Kimberly Fergus...: It's been radical.

Honestly, it's been amazing to be able to be so connected to the community.

I didn't realize exactly how many folks came out to enjoy local culture.

I think that's super important.

We've lost a lot of that, I think, over the pandemic, so it's nice that it's coming back.

My name is Kimberly Ferguson, and I'm a ceramic sculptor.

I'm also an artist-in-residence at the Bailey Contemporary Arts Studio.

Gregory Dirr: This residency program lasts for nine months, and you're obligated to stay the nine months, and then there's various other obligations like having the Artist of the Month.

You have to be here for Old Town Untapped.

You have to do onsite and offsite community engagement events.

But residencies are just a thing in the art world and in a lot of other worlds.

Scientists do residencies.

Photographers and videographers do residencies.

It's kind of a way for you to get a crash course and extend your practice.

My name's Gregory Dirr.

I'm a visual artist, and I do the traditional painting and sculpture, but I'll also do things like video, installation, music, calligraphy, textiles, pretty much anything that I feel is a good fit for me at the time I'll do.

Ty Tabing: We continue to do our monthly Untapped event, which is, by numbers, our biggest event.

We usually attract from three to 5,000 people the first Friday of every month.

My name is Ty Tabing, and I'm the director of Cultural Affairs for the city of Pompano Beach.

I'm very proud of really the Artist in Residence Program being revamped.

We've brought in new artists, and they are all dynamic artists who do fantastic artwork, and they're really great people, so they've been wonderful to be on-site and get to know them and really celebrate them and, hopefully, provide some professional development to them along the way.

Manzi Liu: This program is dreams come true, to me.

I just love to be with the other artists.

It's very different than when I was in art school.

We're all established artists already.

I also love the program.

They pick very different artists, and I love that.

I love to see what the other artists do, and I love the feedback they are giving.

My name is Manzi Liu.

I'm a multi-medium visual artist.

My work is inspired by the beauty of human culture, nature, and the historical object.

I'm also influenced by my Asian culture, also my inner dreams, and memories.

Darcy Roberts: I like to incorporate tile, stone, glass, found objects, especially rusty metal items, and break them apart and then recreate something whole again, reimagined.

So it's exciting work, and it's never the same twice.

I'm Darcy Roberts.

I'm a mixed-media mosaic artist.

I'm a resident artist for eight months, and this has been an incredible opportunity.

I get to work in this historic building.

The sunlight in this building is fantastic.

The people here treat us like rock stars, but really they just give us space.

And we bounce ideas off of each other, and that's truly the magic of this place because normally, we're home alone in our individual spaces, and it's very isolating.

So the fact that we can be here together, we connect, and we learn from each other.

Leonardo Montoy...: I love the human figure.

That was my first love.

I learned to paint, actually drawing cartoons and superheroes.

And I guess, eventually, my love for women it's what prevails about everything else.

For me, it's very important to highlight their personalities more than their beauty, which is obvious.

I love to paint these strong characters and make an echo to their lives and their careers.

My name is Leonardo Montoya.

So far, it's been amazing.

We are eight of us.

We are all very diverse.

We work with different medias, and we even have a dancer among us, so that's good because we can learn from each other.

We share our practices and our knowledge, so that's fantastic.

Shanna L. Woods: I am Shanna L. Woods, and I use dance as a mode of meditation and movement.

I believe that we should all rest, that we should all get somewhere and sit down, like our mothers and our aunts and grandmothers taught us to.

And I really believe in pushing the audience to reflect on their choices, their decisions, and how they decide to move through life.

This is part of the reasons why I have these questions, like what do you need in your sanctuary, and what brings you joy?

So my piece is called The Ritual.

It's the journey to thriving.

It's a space in my life that I'm still discovering.

I thoroughly enjoy the people that I'm co-creating with.

Everyone has their own voice, and we share ideas.

They've shared so many ideas with me of how I could use paint when I create, how I can use mirrors or mosaic work.

It inspires me to want to learn how to do it, and to me, that is a major goal.

When you influence someone else who may think that, oh, that's not my ministry or my lane, as other people would say, then you've done your job.

Ty Tabing: Our goal is that at the end of this residency, all of the artists are better artists at the conclusion than they were at the beginning of this program.