Art Gallery of Ontario's Artist-in-Residence Program: Call for Proposals

A Paid Residency for Artists: To connect with families and multi-generational audiences at the AGO

Are you, or do you know, an artist, collective and/or culture group interested in working with young families and multi-generational audiences? If so, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has an opportunity to share.

The AGO is launching an innovative community residency, in conjunction with our winter exhibitions, public programs and learning streams. As a destination of choice for families of all shapes and sizes during March Break, the AGO invites artists and collectives to apply for an interactive two-month long residency (February 4 – March 31, 2019) to present their work as part of the AGO’s program of activities throughout March Break (March 9 – 17, 2019).

We are looking for artists who can conceptually combine contemporary art practices with maker experiences and live performance, and create a platform for experimentation and engagement for families during our winter season.

The artist or collective in residence will be asked to develop and present one distinct, interactive, collaborative artist project in Walker Court, our central exhibition space. In the case of a maker project, the artist project installation would accumulate over nine days; for other disciplines, the artist project would develop throughout and culminate at the end of March Break. The presentations should be geared for large multi-generational audiences, with a particular focus on young families.

The selected artist will have the opportunity to work with and join the AGO’s programming team while receiving valuable feedback from artist-educators, family facilitators and a production team to realize their proposals.

An honorarium of $8,000 CDN will be provided for the successful artist or collective in residence, including production time and material expenses. The successful artist or collective in residence must be available March 8 – 18, 2019 for program implementation.

Your work will inspire curiosity, fun, conversation, engagement, collaboration, spectacle and social relevance.

Application deadline: Thursday, November 15, 2018 @ 11:59 pm EST.

Xpace Cultural Centre annual fall programming launch and back-to-school party

Xpace Cultural Centre invites you to join them for their annual FREE fall programming launch and back-to-school party on September 8 from 7-11pm, featuring new work created this summer at Akin Lansdowne by our summer artists-in-residence Emily Norry and Kendra Lee, with accompanying essay by Sam Roberts. Emily, Kendra and Sam were winners of the Xpace Summer Residency Program for OCAD U graduates.

September 8 – October 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, September 8, 7-11pm

Poster by Wil Brask

Emily Norry, Queeries into History: The Love of Loring and Wyle (Project Space)

With accompanying essay by Sam Roberts.

This series by Emily Norry explores the lives of Toronto artists Frances Loring and Florence Wyle and their lifetime spent together. Through this show, Norry looks to expand upon her series Queeries into History with a more in depth exploration of these two artists. Where Queeries into History was meant to outline an entire ancestry of queer women through time, The Love of Loring and Wyle is a biography of two beloved but often forgotten artists that helped shape Toronto’s art world, while never wavering in their commitment to one another.

Using watercolour printmaking, Norry takes historical photos of Loring and Wyle’s careers and personal lives, paints them in colour and transfers them onto fabric. These leave images cracked, faded, and sometimes warped from the originals; this is reflective of the way history is often forgotten and overwritten in modern view. These images are then embellished, with embroidery, patterning and dried flowers as a way to describe intimacy, relationships and the way the past is reframed and added to in the present. The works will explore their sculptures, time as students, associations with arts societies, and their more then 50 year relationship. 

www.emilynorry.com

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Kendra Yee, Pantry Shelf (Window Space)

With accompanying essay by Sam Roberts.

The attempts to trace back family lineage are swallowed by the movements of time. Documents discarded, photographs burned, tombstones never carved and names changed to survive systems. Mimicking the setup of Kendra Yee’s Yeh-Yeh’s corner store in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, this installation honours family-run businesses. The items displayed replace the culture that has been lost, reclaiming broken narratives and forming new stories.

www.kendrayee.com

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Save the date! Akin will be visiting these exhibitions as a part of our Fall Gallery Crawl on Saturday September 16. Stay tuned for more info! 

Reclaim Artist Residency, Haliburton School of Art + Design

Reclaim Artist Residency is an opportunity for established artists to work in the Haliburton Highlands for a 6 - 8 week period between June and August.

Interested artists are invited to submit proposals that will detail how they plan to work with the local landfill as part of their art practice. Reclaim Artist Residency hopes to attract artists seeking to create art that shares their knowledge, respect and understanding of recycling and waste management. The residency is also intended to educate the greater community on the impact of the landfill on our environment. How this will be achieved should be included in the submission.

The selected artist will be provided with a studio space at the Haliburton Campus. The studio will be open to the public enabling the community to visit the artist’s studio, view work in progress and ask questions. Artists are welcome to access college equipment. Artists are responsible for their own consumable supplies. Artists are also expected to provide one public lecture to the college community.

Concluding the residency, there will be a public display of the artist’s work in the community and one piece will be donated to HSAD’s annual Faculty Art Auction. All proceeds from the Art Auction are directed to bursaries for students attending arts programs at the Haliburton Campus.

Deadline is April 24, 2017

The City of Guelph seeks artists for 2017 residency program

The City of Guelph invites professional artists and artist teams to submit proposals for its 2017 Artist in Residence program.

The successful artist/team will develop an innovative and thought-provoking project that engages the community and encourages reflection of Guelph’s history in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday and the City’s 190th anniversary.

“The shape and form the project takes is really up to the artist,” says Stacey Dunnigan, the City’s manager of Culture and Tourism. “The end result could be anything from a temporary installation, to a digital collection, or a live performance. The main goal is to achieve a shared artistic experience with the community while animating public space.”

The program is open to all art forms, including visual, literary or performing arts, architecture and design, or media arts such as sound, video or photography. Artists should note this is not a live-in residency, and the $6,000 budget is inclusive of all components of the project.

Professional artists or artist teams with a history of public presentation, community building, exhibition and/or publishing experience are invited to apply by March 13.

Visit guelph.ca/AIRguelph to read the full Call to Artists and learn about the application and selection process.

About the City of Guelph Artist in Residence program

The City’s Artist in Residence program, guided by the Council-approved Public Art Advisory Committee, offers opportunities for artists to engage the public and showcase their creative practices while broadening the community’s experience of the arts. Animating public space—indoor, outdoor or online—is an integral part of the program and contributes to placemaking and civic pride.

Glenfiddich Issues Call to Canadian Artists to Enter Competition for the Coveted 2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Prize

Glenfiddich® Single Malt Whisky is issuing an Open Call to Artists currently living and working in Canada to enter the internationally renowned competition for the prestigious 2017 Glenfiddich® Artists in Residence Prize.

The Canadian winner will be one of eight artists worldwide to be awarded the coveted prize to live and work at the Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown, Scotland. The three-month summer residency is valued at $20,000 CDN per artist. Now in its 16th year, the program covers the cost of travel, living expenses and materials throughout the residency.

While living in crofts (traditional small Scottish farm houses), artists are encouraged to take inspiration from the unique setting in the Scottish Highlands. The experience provides an opportunity unlike any other for artists to work in an international community, share in a dialogue with other artists and foster cross-disciplinary ideas.

Online submissions open Wednesday, December 7, 2016 and must be received by midnight (Eastern Standard Time) Wednesday, January 25, 2017 (Robbie Burns day).


For more information and to apply please visit www.glenfiddich.com/ca/artistsinresidence

 

Call for Submissions - Centre [3] for print and media arts Residency 2016/17

Centre [3] is proud to continue its residency Programme for emerging artists. Continuing with our efforts to promote and encourage art-making practices; Centre [3] is offering two residencies, commencing December 2016 and continuing through to mid-February 2017. Following the Residency, the artists will be showcased in the main exhibition space of the Centre. (Feb 23 to April 7, 2017.)

Artists must:

• Have completed, or are enrolled in, postsecondary education.
• Be in the early stages of their career with less then 5 years of exhibition history.

Centre [3] will provide:

• Unlimited access to the traditional or digital studios for the duration of the residency. (Within Centre hours)
• Five hours of free tech assistance.
• A free membership for one year.
• A $200.00 Stipend.
• 10 sheets of paper (traditional print).
• 5 feet of digital paper.
• Free tech support.

To apply please provide the following information:

1. Contact information, name, address, phone, email, website.
2. 10 images. (jpeg, 1MB max)
3. Artist statement. (500 words max.)
4. C.V. (Three pages max)
5. Letter of intent. (Let us know what you are planning to do) 500 words max.
   (Please place all text in one document, doc or pdf, with images separate.)

Due date is November 15, 2016

Please email or deliver the application package to:
Residency at Centre [3]
173 James street North
Hamilton, On.
L8R 2K9
programming@centre3.com