Artist Residencies and Grants

Claire Huschle, founder and director of arts project support firm Scaffold, discusses with Hamiltonian Artists fellows the elements necessary for success when applying for residency programs and project funding.

Scaffold founder and director Claire Huschle has over two decades of arts management experience. She served as Director of George Mason University’s Arts Management program, where she has been teaching since 2007. She was awarded a fellowship at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she worked with the Center’s senior leadership and co-produced a study on regional trends in audience engagement. She served as Executive Director of the Arlington Arts Center (now the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington). In that role, she significantly increased the operating budget, built operational reserves, negotiated a 25-year lease, and brought together a talented staff, raising the organization’s profile both regionally and nationally.