The ACA Soundscape Field Station, a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore, welcomes Swedish sound artist, Jacek Smolicki as its 2023 artist-in-residence. This residency program invites musicians, composers, and ecologists to find innovative approaches that help preserve a healthy and balanced soundscape for current and future generations. Atlantic Center for the Arts has over 40 years of experience in producing artist-in-residency programs that attract distinguished artists from all over the world.

From February 11 – March 18, 2023, Jacek Smolicki will live and work at the Doris Leeper House at Canaveral National Seashore, a house that was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. Smolicki is a Fulbright Scholar currently pursuing an international post doctorate at Simon Fraser University and Harvard University, funded by the Swedish Research Council.

For his residency with ACA, he plans to involve the local community in his creative work while living at the Doris Leeper House at Canaveral National Seashore. He says, "As a sound artist and currently a postdoc researcher within soundscape studies, acoustic ecology, and environmental humanities, I have been drawn to places with complex histories and uncertain futures. I have been particularly interested in borderland territories, the so-called ecotones where several different ecosystems co-exist, collide, and interact."

Public Events (free with park admission)
February 18th at 1PM: Welcome reception & Artist Talk at the Leeper House (Canaveral National Seashore Apollo Beach)
March 11th at 11AM: Soundwalk at Spruce Creek Preserve MTB Trailhead at Martin Dairy Road (Google map point)
March 22nd at 3PM: Sound Art installation and Soundwalk for Listening Pasts – Listening Futures at ACA (main campus)
March 22nd at 7PM: World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference keynote panel discussion at Stetson University

This program is supported by Friends of Canaveral, the City of New Smyrna Beach, and Atlantic Center for the Arts.
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For media inquiries, please contact Eve Payor, ACA Director of Community Programs at 386-423-1753 or Laura Henning, Chief of Interpretation & Visitor Services, Canaveral National Seashore at 321-267-1110 ext. 25.