About
Crisis Art Residency is a free, non-juried Art Residency that is open to all creatives. It was founded by artist Kate Hooray Osmond in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic as a way to initiate personal creative inquiry and encourage connection. During its initial cycle, over 200 international AIRs participated in the Residency through personal development, interviews, critique, and live performance. The Residency was initially planned to span the length of the pandemic.
Today, the Residency continues indefinitely and is individually self-led. There are no requirements of time, participation, or documentation. The most important work that is conducted is within.
The Residency is anonymous-optional.
Kate Hooray Osmond is an American painter and installation artist based in Charleston, SC, whose work circles around the curious experience of consciousness. Kate’s artwork has been featured in Introspective Magazine, Hyperallergic, Art and Cake LA, Shoutout Atlanta, ArtMag, and Charleston Magazine. She curated her first exhibition, Prototype for a Landscape, at the City Gallery (SC ‘21). She has been named the State Fellow for South Carolina (SouthArts Commission), and Lowcountry Artist of the Year (Griffith Reyburn Award), and the Piccolo Spoleto Poster Commissioned Artist. She exhibited her first solo museum show at the Franklin Burroughs/Simeon Chapin Art Museum.
Recently, her paintings have been included in the Biennial by the Center for Contemporary Art of South Carolina, the LaGrange Southeast Regional, and Hope (University North Carolina Pembroke), among others.
Her residencies include The Arctic Circle Residency (Norway ‘22) and CRISIS Art Residency (founder). She currently serves on the Studio Art Faculty at the College of Charleston. Kate Hooray earned her MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art and her BA from Saint Mary's College of Maryland.
