ARTIST RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS: WINTER DEADLINES

I hope you all had a good week....here are a few deadlines in case you are in the mood for applying for something this coming month. January is a BIG month for application deadlines, for residencies as well as grants, so you might want to do some serious hunting on my blog. Below are only a few among many. If you are hankering to apply to the residency of your dreams, I highly suggest going to the residency links on my sidebar and do a search for specific places. Until next time....Have a Happy New Year! Yours, Mira

(ALL) Residency at I-Park, Connecticut: Residencies will be offered to national and international visual (including digital) artists, music composers, environmental artists, landscape and garden designers, creative writers and architects. Work samples are evaluated through a competitive, juried process. There is a $25 application fee. I-Park is introducing a modest food program for 2010 where most, though not all, of the food will be provided. The facility is otherwise offered at no cost to accepted artists. To defray the cost of travel, six $750 grants will be offered in 2010 to international artists whose work is held in particularly high regard by the grant committee. Deadline January 11, 2010. For additional project information: I-Park, 428 Hopyard Road, East Haddam CT 06423 OR 860-873-2468 OR http://www.i-park.org OR [email protected]

(ALL) Blue Sky Summer Collaborative Residencies: Collaborative Residencies in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. Because of the collaborative nature of Blue Sky Project, your project must have an open-ended structure, be achievable in eight weeks, and stay within a $1,000 budget (excluding final exhibition expenses) and must engage others in its articulation and production. Previous projects have included: sculptural sound installation, video installation, performance, musical composition, dance installation, 2D visual-art and photography, self-published magazines, and site-specific interventions. Contact: Benkendorf, Blue Sky Project, Box 10506, Dayton OH 45402 OR 937-732-5123 OR http://www.blueskydayton.org OR [email protected]. Deadline is January 23rd, 2010.

(ALL) Elsewhere Collaborative Residency: Elsewhere Collaborative, a living museum and experimental production environment in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, USA is now accepting applications from artists of all genres for residencies in 2010. Elsewhere is set within a three-story former thrift store, boarding house, and warehouse containing one woman's enormous 58-year collection of American surplus, thrift, and antiques. Elsewhere residencies invites experimental creators to join their collaborating community in utilizing this immense collection of objects. Artists live and work within interactive installations that provide evolving frameworks for investigating collaborations, community structures, and creative processes. Residency fellowship funding for travel, room and board, is available in exchange for hosting an educational workshop during the residency. Deadlines are rolling every other month; the deadline for fellowships is January 31 2010. Read more and download a brochure at http://elsewhereelsewhere.org/programs/residencies.

(ARTISTS & WRITERS) Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Residency Fellowships: The Vermont Studio Center is offering fellowships for artists and writers who live with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Spinal Cord Disease (SCD) or who use a wheelchair and/or have a spinal cord injury. Deadline is February 15, 2010. The Vermont Studio Center has been dedicated to supporting a multidisciplinary community of contemporary painters, printmakers, sculptors and writers for 25 years; and offers more than 50 mid-career and emerging artists and writers per month distraction-free working time and space and the inspiration of distinguished mentors. These fellowships provide a 4-week VSC residency at the Studio Center, including uninterrupted studio time, accessible accommodations and a supportive community of international peers and mentors. Please visit the website for more information: http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org.

(WRITERS) The James Merrill House Writer-in-Residence Program: Writers can apply to live and work in James Merrill's Stonington, Connecticut, rent-free for five or eleven month terms. A stipend is provided as well. Application deadline is January 15, 2010. Please visit the website for more info: www.jamesmerrillhouse.org.

(WRITERS) University of Arizona Poetry Center Residency: Each summer, the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson offers a month-long residency, including a stipend of $500, to a poet, fiction writer, or creative nonfiction writer who has published no more than one full-length book. This year's residency is for prose writers. Residents are provided with housing. Deadline is February 26. For more information, go to: www.poetrycenter.arizona.edu.