UPCOMING RESIDENCY DEADLINES

(A, ARCH, MUSIC) Residency at Raumars AIR in Finland
Deadline: April 30th, 2009
New at Raumars: Two stage residency. Curator, artist or artist group plans and starts a community art project with exhibition in 2010. Exhibition will be realized at the Lönnström Art Museum. After the first residence period in 2010 artist returns to Raumars for finalizing the project and installing the exhibition in 2011.
In 2010 we also welcome proposals and ideas which interact with immigrants and local people or are connected with cultural welfare, work welfare or health care.
Raumars A.i.R. welcomes artists to apply for a community art residency in a city of Rauma, Finland, for a year 2010. Fields of art are: visual arts, applied arts, performing arts, design, architecture and music. Residencies last usually 2-4 months.
Raumars has one appartment with 2 rooms and a kitchen located 2,5 kilometers from the city centre. There is no studio. Besides single artists a couple, small groups and families are welcome.
The applicants are expected to present a project plan for an environmental, public or community art project, which will be realized during the residency. The main selection criteria will be the artists’ motivation to work within a social context, the quality of previous art and the proposal.
More information at www.raumars.org about applying.

(MEDIA ARTS) ISIS Residency, United Kingdom
5 Charlotte Square / 1 Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4XF, UK
Duration: 3 weeks
ISIS Arts is an artist led, visual and media arts organisation with an international artistresidency, commissions, training and research programme. Their programme seeks toaddress themes of identity and cultural understanding and they engage with artists toproduce work that challenges and presents social issues within new contexts. Media artists, UK and beyond, are invited to apply for a 3 week research residency between April to end of July 2009. The emphasis for this residency is on research not on finished art work.Two studio spaces for visiting artists, a media training room, and an inflatable touring venue for sharing media arts with a wider audience.
Paid by host: Artists are offered a self-contained city centre studio space, £1200 (to include travel and accommodation costs) and access to ISIS equipment and technical support. Deadline: March 20
E-mail [email protected]
www.isisarts.org.uk

(A) Residency at ARCUS Project: Ibaraki, Japan
When: Aug - Dec. 2009
Deadline: March 31, 2009
Artist-in-residence program of ARCUS Project which aims to support the artistic activities of emerging visual artists was launched in 1995 by Ibaraki Prefectural Government as its main organizer. In its 14 years history, ARCUS has invited 71 artists from 24 countries/regions and supported their artistic projects and researches during the residence. A number of previous residency artists are now known as cutting-edge artists in international art scene. In 2009, ARCUS calls the artist who can think radically, experiment innovative ideas, and work with progressive modes of expression.
The Applicant should: be an emerging artist engaged in contemporary visual arts or other related fields, have legal permission to enter Japan, be in a state of good health and able to carry out daily activities on his / her own, have enough English or Japanese language skills to communicate with other artists and administration staff, ande not be enrolled in educational institution (undergraduate, graduate school etc.) during the residency period.
III. Period of program: Late-August through December, 2009
Artist should stay three months at the minimum, and four months at the maximum including the period of official programs (see the Program Outline on the website for the detail). The program provides: Studio, Accommodation, Transportation Fee, Allowance, For the detail of application procedure, please visit our website: (http://www.arcus-project.com/en/residence/) to download the Program Outline and Application Guideline.

(ALL) Residency at Pour Que l’Esprit Vive at La Prée, France
When: 2009/2010
Deadline: April 1, 2009
Located in the centre of France, the domain of La Prée shelters an old Cistercian abbey founded in 1141 by Saint Bernard. It was a monastery until the French Revolution after which it was in private hands for a century and a half. The domain of about 100 acres, boarded by a stream, includes meadows and forests. The buildings are located in a 12 acres park enclosed by walls and includes the abbey, the former mill of the abbey, today known as the hostelry, a number of annexes, and barns. In 1992, Pour Que l’Esprit Vive innovated in the old abbey an in residence artists program. The abbey serves as a residence of limited durations for artists of all disciplines to help them in their research and creation. It is administered by Pour que l'Esprit Vive.
The idea of creating an artistic residence was born by the need of many artists to live in a place where they could devote their time exclusively to creating for long periods (1 or 2 years); a place where they could escape the constraints of urban environments, the demands of every day life, and the noise and distractions of the city.
Seven individual residences have been allocated for artists. Each of them has two rooms, a kitchen, and bath. Besides there is a number of study rooms, a library, three workshops, one of which is devoted to engraving.
Since 1992 more than forty artists have been in residence. (Music has a special place in La Prée, due in part to the important role played by musicians in the conception of the artist-in-residence program, in particularly one can cite the cellist Dominique de Williencourt and the composer Nicolas Bacri, the first artists in residence in 1992.)
More information and application: www.pourquelespritvive.org/


(ALL) Residency at the Sacatar Foundation, Brazil
Deadline: April 10, 2009
The INSTITUTO SACATAR operates a residency program for creative individuals in all disciplines at its estate on the Island of Itaparica in the Bay of All Saints, across from the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. information online : www.sacatar.org
Click on 'Application'

(ALL) Residency at the MacDowell Colony
New Hampshire, USA
Deadline: Apr 15 2009, Sept 15 2009, Jan 15 2010
The MacDowell Colony is designed to facilitate a balance between a focus on work and interdisciplinary interaction. Private studios are available to artists 24 hours a day along with the dining and recreation rooms at Colony Hall, providing an environment adaptable to each individual's needs. To ensure the autonomy and privacy of all Colonists, no one may visit a studio without an invitation. Breakfast and dinner are served in the dining room while lunch is delivered to each studio. After dinner, occasional presentations are a traditional, elective part of the stimulating and supportive environment. Readings, slide shows, open studios, and informal performances allow Colonists to become acquainted with and inspired by one another's work. Friendships established among artists-in-residence often lead to collaborations and connections beyond the Colony.
Residencies are awarded based on a completed application to the Colony. Applications are chosen by a peer-review panel. Deadline: April 15th 2009 for residency Fall 2009
Deadline: September 2009 15th for Winter/Spring 2010, Deadline: January 15th 2010 for Summer 2010
www.macdowellcolony.org

(W) Amsterdam Writer-in-Residence Programme
Duration: 3 up to 5 months. Please mind that the writer-in-residence-programme is closed from 1 July to 1 September and from 15 December to 15 January.
The 'Residency for Writers' project is a joint initiative by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. The University of Amsterdam and Athenaeum Booksellers have made living space available in the heart of the old city.In this way, the foreign writer in residence will find lodgings not only in the historic and literary heart of Amsterdam, but also at its academic centre, with access to the University of Amsterdam library, the Academic Club and the Dutch capital's literary activities.
The writers' residence is located in the heart of Amsterdam. The square on which the apartment looks out is called "het Spui". The "Spui" is the name of the body of water that formed the city's southern border until the late 14th century.
The apartment has 90 square meters of floor space, two bedrooms, a fully equipped kitchen and several working areas, paid by host. The existing funds do not cover the author's travel expenses, but do allow for a maximum residence grant of 2000 Euro per month. A fee of 250 Euro will be deducted for service costs. Active assistance will be provided to the authors to help find subsidies in their respective countries of origin in order to finance the journey to Amsterdam. For a number of authors it will be possible to apply to existing exchange programmes that cover both travel and accommodation expenses.
Deadline: No later than six months prior to the intended period of stay.
Preference to those authors whose works have been written in or translated into the major languages and preferably also into Dutch. Authors who work in a wide range of literary genres will be given priority. Novelists, poets, essayists (of relevance to the current political debate in the Netherlands and beyond) or critics who can be linked to newspapers or magazines, are, in principle, eligible for the programme. The programme committee's choices will also be influenced by the ways in which the writer-in-residence might play his part in Amsterdam or the Netherlands. Even though the programme is mainly intended for European authors, this does not necessarily exclude authors from outside Europe. For further information or for application forms, please contact Fleur van Koppen at the programme's office.
E-mail [email protected]
www.writerinresidence.nl