2010 I-Park Residency Programs – Applications Status
(January 21, 2010)

The application period for our multi-disciplinary residency program is now closed and we have begun processing the submissions.  Thanks for the enthusiastic response to our call to artists.  We are looking forward to reviewing your proposals.

For the Expressiones Latin American Visual Arts program, see below.

We will be posting notices and opening the application processing system for the remaining 2010 programs in the coming weeks: Landscape Architecture/Garden Design and Thanatopolis.  To those who advised us of their interest in these programs, we will also be sending you an e-mail advising you when these programs are ready to go.

 

Expressiones Latin American Program – Visual Arts

I-Park is pleased to announce its continuing collaboration with the New London (Connecticut)-based Latin American community arts organization, Expressiones, in establishing two reserved residency sessions for Latin American artists in 2010.  Visual artists from among the following countries are invited to apply for available 2010 residency slots under this program:

Argentina

Cuba
Bolivia
Honduras
Chile
Mexico
Colombia
Peru
Costa Rica
Venezuela

Expressiones will be the curator, administrator and coordinator of this program.

Of the two accepted artists for 2010, the one receiving the highest jury score will receive a grant of $750 to help defray the cost of travel to the United States.

Also, for 2010, each of the two invited visual artists will be offered a gallery show and artist’s presentation at the Expressiones Cultural Center in New London at some point during their residency session.

Please note the following restrictions for this program:

  • Artists must have their primary residency address in one of the above countries.
  • Residency sessions being offered are for September, October and November 2010 (click here for a copy of the Residency Program Calendar indicating specific program dates).
  • Only artists working in the field of visual arts are eligible for this program.  This category is for work where the visual imagery is essentially static: sculpture, two-dimensional work, photography, environmental art, installation and mixed media.

For specific inquires on the program and Spanish language support, contact Guido Garaycochea or Jose Ulloa at latins@expressiones.net

  Application Deadline is February 28, 2010

Click here for application instructions and to
connect to our online application submission system.

 

 

In a Nutshell

• The program is offered free of charge to accepted/invited applicants, though there is a $25 application processing fee.

• I-Park provides a private bedroom and shared bath (comfortable facilities), private studio, artists’ meal program (most, though not all, food is provided) and some shared amenities: library, Common Area, inviting artists’ kitchen, wireless internet.

• The only major cost to the artist is transportation to and from the area (if you’re not driving, you get a pick up at the beginning of the session and a drop-of at the end at a Connecticut airport or bus/train station).

• Six $750 travel grants in 2010 will be offered to international artists who’ve been offered residencies by their respective selection juries (separate, subsequent competitive process conducted by the grant committee).

• I-Park hosts artists working in the following fields: music composition, the visual (including environmental, installation, digital and memorial) arts, landscape architecture and garden design, creative writing, architecture.

• Six artists from various disciplines share the space during each session.

• Self-directed format: you decide what you’re going to do and when, social activities are optional.

• The typical residency session has a 4-week duration, with a limited number of 2-week and 8-week residencies offered.  Season runs from May through November, with possible alternative or special sessions in March, April and/or December.

 




General Residency Program Overview

The Artists’ Enclave at I-Park is a multi-disciplinary, international residency program for artists looking for time and space to conceive and execute new ideas and to work on existing projects. The quiet, retreat-like environment at I-Park is intended to be conducive to the creative process and the program is designed to foster a collegial atmosphere and sense of community among the participating artists. The rich natural environment often tempts artists to consider site-specific responses to their surroundings.

The Artists’ Enclave typically hosts 6 artists at a time for 4-week residencies from May through November. I-Park provides each artist with comfortable living quarters 
in a re-modeled 1850’s era farmhouse and a private studio located on the grounds

Studio spaces and staff support are primarily designed to support artists in the following disciplines: visual arts, landscape and garden design, music composition, creative writing, new media and architecture. While we are open to consideration of other more specialized disciplines, as a general rule we focus on the creative phase of the artistic process and do not, for example, have facilities that support the performing arts.

Participation in the residency program is primarily determined by a competitive selection process that follows an open call to artists. Applications are 
evaluated by separate, balanced, rotating juries in 
 the following fields:
 
  • visual arts
  • creative writing 
  • music composition
  • environmental art (biennial program)
 
  • the moving image
  • landscape/garden design
  • architecture

The residency program has a modest invitation element as well. Artists whose work is held in particularly high regard by selection committee members and staff as well as those artists proposing projects of special/strategic significance for the I-Park vision are invited to participate alongside and on the same terms as those offered residencies by virtue of the jury system.

I-Park selections are based on the strength of the artist’s existing body of work, the perceived importance of the creative project(s) being proposed by the artist for his/her residency and an evaluation of the likelihood of the artist achieving success and satisfaction in the I-Park environment. We enthusiastically welcome candidates from varying backgrounds, with varying belief systems and of differing age groups.