Call for VisArts' Gibbs Street Resident Artists 2024-2025

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:

1. Maintain a regular presence in the Artist’s studio, with a recommended minimum of 28 hours/week.
2. Participate in VisArts’ Studio Artist Program, which meets monthly to share ideas, community, and professional development.  
3. Attend exhibition opening receptions and artist talks, and welcome the public during them as well as at scheduled Open Studio events.
4. Present an artist talk, workshop, screening, and/or other mutually agreed upon public event that engages the VisArts and greater Rockville communities and resources.  
5. 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
 

Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence Program

Deadline: July 17, 2013 (RECEIVE) or (HAND DELIVERY)


Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence Program
Jaffe Center for Book Arts
Florida Atlantic University
Wimberly Library
Boca Raton, FL
Spring 2014



The Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence Program funds two working residencies for artists each academic year at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, in the fall and spring semesters. Artists working in the book arts (and other media, too, as long as the creative project can be thought of as book arts related) are encouraged to apply for this prestigious and competitive award. We accept applications from artists from all over the world.

The Jaffe Center for Book Arts revolves around a core collection of artists' books and its educational mission focuses on all aspects of the book arts, including hand papermaking and paper decoration, letterpress printing and alternative print techniques, and bookbinding in its traditional form as well as contemporary book structures.

Poet and artist Helen M. Salzberg established the Salzberg AIR Program in 2011. Income from this endowed fund enables artists working in the book arts to come to the Jaffe Center on a semester basis to work and teach at the center. While here, the artist will produce a creative project using JCBA studios and also teach a workshop for FAU students and the general public and mentor FAU students as his or her schedule allows. The Salzberg AIR Program gives our students the opportunity to work alongside highly talented and creative book artists.

Two residencies will be awarded each academic year: one in the fall semester and one in the spring semester. The Artist in Residence (AIR) selected each semester will get his or her own office at JCBA and full use of the JCBA studios (papermaking, letterpress and book studios). The artist's residency will last for 12 weeks, though shorter or longer residencies may be accommodated as needed. In the application process, if an artist has a particularly ambitious creative project in mind, the artist may apply for a residency that would encompass two semesters. Should the two-semester residency be awarded in this case, the artist would be expected to teach one workshop in each semester.

At this time, until the endowment for the program is fully funded, the AIR receives a stipend of $3,000 for the semester.

APPLICATION
Artists who wish to compete for consideration for this prestigious opportunity must submit their application and support materials for review by a JCBA panel comprised of book artists and book arts enthusiasts. Your application packet must be submitted via post or delivered in person to JCBA and should include the following:

1. Completed application, or suitable cover letter that supplies the same information requested on the pdf.
2. Brief narrative of the creative project you envision.
3. Brief narrative of the workshop you would like to teach.
4. Current resume.
5. Any support materials you care to include: we welcome images of your work, sketches for the creative project, video... be creative and have fun.


Download Application: AIR_Application.pdf

Visit website for full details: www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/JaffeCenter/AIR


The Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts
Wimberly Library, Room 350/ 3rd floor east
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, Florida 33431
Telephone: 561.297.0226

Fiber & Book Art (West Coast)

Deadline: July 17, 2010 (RECEIVE)

Fiber & Book Art (West Coast)
Escondido Municipal Gallery
Escondido, CA
September 1 — October 1, 2010


The Escondido Arts Partnership will present their first juried Fiber & Book Art exhibition. Fiber & Book Artists working in Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington are encouraged to submit work to the show. Fiber work can include paper, felt, fabric, yarn, cloth, plant or other organic materials. 75% of the piece should be fiber.

ELIGIBILITY
You may enter Fiber & Book Art if: You are submitting your original handmade fiber work.

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee is $25.00 ($20.00 for EAP members) for one or two pieces and is non-refundable. Up to two (2) pieces may be accepted into the exhibition.

AWARDS
Cash awards will be presented to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.

COMMISSION
Sales of exhibited works are strongly encouraged. There will be a 40% commission on any works sold out of the exhibition.

JUROR: JOHN MARSHALL John is an internationally known textile artist working with techniques of paste resist dyeing. He produces a wide range of sophisticated and colorful designs, many of which show the influence of his years of study in the Orient. John aims to interpret the sensibilities and aesthetics of the ancient and ethnic world through the Japanese
paste resist process, using the actual plants and insects employed in making the original dyes.


Download: Fiber Arts prospectus 2010 [pdf]

Visit website for additional information: www.escondidoarts.org/exhibitions

Escondido Municipal Gallery
262 E. Grand Avenue
Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760-480-4101
Fax: 760-480-4121
Email: wendy.esconarts@sbcglobal.net