Saltwater Road Artist Residency was established in July of 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama. We are an artist-run arts training and public humanities organization that intentionally creates investigative space for historically marginalized artists to carry out rigorous artistic exploration and practice-based research at the intersection of arts and justice in the underrepresented region of the American South.
The goal of SaltWater Road is to support the advancement of knowledge emerging from artistic practice and the development of contemporary community-centered programming that values embodied ways of knowing toward innovation in social, political, and aesthetic sensibilities. Our vision is to be an award-winning performing arts and public humanities institution that intentionally creates investigative space for rigorous artistic exploration and practice-based research at the intersection of arts and justice in the American South. The mission of SaltWater Road is:
1. To train and develop the next generation of BIPOC Women and underrepresented artists and communities in performing arts based community development.
2. To support the advancement of knowledge emerging from artistic and practice-based research for cultural stewardship.
3. To preserve and archive historical and contemporary public-facing performance-based art work developed in Alabama and the deep American South that pushes the current cultural ways of knowing.
4. Foster community building by presenting site-specific, ethnographic, and participatory performance-based programming.
The week-long residency centers ethnographic research through site-specific improvisational sound, movement, and performance research, oral history interviews, and engaged performance experimentation. The week operates under a set score with a schedule of movement that includes a visits to historic sites including Africatown, historic downtown Montgomery, field visits and oral history interviews, site-specific performance devising, and creative experimentation, and response. It culminates in a closing ceremony that archives each artist's ethnographic research through their creative practice, that has been open to public participation. This year, we are expanding our lens to understand the connection between Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana through art and culture.
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