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Artists-in-Residence at Stony Brook

Stony Brook faculty are invited to submit proposals for the Visiting Artists Series at Stony Brook University. The program consists of two awards to bring practicing artists to campus each academic year with the goal of engaging students and faculty in the arts as well as the broader campus community. Applications that actively engage the community are especially welcome.

Residencies should:

    • Be at least 3-5 days long
    • Involve a single artist or a group of artists who will work with students and faculty
    • Include activities such as: workshops, master classes and other student-focused activities; and at least one event focused on the artist's work that is designed for university and community audiences

  Available Funding:

We offer two grants to support visiting artists each academic year.

    • Up to $15,000 for early-career artists
    • Up to $20,000 for established artists

Proposals must include:

  1. Rationale: Identify the artists or group and give a clear indication of the nature of their artistic work and their standing in national and international circles. Discuss how the proposed artist(s) will enhance the profile of the arts at Stony Brook.
  2. Schedule of Activities: How and when the artist(s) will interact with graduate and undergraduate students and faculty, and what type of public events are planned. Be as specific as possible about events and timing.
  3. Budget: How the funds will be spent, including for transportation and lodging, honoraria, materials, and any receptions/dinners or similar events. If the residency will cost more than the upper limit, identify the source(s) of other funding.
  4. Lead Faculty: While one faculty member will serve as the lead author of the proposal, other faculty who will participate should be indicated, including information about how each will contribute to a successful residency.
  5. Chair/Director Endorsement: The department/program chair must submit an endorsement of the project that addresses how the proposal enhances the mission of the department/program, and the feasibility of the proposed residency within existing departmental/programmatic constraints.

The chair or director of the department or program should collect and submit all required documentation.

Submit Your Proposal - January 26 - March 27, 2026

Successful Proposals:

  • The budget officer from the unit's dean's office must submit a funding request to the Office of the Provost Budget Team to access funds.
  • The department/program is responsible for all logistics and arrangements related to the artist’s visit.
  • Units who have had a successful proposal are ineligible to apply again for two years, unless there are no other proposals.





The selection committee is charged with assuring that grants are equally distributed amongst departments/programs who submit viable proposals.

2025-2026

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha  Emerging Artist Residency

Sponsor: the Lichtenstein Center

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is author of three books of poetry: Something About Living (UAkron, 2024), winner of the 2024 National Book Award and winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry, Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award and honorable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award, Water & Salt (Red Hen), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honorable mention for the 2018 Arab American Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Prize, and Letters from the Interior (Diode, 2019), finalist for the 2020 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.eaches classes in “British Cinema,” “The New Hollywood,” “Irish Modernism,” “Empire and Global English,” and “Energy Humanities.

Adele Todd and Dean Arlen Established Artists Residency

Sponsor: The Center for Changing Systems of Power (CCSP) and Dept. of Sociology

Dean Arlen and Adele Todd—both based in Trinidad and Tobago - invited students, faculty, and community members to participate in a series of interactive workshops that explored how collaborative art practices and social justice aesthetics can reshape communal space, specifically Stony Brook's Staller Steps. Participants engaged with the artists through drawing, modeling, and dialogue, culminating in a artists' presentation and publication showcasing the ideas and designs generated during the residency.

Learn more from SBU News coverage for The Room.

Gad Yola  Emerging Artist Residency

Sponsor: Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 

Gad Yola is a drag artist/migrant living in Madrid, who articulates her creation from a queer anti-racist perspective. Her debut was with the collective Dont Hit La Negra (2019-2020). She is part of La Casa Drag Latina, a collective of migrant drags that, since 2019, claim their place in the artistic scenes of the Spanish context. She has been an instructor of the Drag queen / Drag king workshop together with the Ayllu Collective in Matadero (2019); she was part of the public program Pensar con las entrañas, held at the Matadero Madrid Art Residency Center (2019). She has been a speaker at digital festivals coordinated from Lima, such as Cabritas resistiendo and Pussy pussy orgullo. In Madrid, she has also participated in the Usergender microfestival, GALAXXIA project (2020).

 If you have any questions, please contact Michael Rubenstein.

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