Main Street Events
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Session II: July 6-October 17
Session I: March 2-June 20
The Hapeville Main Street Artist Residency is now in its second year as a collaborative effort between Hapeville Main Street and local artists to activate two converted shipping containers in the heart of downtown. The program provides selected artists with 15 weeks of free studio space, along with promotion and increased visibility for their work. In return, Downtown Hapeville is energized through creative programming, public engagement, and a stronger representation of our vibrant arts community.
Check out the 2026 Artists in Residence!
Abiola Batiste
Session I, Arts Alley
Abiola Batiste will transform Arts Alley into a dynamic visual storytelling experience that celebrates Hapeville’s rich history. Through animation, projection, illustration, and painting, he will bring moments from the city’s past to life—blending traditional and digital mediums to create an immersive, evolving installation.
Rachel Myrick
Session I, Jess Lucas Park
Rachel Myrick’s installation will highlight sustainability and creativity through the use of recycled materials. Utilizing plastic bags, glass bottles, and other reclaimed items, she will construct a large-scale artwork in the park. Community workshops will invite participants to create “yarn” from plastic bags and craft glass beads from recycled bottles—turning everyday waste into meaningful art.
Douglas & Dewey McGeoch
Session II, Arts Alley
Douglas & Dewey McGeoch will reimagine Arts Alley as a whimsical cardboard cabaret—complete with a ticket booth, stage, and audience. This immersive installation will invite the community to take part in hands-on activities, including creating cardboard self-portraits to “sit” in the audience. Playful, theatrical, and highly interactive, the project will celebrate imagination and shared creative expression in our community.
Symone Lakes
Session II, Jess Lucas Park
Symone Lakes will transform Jess Lucas Park into a vibrant paper doll boutique. This interactive installation will feature handcrafted paper fashions, newly designed prints, and workshops where participants can learn to design and construct paper clothing for dolls. Blending fashion, printmaking, and nostalgia, the project invites visitors of all ages to explore creativity through paper-based design.
2025 Artists in Residence... the first year of the program!
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Reinilda Blair
Reinilda transformed the Arts Alley Art Container into a vibrant Dominican living room, creating an immersive space that celebrated her heritage and invited visitors to experience her culture. During her residency, she expanded her artistic practice by creating her first-ever mask sculpture, a hand painted dominos table, painted a mural, and produced multiple new works that were showcased in her final exhibition, highlighting both her artistic growth and cultural storytelling.
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Honey Pierre
Honey Pierre, a textile artist, transformed the Art Container into a whimsical garden shop-inspired space filled with handcrafted fabric plants and hand painted green walls. Her immersive installation showcased her distinctive textile practice, inviting visitors into a vibrant environment where soft sculptures and fiber art celebrated nature through a unique, handcrafted lens.
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Julio Ceballos
Julio Ceballos transformed the Art Container into an immersive sculptural installation that explored the relationship between brushstrokes, form, and light. Using carved foam, painted surfaces, and dynamic lighting, he created a one-of-a-kind artistic environment where visitors could experience painting beyond the canvas. His residency pushed the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional art, inviting audiences to step inside his expressive, larger-than-life brushstrokes.
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Nick Twiner
Nick Twiner's residency explored the lasting impact of interstate construction on the Hapeville community through his body of work, Shared Traffic. Drawing from stories shared by Hapeville residents about their experiences with the highway, Nick created paintings of roads divided by the interstate, focusing on what endures despite displacement. His work highlighted playgrounds at dead ends, thriving forests, and the resilient connections between neighborhoods that highways attempted—but ultimately failed—to sever.