Sarah Marie Lutkenhaus is the 2025 Alba Sonic Arts Artist-in-Residence.

The Alba Sonic Arts Residency is a three-month residency at ESS in which all of the organization’s resources and platforms are made available to a graduating MFA student from Art + Technology / Sound Practices (AT/SP) at the School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC). It is the only post-graduate sonic arts residency of its kind in the US. The goal of the residency is to create an immediate outlet for the skills and ideas the student has developed at SAIC, helping to launch them into the next phase of their artistic career.

The call for proposals is distributed internally to eligible graduating students by the AT / SP Department every March and selected by a committee organized by ESS.