Black Carolina Artist Residency Reception

Join the community celebration of the Gantt Center's 2025 Black Carolina Artist Residency (BCAR) cohort. To honor completion of the residency, the five-artist cohort will share reflections and highlights from their experience in BCAR, the intentionality behind their community projects, and next steps in their careers.

This reception is a great opportunity for the community to both connect with BCAR artists and learn more about the Black Carolina Collective (BCC), an intentionally curated community of Black artists from the Carolinas, whose members receive exclusive development opportunities, such as the BCAR. Black artists of varying disciplines and career levels are encouraged to join this reception to learn how to be a BCC member and how to apply to the 2026 BCAR.

The reception includes complimentary light bites and an open beer and wine bar.

2025 Black Carolina Artists-In-Residence

• Marcus Kiser
• Milagros Ugueto
• Nadia Meadows
• Tamara Williams
• William Jenkins

The Gantt Center's Black Carolina Artist Residency (BCAR) is one half of the Black Carolina initiative. As a result of the Wallace Foundation's Arts Initiative support, BCAR is a 6-month intensive artist residency designed to strengthen and sustain the well-being of our organization and community through the vision, development, and contributions of artists as community leaders.

Each year, BCAR selects a cohort of 5 diversely talented Black artists from the Carolinas that are cultivated with an equity and social justice lens and to implement in-community projects informed by their work.

Click/tap here to learn more about the Black Carolina initiative.