The Convergence residency is our longest running program with an alumni roster that spans the country and includes creatives from all artistic backgrounds.
🫶You can support this amazing group of artists by making a tax deductible donation today that will be matched dollar for dollar up to $2,000!
🪄Contribute today via our Zeffy page to ensure these wildly creative folks have the tools they need to learn, share, teach, explore, fail, try again, and work it all out.
DONATE TODAY! Link in bio
📸 @charles_borowicz , 2017 Convergence artists after our Open Lab Performance
📣We are thrilled to announce our 2026 Convergence Residency cohort. This group of creatives from all regions of the US and are corners of our home in Indianapolis will converge on Indianapolis June 16-27. Follow along in the coming weeks to learn more about all of these remarkable artists.
2026 Convergence Artists
✨BEAU BROWN: Puppeteer
✨ARIKA CASEY: Actor, Writer, Dancer
✨FERNANDO CASANOVA: Visual Artist
✨AUDREY EDWARDS: Actor Costume Design Major at DePaul University
✨MORIGAN EILEEN: Independent artist, Director, & Deviser
✨ROB FUNKHOUSER: Composer, Performer, Instrument Builder, Installation Artist
✨JENNIFER GOODLANDER: Director Puppeteer, Scholar, Educator
✨ZAHRA JAFARPOUR: Painter, Performance and Installation artist, Mixed Media
✨SADIE JENSEN: Acting Major at DePaul Univeristy
✨ALEX LYDON: Actor,Musician, Collaborative Creator
✨KATIE MCDERMITT BLANDFORD: Musician, teaching artist, & arts entrepreneur
✨ERIC SALAZAR: Musician
✨DENA TOLER: Writer, director, actor, dancer, poet
✨BILL WILLKINSON: Actor, Clown, Educator, Writer, Director
This year we are thrilled to host this program in partnership with @theatreschooldepaul and look forward to working with a few of their incredible students during the residency.
#residency #Indianapolis #Letsgo2026 #interdisciplinary #2026Convergence
Coming soon... our 2026 Convergence residency cohort. We're so excited to introduce you to incredible group of creatives who will be joining us in Indianapolis this June!
Cohort announcement coming soon!
#residency #indianapolis #creatives #loveindy #interdisciplinary #NearWest
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Past participants pictured L to R: @jannameiring , @theclarinetguy , @paulinaleonoraguerrero_ , @denasiview , @akmurtadha and Fabian Cereijido
📸 L to R Photos #1,2,4 @nomadicsole7 Sole, #3 @charles_borowicz , and #5 Indy Convergence
🤹 Flow Fest is coming to INDIANAPOLIS!
⭐ Join the Circus without Running Away! ✨
Flow Fest INDY at Belmont Beach on May 31 - 30+ workshops in FLOW ARTS, DANCE, JUGGLING AND AERIAL ARTS!
🎟️ ALL ACCESS PASSES $55 now, $75 onsite, but all FLOW FESTS are Free Entry with free beginner workshops and activities for all ages, starting 10am with Embodied Dance.
5 Workshops happening SIMULTANEOUSLY from 11am-6:15pm, plus our Instructor Showcase Performance and JAM!
Aerial Workshops ALL DAY LONG thanks to our partners @suspendedanimationaerials ! Plus learn and jam with @indyflowmies & @indiana_lacers and MORE!
FLOW FEST INDY is presented with our friends @indyconvergence
Links in bio!!
#flowfest #flowfestindy #Indianapolis #flowarts #flowartscommunity
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: LOU HARRY
Lou was part of our 2022 cohort of artists and we love following his work- you should too! Catch his latest piece on March 29 at the Chatterbox Jazz Club in Indianapolis. Space is limited so grab your tickets today!
Lou shares:
"For anyone who ever tried to find themself in a song.
Or anyone who ever tried to write one.
Reserved seats are almost sold out. Grab one today.
The cast -- Hannah Boswell, Zachary Stonerock, Chris Saunders, Cara Jean Wahlters -- breaks my heart and makes me laugh loudly at every rehearsal."
Tickets: Order now by emailing [email protected] #creatives #Indianapolis #performance #alumni
MEET OUR BOARD!
This week we had our first quarterly meeting for 2026! This year Indy Convergence is taking bold new steps to reshape how our board works, communicates with our audiences, and ensure our values are fully reflected in our programs.
To tackle this work, we're excited to share we welcomed seven new members this year, along with our returning members. We'd love for you to meet them!
✨Matt Belanger, Board Chair- Tesstitura Network
✨Cari Galeano- LISC
✨Gary Opp- Community Volunteer
✨Janna Meiring- Body-Mind Centering® Association
✨Leila Ghaznavi- Carnegie Hall
✨Brodrick Jones- Independent creator and artist
✨Shane Rogers- Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre
✨Morigan Eileen- Community Homeworks
✨Jess Carr- Theatre Communications Group and Indy Convergence
✨Robert Negron- Indy Convergence
✨Caitlin Negron- Indy Convergence #Indianapolis #creatives #interdisciplinary #board #newstructure #Letsgo2026
Hey Near West family! Check this event across the street at @fonsecatheatreco !
Crafternoon Fun is all about slowing down and making something together. Drop in, use the provided materials, follow a guided project if you want, or bring your own thing you’ve been meaning to finish. No pressure. No perfection. Just community, creativity, and a good afternoon vibe.
🗓 February 28
⏰ 1–4 PM
📍 Fonseca Theatre Company
🎟 Free entry (RSVP ONLY) #Indianapolis #nearwest #crafts #community #free
Today is the day! Applications for our 2026 Convergence are due today. Take the time to reinvigorate your work, create new work, and develop life long relationships.
"This environment, and a culture of generous engagement, allowed my work to be challenged and complicated for the better. Having that time to play with artists so committed to exploration without ego deepened the work considerably and unlocked parts of it I didn't realize were there." 2022 artist
Lin in bio to application
#residency #collaborate #midwest #interdisciplinary #Indianapolis #creatives
📸 @nomadicsole7@tictreitler , @morigan_eileen , and @devomogul at the 2025 Convergence
📅 Deadline approaching!
📣 Applications for the Convergence are due this Sunday, February 15. Don't miss the opportunity to elevate your work, spark new ideas, and connect with a community of creatives from across the country.
🔗 Link in bio for application #Indianapolis #residency #creatives #interdisciplinary #collaborate #midwest
📸 Dennis Ryan Kelly Jr.
⏰ Applications for our 2025 Convergence residency are due one week from today on Sunday February 15 @ midnight EST.
⚡️ This unique residency is designed for creatives from all disciplines looking for a place to collaborate, learn, create, and teach in a no-fail, supportive environment.
📣 "It is genuinely hard to overstate the personal, artistic, and community value of this program. As an artist, it is profoundly rare to have a funded space for my work in community. Our work is inseparable from the way we make it, and the way you make work at Indy Convergence is the right way: warmly, daringly, and with strong encouragement." 2022 participant
Apply today: Link in bio
📸 Photo by Charles Borowicz of Paulina Guerrero at the 2022 Convergence
#creatives #interdisciplinary #residency #Indianapolis #collaborate
ICYMI
Let our 2025 alumni share what the Convergence is all about. Applications are open now through February 15! Email [email protected] with quesitons.
Link in bio for more info!
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT, BEN MONIZ:
Ben, a 2022 residency participant, shares, "To mark the launch of Artemis II, which is sending humans to deep space and lunar orbit for the first time since 1972, we’re reading my 2023 play MOON SHOW.
An after school special about colonialism.
Bill Nye meets What the Constitution Means to Me.
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Developed to mark the 50th Anniversaries of the Apollo Moon Landings between 2019 and 2022 with residencies at Barn Arts and Indy Convergence and a production at The Tank.
#alumni #NYC #performance #creatives #interdisciplinary
Tickets: /ytv8mptd
