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2012 Artists in Residence Program at I-Park, CT

The I-Park Foundation Residences
Deadline: January 30, 2012
Application Fee: $30

 The I-Park Foundation, Inc., a 450-acre natural woodland retreat in East Haddam, CT (U.S), announces its twelfth season hosting its multi-disciplinary residency program.

Self-directed artists' residencies will be offered from May through November 2012, with off-season sessions in April and December.  Most residencies are four weeks in duration. 

Residencies are offered to creative individuals working in the following disciplines: Visual (including Environmental) Art, Music Composition/Sound Sculpture/Design, Moving Image, Creative Writing and Landscape/Garden Design.  Work samples are evaluated through a competitive, juried process.   

A $30 application fee helps defray the cost of the independent jury panels. 

Accepted artists are responsible for their own work materials as well as transportation to and from the area. 

The program is otherwise offered at no cost to accepted artists, including a basic meal program where most of, though not all, the food is provided. 

Accommodations at I-Park include comfortable private living quarters in an 1850's era farmhouse and a private studio space.  An abundance of tools, equipment, musical instruments and peripherals, site materials, an electric kiln, wireless internet and library facilities are provided.   

International applicants are welcome.

To defray the cost of travel, four $750.00 grants will be awarded to international artists whose work is held in particularly high regard by the Grant Committee. 

Application materials are available online at http://www.i-park.org/residency.html

For more information, contact Brad Tuggle, Residency Program Director, by e-mail:
applications@i-park.org or by phone: 860-873-2468.

 

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is looking for a chief curator

Chief curator position, Berlin
Deadline: January 31, 2012

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is looking for a chief curator to work at KW for a fixed term of three years, starting on January 1, 2013. The term can be extended for an additional two years.

http://www.kw-berlin.de

Job Description
The chief curator's core task is to shape the curatorial profile of KW's future by developing and implementing exhibitions over the course of three years. In addition to this the chief curator will also be involved in all of KW's other activities.

The requirements for application are:
- excellent knowledge of contemporary art and cultural practice
- experience in international organizations or projects focusing on contemporary art
- experience in the organization of extensive exhibition projects
- excellent organizational, fundraising, communication and especially interpersonal skills

Applications will be accepted until Tuesday, January 31, 2012 and must include an extended curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation as well as your salary ideas. The result of the selection procedure will be announced after a series of interviews in summer 2012.

Please send your application to:

Gabriele Horn
Director
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69
10117 Berlin
Germany

DirectorATkw-berlin.de

Further information on KW Institute for Contemporary Art: http://www.kw-berlin.de/

Harpo Foundation 2012 Grants

New Process and Deadline for 2012 Grant Cycle
Deadline: February 1, 2012
Application Fee: None

2012 Grant Cycle
Harpo Foundation will use a new 2-step application process to review proposals submitted by non-profit institutions and fiscal sponsors who seek support on behalf of under recognized visual artists. Unlike in 2010 and 2011, the foundation will not use a thematic focus to prioritize funding in 2012.

Proposals
The foundation will consider proposals that directly support the production of new work by visual artists and/or collaborative teams who are under recognized by the field. This production may happen in the context of an installation, public intervention, residency, or exhibition.

Criteria
In its grantmaking, Harpo Foundation prioritizes projects that advance and cross the boundaries of visual media and artistic disciplines. Proposals are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the artist's work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and the strength of its relationship to the foundation's priority to provide support to visual artists who are under recognized by the field.

Funding
The foundation awards between 10-15 grants annually and funding decisions are made by the Board of Directors. As a general guideline, requests should not exceed $10,000 per year. Allowable use-of-funds includes direct support to the artist for honoraria, commissioning fees, production costs, and travel.

All projects funded during the 2012 funding cycle should be completed by September 2013. Projects that are scheduled in 2012 but happen prior to the foundation's November notification date may be eligible for funding on a retroactive basis.

In rare cases the foundation will fund multiyear projects up to 3 years to provide support to artists whose projects rely on the passage of time as an essential component to its concept and structure. Of interest are durational approaches as they relate to changes in the physical environment, or as they inform an artist's process. Proposals must demonstrate that the complexity of an artist's project -its temporal and/or spatial dimensions - is time dependent. For example, a project that cannot be completed independent of a particular time frame because its very structure is based on seasonal shifts or a requirement to visit and document a certain place a number of times to collect information or research how a subject changes over time. The foundation is interested in supporting projects that will allow time and its properties of change to become a part of the project's cumulative process.

Single year projects that have durational qualities will be considered under this special interest as well.

Questions about the relevance of a project to this multi year funding should be addressed to the Director by emailing Julie Deamer at jdeamer@harpofoundation.org.

 

http://harpofoundation.org/grants.html

 

Eligibility
Tax exempt 501c3 organizations are eligible.
Institutions in countries outside of the United States are eligible but if awarded must be prepared to supply the foundation with a legal affidavit written in English qualifying its tax exempt activities and structure.
Presenting venues and hosting organizations may only submit one application a year.
Individual artists may not apply on behalf of themselves but may apply in cooperation with a fiscal sponsor. Unlike presenting venues and hosting organizations, artist-support organizations that serve as fiscal sponsors may submit on behalf of more than one artist a year.

Application Process and Deadlines
Harpo Foundation receives many more applications than it is able to fund. Therefore, as a way to guide applicants through an open process, letters of inquiry must be submitted prior to being invited to submit a full application.

Step One: Letter of Inquiry
Eligible candidates interested in applying for a grant must first submit this Letter of Inquiry Form online - http://www.jotform.com/jsdeamer/harpoinquiryform.org

Letter of Inquiry Deadline: February 1, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)
Notification: Applicants will be notified by March 15, 2012 if a full application is requested

Step Two: Full Proposal
Applicants whose projects best match the foundation's priorities and interests will be invited to submit a full proposal by March 15, 2012

Applicants must submit full proposals using the foundation's online application (available March 15, 2012)
Full proposal deadline: April 20, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)
Notification: Grant decisions announced no later than November 1, 2012
 
 
  
 

 

 

 

 

Abbey Painting Awards 2012

Scholarship and Fellowships in Painting 2012
Deadline: January 13th 2012
Application Fee: £ 25

Abbey Awards are open to citizens of the UK and the US. Abbey Awards are also open to painters of other nationalities provided they have been resident in the UK or US for at least five years.
The Abbey Scholarship offers an early-career painter a full academic year (October to June) at the British School at Rome.
The Abbey Fellowships offer mid-career painters three months at the School during the same period.
There is no age limit.

Application and further information
http://www.abbey.org.uk/

Completed applications must arrive with the Administrator no later than 18:00 on Friday January 13th 2012 (postmarked that date is not acceptable). US candidates should mail their applications well ahead of the deadline and use the US postal system (not private couriers e.g. FedEx, UPS etc. that attract customs and other fees payable on arrival which will not be paid by Abbey).

Shortlisting will take place in London during early February and candidates will be notified whether or not they have been shortlisted by the end of February

Interviews will be held in London in the first half of March. Candidates from the USA may be interviewed by telephone, but experience suggests that they have a better chance of success if they come to London for the interview.

Contact details for enquiries and address for applications :

Administrator, Abbey Awards
1 St Lukes Court,
136 Falcon Road
London SW11 2LP, UK

contact@abbey.org.uk
http://www.abbey.org.uk/

 

 

Thesis Exhibition Curator For Transart Institute in Berlin

Local Berlin curator sought for MFA exhibition summer 2012.
Deadline: January 1, 2012
Application Fee: None

Transart Institute, an international MFA/PhD art program will hold a summer MFA thesis exhibition at the Atelierhof Kreuzberg in Berlin from July 28 - August 11, 2012 for eleven artists working in a range of media, including video, performance, sculpture, and sound. The exhibition curator will conduct "studio" visits via Skype in the spring giving editing and installation input and meet up with the students on site the week prior to the exhibition for installation giving the students insight into the curatorial process and instructions on professional development.

You will have access to architectural plans and may visit the space prior for planning. Supporting input will come from two Transart faculty. In addition to the installation period, you will be asked to give an introduction to the exhibition for the catalog as well as the vernissage and be responsible for organizing signage. The honorarium for this project will be $3,000.

For more information about Transart Institute please visit our website.
http://www.transartinstitute.org/About.html

Please send letter of interest including CV and project web links to: cella@transart.org by January 1, 2012.

 

sundaymorning@ekwc artist-in-residence program 2013, The Netherlands

Call for applications
Deadline: January 8, 2012
Application Fee: 35 Euro

sundaymorning@ekwc is an internationally renowned ceramic work centre where visual artists, designers, architects and other creative professionals can explore the artistic possibilities of ceramics. This is realised in three ways: through the artist-in-residence program, the centre-of-excellence and the FabLab.

Artist-in-residence program
As an artist-in-residence sundaymorning@ekwc accommodates twelve participants at a time who can experiment with ceramics during a three month work period. We offer you a studio, an apartment and the advice of our expert staff.

Centre-of-excellence
Simultaneously, sundaymorning@ekwc acts as a research centre; a centre-of-excellence. The centre's experts document everything that is being discovered, invented and created at the institute. Through exhibitions, lectures, publications etc. the centre valorises the results from the artist-in-residence program.

FabLab
The FabLab is our digital workshop where visual artists, designers and architects can experiment with Cad/Cam equipment like 3D printers and cutters, or produce their prototypes. We offer the possibility to combine 3D modelling with mould making and realising your design in ceramics.

Residencies
A residency at sundaymorning@ekwc is a lifetime experience. Living and working here for three months allows you to focus entirely on your work while the exchange with fellow artists, designers or architects can be very stimulating and inspiring.
We offer various residencies depending on the kind of work you want to make: how much do you want to experiment? Would you like to use our Cad/Cam facilities? Have a look at the APPLY section of our website to see which residency suits you.

Participants
Our participants are visual artists, designers and architects, over 75% of whom have not worked with ceramics before. They come from all over the world, their age ranges between 25 and 65 years. Each year we reserve 8 vacancies for young participants who recently graduated.
For those who are new to ceramics the introduction to the material can lead to amazing results thanks to the experience of our supervisors who will guide you through the process. And if you have worked with ceramics before, we know you will be challenged by the possibilities you find at sundaymorning@ekwc!

Call for applications
Creative professionals interested in a residency can now apply for the residence program 2013,
All ceramics residencies for 2012 are filled. If you are interested in a Cad/Cam residency, you may still inquire after openings in the 2012 program.

Application procedure
You can apply using the forms downloadable from our website (http://sundaymorning.ekwc.nl/). They include an application form and a questionnaire.
We ask for a résumé including documentation of your work and a work plan detailing the direction of your research or, more specifically, of the objects you wish to produce. There is a 35 EUR application fee that can be transferred online.
Application forms and documentation can be sent to application@ekwc.nl

Selection procedure
A committee of sundaymorning@ekwc staff will judge technical challenge, originality and innovativeness of the work plans submitted. An international selection committee will consider motivation and artistic merit of the applicant.

Deadline
Send us a proposal we can't refuse before January 8, 2012.
Applicants will be informed of the result of the selection before April 1, 2012.

Contact and inquiries
Wies van Opstal
wies@ekwc.nl
+31 (0)73 612 45 00

sundaymorning@ekwc
Zuid Willemvaart 215
5211 SG 's-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
T +31 (0)73 612 45 00

info@ekwc.nl
http://sundaymorning.ekwc.nl/

Careof / Supportico Lopez: E Il Topo Open Call

E Il Topo Open Call
Deadline: February 26, 2012
Application Fee: None

E IL TOPO, in collaboration with CAREOF DOCVA Milan and SUPPORTICO LOPEZ Berlin, calls for submissions for its Number 12 titled "Re-Birth":
E IL TOPO - art magazine published between 1992–1996 with Piero Cavellini "Edizioni Nuovi Strumenti" from an idea by Gabriele Di Matteo, Franco Silvestro and Vedovamazzei—has proposed unedited projects, conceived to be seen exclusively through its pages. With the contributions of artists such as Art Club 2000, Stefano Arienti, Massimo Bartolini, Maurizio Cattelan, Vanessa Beecroft, Mark Dion, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Eva Marisaldi, Grazia Toderi, among others, E IL TOPO has prophetically recorded the spirit and attitude of a generation of artists which, at that time, was about to achieve definitive international recognition both by the critique and the public.

The 12th issue will be produced in 2012, sixteen years after the publication of the last issue of the magazine in collaboration with CAREOF DOCVA and SUPPORTICO LOPEZ. This new number wants to show from the beginning a strong sense of continuity, and at the same time of innovation, in relation with the last edition.

The open call is for the retrieval of photographic material, more specifically portraits, of personalities from the art world who passed away along the last 16 years, thus in the lapse of time in which E IL TOPO disappeared without a trace. Each submission should make clear the source of the submitted image; unpublished images in 300dpi are preferred. The collected material will be successively selected and displayed in the magazine, which will be presented March 27th after a workshop and a one-month series of events in Milan at Careof DOCVA. From February 29th to March 27th the venue, will work as the headquarters of E IL TOPO.

You can download the complete guidelines and application form at http://www.careof.org

http://www.careof.org/docs/GuidelinesEnglish_001.pdf

Please send your submission to redazione@eiltopo.org before February 26, 2012

Careof is an Italian non-profit organization for the promotion of contemporary artistic research founded in 1987 in Cusano Milanino (Milan). Since the beginning, Careof's activity has concentrated on two primary topics, developed over the following years. On the one hand, Careof is designed as a space open to artistic and cultural experimentation. On the other, is an original center for the archiving and documentation of different artists' materials available for the consultation by the general public at DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts.

A very important goal was reached in 2006, when the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali included Careof in the nationally relevant Historical Archives.
In 2001 Careof moved at Fabbrica del Vapore, a multidisciplinary cultural center in Milan, where, in addition to the activity of promoting and documenting contemporary art, the organization started a residency program. http://www.careof.org/, http://www.docva.org

Supportico Lopez was born in Naples in 2003 as the project of two artists and a curator who decided to have a room in their flat open to public exhibitions of international artists. The project continued to be run along the years by Gigiotto Del Vecchio—one of the founders—and Stefania Palumbo as a curatorial space for contemporary art diffusion, taking its name from the street in which it was located in Naples, in one of the oldest and most characteristic and most contradictory districts of the city: "la Sanità".

In 2008 Supportico Lopez decided to start a new life again, moving away to Berlin. Here, in the new space in Graefestrasse 9 in Kreuzberg, the aim is to be a gallery in which both directors' curatorial attitude will become more and more a peculiarity.

http://www.supporticolopez.com/

 

 

The Really Wild Show, SPACE Studios Residencies, London

4 residencies for emerging artists working with contemporary technological culture.
Deadline: Wednesday 18 January 2012, 5pm.
Application Fee: None

4 x one month residencies at SPACE in London between March - April 2012 preceded by a four day residential retreat 20 - 24 Feb.

Borrowing the title from the 1990’s children’s television show, The Really Wild Show sets out a loose framework of ‘wildness’ and its existence in spite of or resulting from technological industry. This is not only the wild-ness of the urban fox thriving off our wasted fried chicken or the explosion of marine life around the waste outfall pipes from Dungeness B. It is celebrities in the jungle and BBC faked wild polar bear births. It is urban Blue Tits performing an ‘avian rap’ or “Ballard’s perverse (but tender) ecology of petrol, blood, semen, crumpled metal” (Sinclair, I, 2010, in introduction to The Unofficial Countryside by Mabey,R, 1972). And whilst we dream of a separate romantic wilderness, it is more and more apparent that nature and technology are not diametrically opposed but evolving together as part of a greater ecology.

We seek proposals from artists questioning the perception and realisation of the 'wild' through the very technologies we now use to access and form our world. While it is important that artists are engaged with technology* in their work, we are more interested in how artists explore technology and its shaping of contemporary experience rather than demonstrations of new technologies and their possibilities.

* We define technology as anything from a compost toilet to lasers or RFID technologies.

http://spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/permacultures/the-really-wild-show-call-for-applications

Details
Deadline for Submission: 18 JAN 2012, 5pm
Residency: March - April 2012 (exact dates to be confirmed with selected artists)
Retreat: 20 - 24 Feb 2012 in Dungeness. Selected artists MUST attend this trip. Those who cannot attend will be in-eligible to partake in the residency cycle.

Artists receive a fee of £1200 with a production budget of £500

Residencies are based in SPACE's MediaLab, with access to larger space to build work as and where necessary. Artists receive access to all our media equipment, meetings with curators and SPACE staff and support and space to make new work as needed.

Criteria
This is an open call for proposals for Emerging artists / writers. One residency is for an artist or writer whose practice is primarily Internet based.

While we do not stipulate an age limit, the residencies are intended to support artists who do not have a significant UK art profile and who will significantly benefit from the support the residency offers.

We use the term artists in the broadest sense of the term including art, design, writing, hackers and activists. Selection will be based upon the proposal, previous work and how the residency will benefit the artist.

Artists can come from anywhere in the UK, however the selection panel will select at least 2 artists from London.

Selection Panel

Jim Prevett, SPACE
Paul Pieroni, SPACE
Toby Huddlestone, Crate, Southend

Deadline
Weds 18th January 2012, 5pm.

Selection Panel will meet week beginning 23rd January 2012

Please send:

- A proposal (no longer than 2 pages of A4) saved as pdf
- A CV saved as pdf
- Documentation of previous work (no more than 6 images / 5 min video showreel) as a pdf, as links to online video / sites.

Digital submissions only please
Please email submission to jim@spacestudios.org.uk

 

 

Elsahara Art Residence, Dahab, Egypt

Call for application
Deadline: January 5 2012
Application Fee: None

Elsahara art gallery is a new gallery of contemporary art. The gallery has a pioneering to show visual Arts through the foreign artists, and young Egyptian artists who are invited to Elsahara art residence.

Dahab Divers is located close to the Lighthouse in Dahab. Either follow the seaside promenade to Dahab Masbat or the El Fanar Street to the Lighthouse. Within a beautiful swmming pool, and palm tree garden you will find the hotel and dive center.

Duration: minimum 1 week, maximum 1 month.

Paid by artist:
International participants should assume travel costs to and from Dahab as well as their living cost for the duration of the programme.

Paid by host:
25% is paid for the artist accommodation. Exhibition and gallery fees.

Disciplines: Ceramics, Drawing & Painting, Media Art, Multi Media, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts

Language: English

 

Application Guidelines and Criteria:

Applications should consist of:
Artist's statement/One-page resume/CV
Two professional references, (Names, addresses, E-Mails, and phone numbers of two professional references able to assess applicant’s personal integrity, cooperation and reliability)
Each applicant shall submit a “statement of purpose” – what they would like to accomplish during the residency (no more than one page)
Five to ten photos or other images of your own, individual artistic works and a signed statement attesting that all works are your own
Please do not send an incomplete application, send the application electronically (by via email only)

Accommodation information:
· 8 comfortably furnished rooms with shower or bathtub and toilet
· 6 rooms with double beds, 2 of the rooms can be used as 3-bed rooms
· all rooms with air-condition
· all rooms with 19" LCD TV via satellite
· all rooms with minibar
· room service available
· WLAN

 

For accommodation information, please visit: http://www.dahabdivers.com/
Email: elsaharartgallery@yahoo.com

 

 

Call for papers/ presentations/ performance: Hostings 6 & 7, London

Call for papers/ presentations/ performance: Hostings 6 & 7, London
Deadline: 13th January 2012 
Application Fee: None

Hosting 6: "Absence -  Haunted Landscapes"
Hosting 7: "Presence - Manifesting Ghosts"

We invite proposals for papers, presentations, or performances of 30 minutes exploring the desire and attempt to materialise what is absent via the medium of haunted landscapes or through the manifestation of a ghost.  We would like to hear from practising artists as well as researchers within the fields of anthropology, art history, cultural studies, film studies, history, law, literary studies, parapsychology, psychology, philosophy etc.

The Hostings will take place in the Court Room, University of London, Senate House between 6.30 - 9.00pm on the 29th February and 14th March. Please send a (working) title and an abstract/ proposal of approximately 300 words.

lnclude which Hosting you are submitting to and, if applicable, one or two pictures.  

Send these to Sarah Sparkes at: ghost.hostings@gmail.com

Deadline for submissions of proposals: 13th January 2012 

More information here:
http://host-a-ghost.blogspot.com/2011/11/call-for-paperspresentations-hostings-6.html