EMERGING ARTISTS: Watermill Center ResidenciesCall for Proposals for Fall and Spring Sessions. Application Deadline: May 31, 2009. Watermill is a "laboratory for performance" which supports the development of experimental and cross-disciplinary artistic practices. Watermill invites emerging artists to submit ambitious proposals for the creation of collaborative works which critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of performance practice. Watermill also welcomes research proposals from established scholars. Watermill is actively engaged in raising its international profile and extending its network of associates and encourages proposals from artists based outside the US. All proposals must be submitted via our online system at watermillcenter.slideroom.com. There are no exceptions.
About Watermill Center
The Watermill Center was founded in 1992 by its Artistic Director Robert Wilson as an international, multi-disciplinary center for studies in the arts and humanities. For the past sixteen years, the Watermill Center has been home to an International Summer Program led by Robert Wilson, focusing on new projects that he is developing in all areas of the arts. Watermill collaborates with institutions such as Park Avenue Armory, Kampnagel Hamburg, CUNY Martin E. Segal Theater Center, Taipei Cultural Center, Chez Bushwick and Radialsystem Berlin.
VISUAL ARTISTS: Ateljé Stundars Residency in Finland
Handelsesplanaden 23 A, 65100 Vaasa, Finland
Duration of residency is two to six months. Disciplines: Drawing & Painting, Media Art, and Sculpture. Artists from all countries may apply. Ateljé Stundars aims at providing foreign, mainly visual artists a studio and a guest apartment for two to six months. In the house is a sauna as well as laundry possibilities, basics for traditional art and pottery, dark room. There is a graphic workshop and in the area is also a printing museum offering possibilities to try some old printing techniques. Ateljé Stundars is equipped with a modern image editing computer. The artist apartment is situated only a few hundred meters away from the studio. The apartment is large and sunny enough for a part of it to also be used as a studio. Ateljé Stundars is situated in Solf, in the municipality of Korsholm - about 15 km south of Vasa in Ostrobothnia. Solf with its 1600 inhabitants is a genuine ostrobothnian village with a lot of wooden buildings in traditional peasant style. Ateljé Stundars is located in a living crafts and open-air museum area. It offers its guests beautiful nature, with open fields in a modern agricultural surrounding. Deadline: May 31st. E-mail: atelje.stundars@svof.fi Website: www.svof.fi/artstundars
VISUAL ARTISTS: Residency at Art Space Portsmouth, England
27 Brougham Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO5 4PA, United Kingdom
* Duration: 3 months (September - December) * Discipline: Ceramics, Drawing & Painting, Media Art, Photography, Printmaking, Stone Carving, Woodcraft * Targetgroup: International
Art Space Portsmouth is located within a converted church building. The ASP International Residency is aimed at emerging fine artists with some experience of professional practice who may have had limited exposure in the UK and whose work is engaged with contemporary debate within the international art world. The residency is non-prescriptive allowing the artist to develop work in response to their environment. Sculpture facilities, computers, facilities for Etching, Drypoint, Block Printing and Screen Printing. The studio is on the 2nd floor of the ASP building. It is 6 metres long and 2.8 metres wide and is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The studio is wheelchair accessible and there is a lift and a disabled toilet. There are 28 studios in total. ASP International pays for the artists' studio space, a research and development fee of £3000, travel expenses (one return journey from place of origin to Portsmouth), accommodation, an exhibition or event at Aspex (www.aspex.org.uk) or offsite venue, material and production costs for an exhibition or event, use of facilities at The University of Portsmouth, a public presentation at Aspex. Deadline June 25. Telephone +44 23 92 874523, Fax +44 23 92 874523, E-mail artspace@artspace.co.uk For more info, go to: www.artspace.co.uk
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Light Work Photography Residency
Every year Light work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse, NY to devote one month to creative projects. Over three hundred artists have participated in the AIR program, many of whom have since achieved international acclaim. The residency includes a $4,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art darkroom and digital facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual. Contact Sheet is a beautiful publication that is sent to over four thousand art lovers, museums, galleries, and libraries in over thirty-two countries. Applications are accepted throughout the year. http://www.lightwork.org/residency/resinfo.html While there is no formal deadline, we complete reviews of portfolios every two or three months. The next review process is scheduled to take place in April 2009. We are currently scheduling a couple residencies for 2009; most of the 2009 residencies have already been announced on our blog.