The annual Sweet Pass Spring Residency invites local, recent graduates to create works which respond to the park's setting. Artists who are selected have demonstrated a strong commitment to community building, site responsivity, and experimentation within their practices. Starting in 2023, the program was expanded to accommodate two artists and includes access to the adjacent new media space, SP2. Supported by a stipend and the park's facilities, each residency culminates with an open studio event which kicks off the new exhibition season at Sweet Pass.

Hannah Rotwein earned her BFA in Studio Art and BA in History and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. Rotwein was a 2018 participant in the Land Arts of the American West program, was an artist in residence at Cel del Nord in Oristà, Spain in June of 2022, and is a 2022-2023 cohort artist at the Cedars Union in Dallas. Recent exhibitions include Fooling Ourselves at the Boedeker Building and The MAC, After Sense at Arts Fort Worth, and New Texas Talent XXIX at Craighead Green Gallery. She is the founder and curator of Post Gallery, an independent platform that supports emerging artists through quarterly postcard exhibitions.

During the residency, Rotwein created panels of cast glue. In their shape and form, the panels recalled the ordinary stuff of parks and yards: wrought iron gates, chain link fences, drying laundry, and stray plastic bags. Hanging from branches and pressed against trees, the translucent panels both “disappeared into and highlighted the visual qualities the park.”

Diana Rojas was born in Mexico and currently studies, and teaches at the University of North Texas, where she is a graduate student in New Media Art. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose research explores “human attempts and desires to engage with the invisible and sublime” through installation, video, sound, and sculpture. Informed by her interests in philosophy, history, physics, and material science, she approaches the role of technology in art making as the catalyst for larger conversations of existence, consciousness, and metaphysics. She is the recipient of the 2022 Judson-Morrisey Excellence in New Media Award and the Arrowmont Windgate University Fellowship.

In SP2 Rojas presented an immersive light-based installation, utilizing laser-etched rods as a lens and was accompanied by a meditative soundscape composed by her collaborator, Patrick Reed.

Analise Minjarez researches the transformation, consumption, repurposing and healing qualities of material in her practice. She reconnects to her nature/magic through site, material and light. Minjarez received her B.F.A in Fibers from the University of North Texas in 2013 and recently an M.F. A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX in 2022. Minjarez has taught classes at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Latino Cultural Center, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Oil and Cotton, SAY Sí, and the Southwest School of Arts. Miniarez has exhibited at the Xolo Gallery in El Paso, 500X Gallery, Terrain Dallas, and the Nasher Sculpture Sculpture Center in Dallas as part of the 2020 Nasher Windows Series.

Francisco Josue Alvarado Araujo is an artist living in Fort Worth, Texas. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2020 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas in 2015. Francisco works with found and donated materials to create site specific interventions and installations. There is an urgency to his work; arranging, balancing, and playing with what he refers to as “an object's principals”, attempting to make sculptures and situations levitate. The lot Sweet Pass inhabits, which has spent part of its life as an illegal dump, provided an interesting context for Araujo’s consideration of use, dilapidation, and assemblage. During his residency Francisco placed interventions through the park, rigging bicycles from the trees with knot forms that refer to shibari.