Artist in Residence
Oasis Arts collaborates with San Francisco Bay Area artists in the LGBTQIA+ community and provides venue space and resources to create and refine artistic visions for specific projects. In supporting diverse and dynamic voices, we showcase our stories and raise representation to bring equity to the arts.
Oasis Arts provides mentorship, structure, tools, venue space, resources and equipment to enable LGBTQ and BIPOC artist to create innovative and diverse art.
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Resident artist receive a stipend to use to support their work.
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In partnership with Oasis SF, artists are provided a venue space to workshop, rehearse and perform.
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Resident artist receive support by working with professionals that provide guidance, tools and resources.
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In partnership with Oasis SF, artists work with professionals of stage lighting, design and audio visual tech.
Ryan Patrick Welsh
Resident artist, Ryan Patrick Welsh (he/she/they), a.k.a. The 8th Best Legs in San Francisco, is a tall & bawdy, chanteuse, performer, and sex worker based in San Francisco. Ryan Patrick (RP) has appeared on numerous stages across SF with The San Francisco Neo-Futurists, Peaches Christ Productions, The Presidio Theatre, and Oasis, most notably with Baloney, and in her original cabaret 'Sex, Camp, & Rock 'N Roll'.
Before moving to SF, RP received his Bachelors of Music in Musical Theatre from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he also performed on many stages.
As a producer, RP helped to bring the SF Neo-Futurists' Annual Pride Show to the legendary queer bar, El Rio, and greatly expanded the video work of Baloney, beginning with adapting 'The Night Before XXXMas' sketch into a short film. They are proud to work as a producer for Baloney, year round, on top of performing in the show.
RP's recent performance in 'Cooking at 420' in the 2022 Spliff Film Festival helped to win 'Funniest in Show' award.
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Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth is a state of mind, personified. This personification has spent 20 years of its physical form cultivating talents of expression, through singing, dancing, and acting (and later audio composition, video editing, and directing). Beginning first with self training and later continuing on at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ, International Summer School of Physical Theatre, with Sergei Ostrenko in Styria Austria, and workshops with Kun-Yang Lin Dancers in Philadelphia, PA.
Heaven's greater mission is to use the language of Popular Music and Dance (and beyond) and Remix it, combining elements of Self Mastery and Discovery, and symbolism, to entertain and introduce new concepts to audiences, in a unique way, that may lead to a collective rise in vibration and general healing. All while feeling the equivalent raw energy of a Rock Concert.
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