artist Residencies

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Kevin Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American musical artist, producer, and audio engineer from Salt Lake City, UT. He is a graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences in Gilbert, AZ. For the past 2.5 years, Kevin has spent time working on his craft in an intimate studio space located in Bentonville’s famed CACHE Studios, collaborating with the new wave of Hip-Hop and Rap artists in our flourishing and eclectic art and music scene. Having recently served as a barista at a local cafe, known for its excellence in hospitality, he is looking to help facilitate these qualities, at The Medium, for everyone in the creative community.

BACK OF HOUSE & TECHNICAL COORDINATOR

KEVIN NGUYEN

Email: kevin@cachecreate.org

A lover of nature, collector of plants, and avid fan of travel and adventure; Cynthia is a fine art photographer, curator, educator, and multi-disciplinary artist.

With a heart-felt passion for empowering and encouraging authentic self-expression, she is mindful of how personal experiences influence and inspire the vision for future growth and community support to evolve as a result of authentic embodiment. She is mindful of the ever-changing moments of life and thrives to elevate the essence of every place and every person she encounters.

She has been involved in the arts sector for over six years and a practitioner of her own medium for over a decade now, with eight years of professional experience capturing, curating, connecting artists to opportunities, and facilitating events.

EVENT & FRONT OF HOUSE COORDINATOR

CYNTHIA TRAN

Email: cynthia@cachecreate.org

A breath of fresh air
one moody evergreen dusk
the moon’s reflection

Perrodin is a community-focused, visual artist and storyteller based in Springdale, Arkansas; a chronic grassroots organizer inspired by art, community, and creative placemaking.

Perrodin is the founder of The Little Craft Show and Team Springdale; co-founder of The Creative Social Retreat; a 4-year local team member with “Live in America”, a collaborative research project presented by The Momentary, and a 4-year Artist Fellow with “Looking for America” that resulted in “The Ozark Story Project” a 200-page book that chronicles stories, photos, poetry, and recipes from across the Ozarks.

A graduate from the University of Arkansas School of Art, Perrodin received her bachelor of fine arts in printmaking in 2010. She is a certified Arkansas Master Naturalist who enjoys foraging for wild mushrooms, swimming in creeks, kayaking, and collecting tumbled creek glass, animal bones, and river stones that often find their way back to her art studio as inspiration for her paintings that are collected across the United States.

ARTIST AND COMMUNITY MANAGER

AMBER PERRODIN

Email: amber@cachecreate.org

Friend to Everyone
She Whispers with mushrooms and
is guided by heart

John Wayne is a Filipino-American who has spent each half of his life on opposite sides of the world. But no matter where he has been, there has always been an innate desire to make sounds and capture them. He began his musical journey as an avid listener, which then progressed into learning to become a keyboardist, a choir member, then finally a self-taught guitarist. That path proceeded to taking on roles as an audio engineer, videographer, and live sound technician. Later on in life he was introduced to his second passion, construction. With over five years now of experience in various aspects, he is looking to transform the space in Downtown Springdale into a safe and evolving one providing to the needs of local creatives.

GENERAL MANAGER

JOHN WAYNE PHARR

Email: jwp@cachecreate.org

Freak in the spreadsheets
Filipino Musician
King of space and time

Since 2015, Thalia has been a vital liaison between performing arts and the community, following more than a decade of in-home education fueling the minds and passions of her five children. Combining her scientific background — a Cum Laude University of Arkansas graduate with a degree in Environmental, Soil, and Water Science — with the artistic, athletic, and academic world in which she was immersed, Thalia began her career as Production Manager for the Northwest Arkansas Conservatory of Classical Ballet, the region’s premiere dance school.

In 2019, Thalia continued to cultivate a relevant landscape for dance in Northwest Arkansas, working with acclaimed directors, artists, and choreographers as Project Manager on a successful 6 month pilot program called Dance Anywhere/Everywhere. Later, as Executive Director of NWA Ballet Theatre, she managed 22 professional dancers and administratively supported art that began receiving national attention. Thalia orchestrated day-to-day operations of NWABT, and quickly became the hub of information flowing in and out of the organization. She not only solidified the continuation of the company, but found her niche in the curation of relationships among artists, venue operators, arts organizations, and community leaders.

With an analytical mind to keep artistic systems functioning, Thalia now employs her talents on the Medium team as their Operations Manager, cultivating connections between nonprofits, municipalities, cultural institutions, and funders to build a more equitable and inclusive region for artists and creatives.

OPERATIONS MANAGER

THALIA MADEWELL

Email: thalia@cachecreate.org

Capricorn hustle
An Okie from Muskogee
She’s been here before