Meet the 2025 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
Inclusive Design
London, UK
Jessica Starns is a multidisciplinary artist interested in inclusive design and disability history and rights. At V&A she is exploring how disability enriches our understanding of design, researching adaptive design and objects created by disabled people for disabled people. Jessica is collaborating with the Schools team to create a supportive design studio for children, young people, and their support networks.
Resident at the V&A
Mosaics and Ceramic Tilework
London, UK
Ciara Neufeldt is a ceramic artist and educator creating objects and installations that bring playfulness and joy into public spaces. At V&A she is collaborating with the Families team to explore themes of community, care, and collective making inspired by the ceramics and mosaics collections. She is also researching the quilts collection to understand how communal making can inform her own making process.
Resident at the V&A
Photography
London, UK
Michael Akuagwu is a multimedia artist blending photography and photo-manipulation with a surreal approach to explore themes of self, identity, culture, and society. At V&A he is working with the Young People’s team to share his creative process and inspire young people to use self-portraiture as a powerful tool for self-expression.
Resident at The MoMA
Multimedia
New York, NY
Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker. At MoMA, he is creating sonic healing rooms for people who have experienced structural violence. Through performance, installation, film, song, and language, these rooms shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action.
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.
