TMT Institute Fellowship

The TMT Institute is a cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their existing practice without any goal or expected result. Each Fellow’s journey is individual. Fellows create their own course as they reinvent, question, and challenge their artistic practice. TMT supports fellows with space, material resources and a $2,000 stipend.

The Institute gathers for three short intensive sessions to help each Fellow advance this process. In between intensive meetings, they meet monthly for breakfast and go on occasional excursions to keep their conversation growing. After the second intensive, each Fellow is encouraged to define and commit to an exploration that they can pursue outside of group gatherings. Target Margin supports these experiments with resources: space, collaborators, materials, etc. Fellows share their progress and evolution through the duration of the Institute. At the end of the season, TMT hosts an “Open Studio” to invite their community of artists and neighbors to share in what they have been exploring. This is not a performance; it can be a conversation, notes, a demonstration, or simply the Fellow’s presence to discuss their work with anyone interested.

Requirements

The Institute is open to artists from any artistic discipline within or outside of theater, and is also open to production, technical, and administrative workers in the arts. Fellows must have an established, existing practice in the arts which they are committed to changing.

Please do not apply to the Institute with a project. This is not a project development workshop. There is no public deliverable or timeline to meet. 

Appropriate candidates have already created a body of work in their field. The Institute is for artists with an established practice to set that aside and launch in new directions: directors may become installation artists, performers might work with design, producers can pursue ceramics. Applying artists should aspire to abandon received assumptions about theater, so individuals can create new ways of working from the ground up.

Fellows must be available in person for the following dates in Brooklyn, New York:

Intensive Sessions at Target Margin Theater

• November 5, 6, 7, 8: all day with some evening hours
• January 8, 9, 10: all day with some evening hours
• March 19, 20, 21: all day with some evening hours

Fellows meet for breakfast at Junior’s in Brooklyn to share thoughts, questions, and experience on the following days:

• October 20
• November 30
• January 4
• February 1
• March 8
• April 5
• May 3

From time to time, the Insititute organizes excursions to performances, artistic, or other cultural events to feed Fellows’ thinking. As the year proceeds, Fellows schedule their own explorations or experiments which Target Margin will support. Please note that while Fellows meet to share ideas, each artist follows their own path of experimentation.

Application Instructions

To submit an application, please fill out this google form by Wednesday, July 22, 11:59pm EST.