RESIDE: Teaching Artist Residency
You're already an artist. RESIDE helps you become a teaching artist, someone who can integrate creative practice and teaching practice into one unified expression. Through a year of cohort learning, mentorship, and hands-on experience, you'll develop the skills to share your craft with others while deepening your own artistic voice.
Your Year at a Glance
Phase 1 - Foundations
January – June | 6 Sessions
Building Your Teaching Practice
Develop the core skills of facilitation, lesson design, and feedback while clarifying your identity as a teaching artist.
Phase 2 - Summer Recess
July – August | Field Experience
Teaching in the Wild
Take what you've learned into real teaching situations. Lead workshops, gather experience, and discover what works.
Phase 3 - Integration
September – December | 6 Sessions
Unifying Artist & Educator
Synthesize your creative and teaching practices into something uniquely yours, culminating in a public showcase.
Meet the 2026 Cohort
Chris Simpson
Music Business & Artist Development
Chris Simpson is the founder of Catch & Play Songs, a Michigan music company focused on artist development, music marketing and community building. He holds a Bachelor of Music in music business from Wayne State University and has worked with Live Nation, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Warner Music Group. He has taught music business workshops at the University of Michigan, Wayne State and Ferris State, as well as through Motown Museum's Hitsville Next, and he sits on the board of the Michigan Music Alliance. In RESIDE, Chris is turning Catch & Play into a place where musicians learn the business side of their craft alongside their lessons.
Visit websiteSarah Jane Mark
Fiber Arts & Sustainable Fashion
Sarah is a Detroit fiber artist, clothing designer and educator with more than 25 years in fashion design, patternmaking and manufacturing, including a decade as a Design Director in Los Angeles. She founded Slow Stitch Detroit, a creative incubator in Piety Hill building a more sustainable and equitable fashion future through making, education and community. As a returning fellow, she is working at the curriculum level. Her 10-week Fashion Makers Lab began in two Detroit schools this fall.
Visit websiteManny Brooks
Photography
Manny Brooks is a Detroit photographer. In RESIDE, he is building a six-week photography course along with a one-day workshop version of it, so the same material can meet people wherever they are starting from.
Indigo
Acting & Theater
Indigo is an actor and acting teacher who built a 14-week audition course grounded in Michael Shurtleff's Audition, helping actors approach stage, screen and interviews with confidence. In RESIDE, she has split that curriculum into several courses, starting with an improv workshop for kids and adults. She also teaches at Slow Stitch.
Sessions meet every two weeks on Saturdays
Etude presents the RESIDE Culminating Showcase.
The Integration marks the end of our fellows’ first year, the moment where creative practice and teaching practice come together as one. Produced by Etude, the showcase invites you to experience each fellow as an educator. Every fellow hosts a table with a hands-on activity shares what they teach and why, and offers a sign-up for an upcoming workshop or course. Youth organizations, local nonprofits and education spaces from across the NAS network join us to share their own work, turning the day into a gathering of Detroit’s learning communities. Come ready to make something, learn something, and find your next class.
What You'll Receive
The 2026 Cohort Is in Session
Our first RESIDE fellows are building courses and workshops that bring their creative practice into teaching. Join us for their public capstone on Saturday, December 5.