The Sheen Center Application.docx

The Sheen Center Application

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COVER LETTER ARTIST STATEMENT (no more than 2 pages) STATEMENT OF INTENT (2-4 pages) The statement of intent should include how you envision using your 2-4 months at The Sheen Center, and how this will further your artistic goals. Please include discussion of the Sheen Center mission, how your faith informs your work, and what benefit 2-4 months in New York City would have on your work as an artist right now. Please also include the length of residency for which you are applying, as well a date range within which you would be available to carry out the residency. CV/RESUME Please include your professional artistic CV/resume. BRIEF WORK SAMPLE Please include 1-3 brief samples of artistic work (e.g., photos of artwork, sample chapter, video trailer). PASTORAL REFERENCE Please include a letter from your pastor, chaplain, spiritual director, or similar figure. The letter should testify to your participation in the life of the Church. It does NOT need to include an assessment of your artistic work.

The Sheen Center Named after the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, best known for his popular radio and TV ministry in the 1950s and 60s, The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture is a project of the Archdiocese of New York, presenting more than 75 events in theatre, film, music, and thought per season. The state-of-the-art complex has a 274-seat proscenium theater equipped with five-camera high-definition livestream capability and a multi-track recording studio with thirty-two onstage inputs; an 80-seat black box theater; four rehearsal studios; and an art gallery. This facility is the newest arts center in Manhattan in 35 years and a significant addition to the growing artistic community in NoHo/East Village.

Mission Statement The Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Center for Thought & Culture is a forum to highlight the true, the good, and the beautiful as they have

been expressed throughout the ages. Cognizant of our creation in the image and likeness of God, the Sheen Center aspires to present the heights and depths of human expression in thought and culture, featuring humankind as fully alive. At the Sheen Center, we proclaim that life is worth living, especially when we seek to deepen, explore and challenge ourselves, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, intellectually, artistically, and spiritually.