DEADLINE: July 17, 2024 (ONLINE)
Call for VisArts' Gibbs Street Resident Artists 2024-2025
VisArts’ Gibbs Street Artist Residency
Rockville, MD
Residency Dates:
August 12, 2024 - January 13, 2025
January 20, 2025 - June 20, 2025
VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for one of two six-month residencies at our studios in Rockville, Maryland. Studio space is provided free of charge. Artists receive a $3,000 stipend. Gibbs Street Artists in Residence present their work in culminating solo exhibitions.
Each year, VisArts’ Gibbs Street Artist Residency provides a unique opportunity for two dynamic individual artists or collaborative artist teams to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment over a period of six months.
Admission to VisArts’ Gibbs Street Artist Residency is highly selective, based on a review of applications by rotating panels of artists and art professionals, including painters, sculptors, film and video artists, photographers, installation artists, interdisciplinary artists, and independent curators.
VisArts is unable to provide assistance with visas for international artists. VisArts’ Gibbs Street Artist Residency doesn’t provide artist housing.
Terms of Residency
Qualified applicants are professional individual artists or collaborative artist teams over the age of 18. Students and commercial artists aren’t eligible to apply.
Artists working in all media are welcome to apply, but VisArts can’t support the use of hazardous materials that require specific ventilation requirements.
The studio may be used only for art-making activities.
VisArts’ Gibbs Street Artist in Residence will be provided with a 169-square-foot studio, free of charge, for a period of six months. Each studio is equipped with a sink, Wi-Fi connection, and abundant natural light. Studio access is 24/7 except during special VisArts events (we’ll provide advance notice). The Artist must provide their own studio furniture.
VisArts’ Gibbs Street Artist in Residence will:
- Maintain a regular presence in the Artist’s studio, with a recommended minimum of 28 hours/week.
- Participate in VisArts’ Studio Artist Program, which meets monthly to share ideas, community, and professional development.
- Attend exhibition opening receptions and artist talks, and welcome the public during them as well as at scheduled Open Studio events.
- Present an artist talk, workshop, screening, and/or other mutually agreed upon public event that engages the VisArts and greater Rockville communities and resources.
- Present a solo exhibition of work at VisArts at the end of their Residency.
Entry Fee: $0.00 All of VisArts’ calls are free.
Visit website for complete details: https://www.visartscenter.org
Online Application: https://visarts.submittable.com/submit
VisArts
155 Gibbs Street
Rockville, MD 20850
301.315.8200
