Your Donation to the 2026 Annual Fund enables our provision of generous studios, production support, educational programs and critical dialogue among the artists and writers we host, local audiences, creative professionals and students.

Every donor’s contribution empowers our ongoing provision of generous studios and career-shifting support for residents, complimented by public, educational programs. In 2025, our donors vitally supported 84% of our annual operating budget. This vibrancy connects Corsicana and North Texas with a diverse field of art, literature and practitioners from around the world.

We have granted residencies to 172 artists and writers from across the United States and 17 countries, who come to produce career-shifting work influenced by both grand, historic studios and small-town Texas. In this immersive environment, our residents generate new sculpture, painting, film, installation, textile, performance, poetry, fiction and non, translation, and music composition, to list several practices – work that exhibits, publishes, screens and performs far beyond here, in centers like New York, Caracas, Berlin, Seoul, Reykjavík, and Dallas. Of equal importance is our investment in the cultural health of rural America, and to express through residents’ work that these places contribute consequentially to today’s creative movements.

The power of this cultural arena, bringing international artists and writers to this small-town and Texas, is realized only with your donation.

Donations also welcomed by check made to “Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency” and mailed to:

201 North Commerce Street, Corsicana, TX 75110

*Open Studios, reading of residency work by Shaan Sachdev, Dec 2025.*

RESIDENTS & PARTNERS in SHARED MISSION

Video generously underwritten by the Corsicana Visitors’ Bureau, in recognition of this residency’s commitment to Downtown Corsicana and partnerships with arts organizations across Texas, to elevate the next art and literature by an international community of artists and writers. Composed and edited by Documentarian and former resident Trey Burns.

*Resident Michelle Weinberg with students in her 100W studio.*

ILLUMINATED HISTORY OF 100 WEST - CORSICANA

Founders and director Kyle Hobratschk, Travis LaMothe, Adrienne Lichliter-Hines, David Searcy, Nancy Rebal, and Corsicana Residency nonprofit board members Joe B. Brooks and Sally Warren. Resident cameos in order by Rachel Mica Weiss, Olivia DiVecchia, Tom Holmes, Francisco Moreno, Alysia Nicole Harris, Kemar Wynter, Erik DeLuca, Kerri Arsenault, Linus Lohmann, Céline Leroy. Video funded by the Corsicana Visitors' Bureau, composed and edited by Documentarian and former resident Trey Burns.

CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY advances the production and presentation of new work and ideas by an international community of artists and writers by providing an arena of generous support and historic space.