Meet the 2026 Residents at the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Museum of Modern Art. Check out their work and learn what they’re focusing on during their time as Residents.
Resident at the V&A
Furniture and Placemaking
London, UK
Shanti Bell is a multidisciplinary artist and maker creating experiential sculptures that explore the relationship between the body, furniture, and shared space. At the V&A, she is developing interactive works inspired by the museum’s collections to encourage participation, play, and connection among young audiences, reimagining how objects can foster belonging and reflection.
Resident at the V&A
Mixed Media
London, UK
Emily Stapleton-Jefferis works across drawing and ceramics, exploring care, repair, and material transformation. At the V&A, she is collaborating with families to investigate mending as both a practical and poetic act, using discarded objects and storytelling to connect people, materials, and the natural world.
Resident at the V&A
AI and Digital
London, UK
Maria Than is a multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and educator working across augmented reality, illustration, and creative AI. At the V&A, she is working with students to explore AI as a tool for storytelling and self-expression, developing accessible and ethical approaches to digital creativity.
Resident at MoMA
Participatory Art & Design
New York, NY
Lizania Cruz is a participatory artist and designer whose work explores migration, identity, and belonging through research and community engagement. At MoMA, she is developing a site-specific project that brings together storytelling, mapping, and collaboration to examine the connections between environment, public health, and collective memory.
Photo: On White Wall © The Museum of Modern Art.
Creative Residents
The Creative Residents program gives artists early in their career access to a museum’s resources, including staff expertise, mentorship, and a platform to display their work. During a 12-to-18-month period, Creative Residents hone their skills, expand their networks, and strengthen their practice.
Throughout their Residency, Creative Residents partner with their local community to produce socially engaged artwork. For greater detail on opportunities each museum offers Residents to support its creative programming, visit its site below.
Creative programming
Adobe x Museums aims to engage 10 million students globally online and in person with creative programming and resources that will enable them to bring their creativity to the world. To learn more about these museums’ creative programming for the public, visit their sites below.
Adobe x Museums helps diversify the world’s most renowned arts institutions and increase access to the arts. Our current museum collaborators include the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo, the Museum of Art & Photography in Bengaluru, and the National Museums of Art throughout Japan. Click the logos to learn more about these museums’ Creative Residents and creative programming.
Illustrations by Masha Foya
Masha is a Ukrainian artist and recipient of an Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund grant. She uses her unique style to explore new ways of conveying emotion through art by breaking from literal representation. Masha studied fine arts at Kyiv Polytechnic University.
