Founded in 2001 as a project of the Gaea Foundation, Sea Change Residencies provides time, space and funds to outstanding artists and activists making critical headway in bringing forward alternative paths to social change.

Sea Change Residencies offer four to eight week residencies, with weekly stipend, to nominees deeply involved in a variety of movements, from radical feminism to hip hop theatre, from anti-globalization to justice for American Indians.

The Sea Change Residencies’ values are simple: Support artists and activists whose stunning work is re-creating definitions of “center” and “margins”, whose commitment stems from a determination to shift structures of power that are as common as air, and lethal to the core.