Artists Residency

Artist Residency

The Artist Residency Program is designed to offer time and space for craft artists to focus on their creative work and interact with the public. The program supports emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in all craft media, including but not limited to clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood and mixed media. Visitors have the unique opportunity to visit the artists’ studios and watch the artists at work. Interacting with the resident artists is a great way to learn about a range of craft processes and techniques. In turn, the artists receive a unique opportunity to gain exposure, make connections with the Houston community, and help educate the public about craft.

Current Artists

Photo by Eugene I-Peng

Dominique Muñoz

Studio: Sara + Bill Morgan Studio

Medium: Craft + Photography

Residency: June 1, 2026–

August 31, 2026

Dominique Muñoz is a Guatemalan-American visual artist whose practice spans photography, printmaking, performance, and installation. Rooted in personal and familial history, Muñoz explores the entanglements of assimilation, queerness, and cultural survival. He examines how photography functions as both an archive and an agent of power, challenging its colonial and heteronormative histories, subverting portraiture into a site of resilience. Through a maximalist approach that embraces the excess of color, pattern, and texture, Muñoz constructs visual languages that honor both origin and transformation.

Muñoz grew up in Fairfax, VA, and recently earned his MFA in studio art from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025 and his BFA in photography and film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. Muñoz was awarded the 2025 Denis Roussel Fellowship at the Center for Fine Art Photography and has attended residencies at Storm King Art Center, ACRE, and Ox-Bow School of Art as a LeRoy Neiman Fellow. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, including Candela Books & Gallery (Richmond, VA), the Greenville Museum of Art (Greenville, NC), The National Building Museum (Washington, DC), Silver Eye Center for Photography (Pittsburgh, PA), 1415 Gallery (Albuquerque, NM), and Lump Gallery (Raleigh, NC).

To learn more about Dominique Muñoz, visit www.dominiquemunoz.com.

Dominique’s residency is generously sponsored in part by Jereann Chaney.

Photo by Camille DeLaune

Arden Carlson

Studio: Anne Lamkin Kinder Studio

Medium: Wood

Residency: June 1, 2026–

February 27, 2027

Arden Carlson is a Kentucky-born sculptor and woodworker whose practice draws from the vernacular of craft, furniture, and surrealist object-making. Working primarily in wood through carving and other hand-tool processes, Arden creates symbolist forms that explore labor, spirituality, and desire through the use of implied function and world-building language.

Carlson received a BFA from Murray State University and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. They have participated in residencies and programs at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts, Wassaic Artist Residency, and the Museum for Art in Wood, with a forthcoming residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Their work has been exhibited nationally in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Arkansas, and Philadelphia. During their residency at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Carlson plans to expand the narrative of their work through the development of a carved wall-based series.

To learn more about Arden Carlson, visit ardencarlson.com.

Arden’s residency is generously sponsored in part by Nana Booker.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

Katie Mongoven

Studio: Catherine Asher Morgan

Medium: Fiber

Residency: December 1, 2025–

August 31, 2026

Katie Mongoven/秋莲 is a Chinese American fiber artist from Washington, DC, based in Detroit, Michigan. Using thread, hair, beads, and found ceramics, she examines the themes of identity, ornamentalism, and bodily autonomy as they interact within the Asian American diaspora, viewed through the lens of an orphan and adoptee from China’s one-child-policy era.

Mongoven received a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, along with the Surface Design Association’s Outstanding Student Award. She was a Roman J. Witt Visiting Artist at the University of Michigan, a Windgate University Fellow at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, and the Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. Other residencies she attended include the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Michigan, with a forthcoming residency at Stove Works. Solo and group exhibitions include the University of Michigan, Playground Detroit, and Riffe Gallery and ROY G BIV Gallery in Ohio.

To learn more about Katie Mongoven, visit katiemongoven.com.

Katie’s residency is generously sponsored anonymously in honor of Sara Morgan.

Upcoming

Alumni

Kendall Ross

Fiber

Malene Barnett

Clay

Candace Hicks

Fiber

Roslyn Dupre

Fiber

Grace Sachi Troxell

Clay

Lorena Morales

Fiber

Macon Reed

Fiber

Atisha Fordyce

Fiber

Nela Garzon

Fiber

Dongyi Wu

Metal

Stephanie Bursese

Craft + Photography

Gbenga Komolafe

Fiber

Preetika Rajgariah

Fiber

Adam Whitney

Metal

Jamie Sterling Pitt

Wood

Rebecca Padilla-Pipkin

Fiber

Perata Bradley

Mixed Media

Gabo Martinez

Clay

Hai-Wen Lin

Fiber

Robert Hodge

Fiber

Nela Garzon

Fiber

Ann Johnson

FIBER

Sarah Knight

Clay

Qiqing Lin

FIBER

Terumi Saito

Clay/Fiber

Felicia Francine Dean

mixed media

Guadalupe Hernandez

FIBER

Ian Gerson

FIBER

Juan Carlos Escobedo

FIBER

Margot Becker

FIBER

THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS

The artist residency program is generously supported by funding from the Windgate Foundation; Susan Vaughan Foundation, Inc.; Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation; and the Gordon A. Cain Foundation. Grant support contributes to monthly stipends for the residents, as well as the operational and administrative needs of the program. The program is also supported by the following generous individuals: Anne Lamkin Kinder, Scott and Judy Nyquist, Isabelle Asakura and Seth Stolbun, Laura Babka, Jereann Chaney, Phyllis Childress, Rob Greenstein, Edward R. Allen III and Chinhui Juhn, Margaret M. McKay, Mariela Poleo, Jerome Schultz, and Sue and Bob Schwartz.

Apply to the Artist Residency Program

The open call runs annually from December 1 through February 1. If you missed this year, we encourage you to apply next year. The Artist Residency Program is designed to offer time and space for craft artists to focus on their creative work and interact with the public. The program supports emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in all craft media, including but not limited to clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood and mixed media.

Apply to the Artist Residency Program