Calling all creatives! You’re invited to join us on Saturday, August 9 for our Artist-in-Residence Open Studios, showcasing work-in-progress by our current resident Robyn Mineko Williams.

To Leave You is a new interdisciplinary performance acknowledging the impressions we leave in and for one another as we live and pass on. Created by RMW&A director and artist, Robyn Mineko Williams, alongside a dynamic team of acclaimed collaborators including dance artists, Jessica Tong, Jason Hortin, Jacqueline Burnett, and David Schultz, musician Nick Kinsella, visual artist Julia Miller, and lighting designer David Goodman-Edberg, To Leave You seamlessly blends movement, music, film, and projection into a tapestry of scenes investigating the idea of trace — a mapping of the essences, memories, and messages we leave behind when we exit this world.

This is a unique opportunity to explore the creative process of making new work, collaborating across disciplines, and preparing for presentation. There will be time for conversation over drinks and snacks.

Tickets are free, and registration is encouraged. Reserve your spot online or by calling Guest Services at (479) 657-2335 today.

About the Artist

Robyn Mineko Williams is a director and artist from Chicago, IL. She is the founder and director of Robyn Mineko Williams and Artists (RMW&A), which houses and shares a body of interdisciplinary performance created in collaboration with an evolving roster of dynamic artists and designers. Prioritizing public, malleable forms of presentation, RMW&A creates by intertwining performance, design, people and place. Robyn’s work has been presented at the Kennedy Center, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Thalia Hall, Jacob’s Pillow, the Joyce Theater, MCA Chicago and more. Commissions include Pacific Northwest Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Malpaso Dance Company among others. She is a recipient of a Princess Grace Foundation-USA Choreographic Fellowship and the Walder Foundation Platform Award.

While in residence, Robyn will be in production staging her new work To Leave You in preparation for an upcoming presentation.

Learn more about our Artist-in-Residence Program.