(ARTISTS) SOHO2O Gallery Chelsea Artist Residency Program: SOHO2O Gallery Chelsea is a non-profit artist run gallery that has been promoting the work of women artists since 1973 through gallery exhibitions and public programming. As part of their continued commitment to the arts they are introducing a
five month studio residency program for visual artists. The studio space is located at 547 West 27th Street, in the heart of the Chelsea art community of
New York City. The setting offers a community of art professionals and commercial as well as non-profit galleries and art spaces. The studio's proximity to the contemporary art center makes it a convenient place to see renowned exhibitions in the neighborhood, as well as arranging studio visits with gallerists, critics and curators. Applicants must be
U.S. citizens or have valid visa for staying in the country. For more information, go to:
http://www.soho20gallery.com/New/residency.html Deadline: April 30th, 2010.Thanks
fundsforwriters for the following two notices:
(WRITERS) Hosking Houses Trust Residency: HHTR is seeking to appoint one or more writers for the year. Deadline April 19, 2010. They offer between two months and one
year's residence in Church Cottage, Clifford Chambers with all the bills paid and a bursary of £750pcm, or £9,000 per annum. Applications are open to any woman over the age of forty, who writes in English, has the legal right to be in the UK and who has a contract for publication or performance of original work on any subject whatsoever. For more information, please go to: http://www.hoskinghouses.co.uk/
(WRITERS) The Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize: Each spring, Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW Festival, sponsors
emerging writers under forty years old--with no major book publication--to spend
two months in residence at their campus in Chicago's northern suburbs on the shore of Lake Michigan. There are no formal teaching duties attached to the residency. Time is to be spent completing a manuscript, participating in the annual Lake Forest Literary Festival, and offering a series of public presentations. The completed manuscript will be published (upon approval) by &NOW Books imprint, with distribution by Northwestern University Press.
The stipend is $10,000, with a housing suite and campus meals provided by the college.
Deadline April 1, 2010.
***By the way, I know this area (Lake Forest) —rather posh but very beautiful. The lake is very close as is Ragdale Foundation, a great artist colony. And the place is not that far from Chicago.