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. 
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