Emerging Artist Residency
Your bridge from graduation to a professional creative career
ISABEL TOERGE
Pepper Feldman
Pepper Feldman is a multidisciplinary visual artist specializing in ballpoint realism, graphite drawing, and acrylic painting. His work focuses on sculptural lighting, soft transitions, and quiet, atmospheric compositions that emphasize midtone depth and subtle detail.
Isabel Toerge
Isabel Toerge creates with a wide array of materials including inks, soft pastels, watercolor, and charcoal. Much of her work focuses on the physical impacts we have on one another, such as her wildlife conservation artwork. Keystones of her work include vibrant color, varied contrast, and a strong focus on unity, movement, and balance.
Cynthia Aguair
Cynthia Aguiar's practice brings together organic elements and human-made processes, blending digital and physical mediums to create new forms of expression. She incorporates technology to move fluidly between mediums such as sculpture, painting, and projection mapping, utilizing 3D printers, embedded LEDs, and more.
Medy Reckling
Medy Reckling creates artwork across diverse mediums to confront the normalized burdens which shape our modern life. Using a color palette mainly of red, black, and white, Medy explores how constant consumption shapes and reshapes us.
Space to make
Five hours of reserved workshop time each week, plus full access to our shared tool and equipment library.
A mentor and a community
Apply for mentorship from working artists, join curated meet-ups, and connect through our members-only creative community.
Professional opportunities
Sell your work in the Gift Shop and online store, show in the gallery, take part in First Friday Art Walk, enjoy a featured spot in our Artist Roster, and receive a professional photo session to help you promote your work.
MEDY RECKLINGWho should apply
This residency is for emerging Greeley-area artists who:
Graduated from Aims Community College or UNC in the last school year
Live within 20 miles of Greeley (Greeley-based applicants preferred)
Are early in their career, with little to no professional exhibition or sales history
How to apply
Your first step is to schedule a tour of the GCAC to better understand how the Center’s spaces may or may not align with your creative needs.
To set up your tour, email Executive Director Becca Vaclavik at becca@greeleycreativedistrict.org, and let us know you’re interested in the Residency Program!
With Gratitude
The 2026 Residency is generously sponsored by SouthState Bank.