ARTIST SUPPORT
ARCOS offers support and mentorship to independent dance artists in Austin throughout the process of supporting their practices and projects, providing logistical and creative guidance. Current programming includes the ARCOS Presents production mentorship.
ARCOS is committed to relational, rather than transactional, practices of sharing resources, knowledge, and care in artmaking. ARCOS Presents awardees receive financial support, including an artist stipend, production budget, studio rehearsal space, technical inventory access, and performance venue. Additionally, mentorship provides awardees creative thought-partnering, production and technical support, and community outreach guidance.
The ARCOS Presents 2026 open call has closed. Information about this year’s selected artists will be posted here soon. Thanks to all who applied!
This year’s external application reviewers are alums of previous ARCOS production mentorships who are no longer based in Austin:
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![Michael, a Black male bodied artist with an Afro, large beard, in a shirt and sports coat smiles at the camera from behind large glasses.]()
![Sanchita Sharma: Routing / Al Hamauei: My Body, Your Choice (2025)]()
![Adrian José Flores: Mestizo / Anna Bauer: delicates / The Clubhouse: The Tale of the Swamp Witch / Nandini Majumdar: Empty Beat (2025)]()
![Kelly Goetz: Menstruator / Ciceley Fullylove: Rhythm & Grooves (2024)]()
![Angelica Monteiro: Narratives of the Migrant Body (2023)]()
![Michael J. Love: Dope Fit! (2019)]()
![anxious 20yr olds: This Isn't New (2017)]()
The ARCOS Presents 2026 open call has closed. Information about this year’s selected artists will be posted here soon. Thanks to all who applied!
This year’s external application reviewers are alums of previous ARCOS production mentorships who are no longer based in Austin:
Lizzy Tan is a dance artist and movement director based in London. Her creative practice and solo performances centre on the philosophy of image and representations of the femme performing body. Her solo and collaborative works have been performed in the US, UK, and Germany at The Place’s Resolution Festival, Assembly Festival at the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s VAULT Festival, Camden People’s Theatre’s ‘Calm Down, Dear’ Festival, Cohen New Works Festival, and Dance Source Houston’s ‘Mind the Gap.’ (IG @liztan_)
Michael J. Love is an interdisciplinary tap dance artist who critically engages Black cultural pasts to “rhythm dream” of futurity. His work has been supported by NCCAkron (OH), FringeArts (Philadelphia), and Fusebox. In New York, he’s performed at Carnegie Hall with quartet Sō Percussion, presented at Amant with rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown Jr., and shown at the New Museum and the Museum of Modern Art with artist Aryel René Jackson. Love was a 2021-23 Princeton University Arts Fellow. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Dance at Ursinus College. (IG @dancermlove)
Past ARCOS Presents awarded artists include:
- Sanchita Sharma for Routing and Al Hamauei for My Body, Your Choice (2025)
- Adrian José Flores for
MESTIZO, Anna Bauer with Celeste Camfield for delicates, The Clubhouse (Gabbi Melton and Sarah Smith) for The Tale of the Swamp Witch, Saraswati Nandini Majumdar and Venese Alcantar for Empty Beat (2025) - Kelly Goetz for Menstruator and Ciceley Fullylove for Rhythm & Grooves (2024) at CRASHBOX
- Angelica Monteiro for Narratives of the Migrant Body (2023) at Motion Media Arts Center
- Interdisciplinary tap artist Michael J. Love for The Auralvisual Mixtape Collection, Part II: Dope Fit! (2019) at Carver Museum and Cultural Center
- University of Texas at Austin alums anxious 20yr olds (Gianina Casale, D’Launa Lawson, Oluwaseun Samuel Olayiwola, Lizzette Chapa, Hunter Sturgis) for This Isn’t New (2017) at Museum of Human Achievement
This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
Fiscal Sponsorship
Previously, ARCOS served as a nonprofit fiscal sponsor primarily to Austin-based artists by providing financial management and administrative support for municipal arts grants. Since the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division launched revised funding programs that no longer require fiscal sponsorship for application, this is no longer one of ARCOS’ currently offered forms of arts service.
Past fiscally sponsored artists and projects include Magdalena Jarkowiec’s In Here at Fusebox Festival (2018) and Us Kids Are Alone In The House at Salvage Vanguard Theater (2016), Millie Heckler’s SoulFunktion Yes Body summer dance parties (2018), Esther Bramlett’s Articulate Austin Series (2019), and Michael J. Love’s virtual-hybrid Beatbox Series (2020-21).