Calls For Submission: Residencies Ontario & Canada

CAETANI CENTRE: Ceramics Residency – Deadline September 30th

BANFF DIGITAL ARTS PROGRAM (x4) – Deadlines September 27th - October 4th

SPARKBOX STUDIO: Emerging Artist Residency Award – Deadline October 1st

ARTSCAPE GIBRALTER POINT: Winter Art Residency – Deadline October 10th

CENTRE 3 : Print & Media Arts – Deadline November 15th

Calls For Submission: Residencies Ontario & Canada

Caetani Centre Ceramics Residency – Deadline September 30th 

Based in Vernon BC, the program provides ceramic artists the ability to work in a supportive community environment of like-minded individuals, to share their expertise and vision, to inspire excellence and create work at the highest level in a nurturing and creative environment. The artist is provided with accommodations at the Caetani Centre, and is also provided with use of a shared studio workspace and equipment at the Vernon Community Arts Centre (VCAC) operated by the Arts Council of the North Okanagan (ACNO).

The residency is a multi-faceted experience that will include opportunities for teaching, community outreach, interaction with other artists, and studio care, and will culminate in an exhibition of new work.

·  Deadline to Apply for 2018: September 30th, 2017

·  Successful applicants will be notified October 15th 2017

·  Residency: January 4th – March 31st (dates are flexible) 2018

·  Solo exhibition: resident will have a show during the last two weeks of their stay.

Please visit www.caetani.org to apply. 

Banff Digital Arts Program Residencies (x4) – Deadlines September 27th to October 4th

Arts Writer in Residence 2018
January 15 – June 29, 2018
Application deadline: September 27, 2017
This six-month residency will provide time, space, and access to resources for mid-career arts writers to further develop their curatorial and critical writing, conduct research, while engaging with artists-in-residence and programs in Visual + Digital Arts. This residency is suited to arts writers focused on the development of a substantial project resulting in an external publication, presentation, or exhibition with a strong critical arts writing component.

Curator in Residence 2018
January 15 – June 29, 2018
Application deadline: September 27, 2017

This six-month residency will provide time, space, and access to resources for mid-career curators to develop an exhibition or project, conduct research, while engaging with artists-in-residence and programs in Visual + Digital Arts. This residency is suited to curators focused on the development of a substantial project resulting in an external public exhibition or curatorial event.

Big Bang Residency
December 11 – 15, 2017
Application deadline: October 4, 2017
Artists, designers, architects, scientists, engineers, and other creative professionals are invited to submit proposals to create an interactive public art work that references science, technology, and collective experience. The successful project will be built over the course of a year in Calgary, beginning with a planning and incubation residency hosted at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The work will premiere in September 2018 at Beakerhead in Calgary, Canada.

The Evolving Book: Contemporary Artist Book Practices
March 5 – 30, 2018
Application deadline: October 4, 2017
The Evolving Book: Contemporary Artist Book Practices is a program focused on the role of artists’ books in contemporary art practice. Artists’ books (books as art) arose in the 1900s as a format for exploring visual art and text-based practices; as a method of democratizing art distribution, and as a vehicle for sharing conceptual, critical, and political ideas.

ABOUT US
Visual + Digital Arts programs at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity offer opportunities for artists to engage with world-renowned faculty and peers to gain new insights into the development of their work. Access to facilities and expertise in photography, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, ceramics, fibre, painting, digital media, video, and sound, as well as curatorial studies are available. Be the first to know of new program announcements, sign up for our newsletter, follow Banff Centre on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

For more information:
Office of the Registrar
Email: VisualArts_Registrar@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 403.762.6180 or 1.800.565.9989
banffcentre.ca

SPARKBOX STUDIO: Emerging Artist Residency Award 2017– Deadline October 1st    

Beginning your career as an emerging artist can be tough, which is why Spark Box Studio is offering FREE RESIDENCIES to emerging artists. This residency opportunity is a unique way for emerging artists to cultivate new ideas, access a rich library of arts resources, learn about career-building opportunities, and develop an understanding of the art world.

ABOUT THE AWARD
Spark Box Studio a print studio and artist residency that is offering six emerging artists (from anywhere in Canada) a one-week residency at our studio and residency in Prince Edward County. The selected applicants will be given a semi-private studio space, access to the Spark Box Studio equipment and resources, living accommodations, as well as a one-hour consultation with owner Chrissy Poitras regarding their specific arts business questions.

Deadline: October 1, 2017.
Please be advised that the award is for 7 consecutive days.
For more details and to apply visit: http://sparkboxstudio.com/residencyaward/
Spark Box Studio
885 County Rd. 5
Picton, ON
K0K 2T0

Artscape Gibraltar Point Winter Island Artist-In-Residence Program 2018
 

Deadline: 10 October, 2017, 12pm
Program Dates: 2 January – 30 April, 2018
Exhibition: May 20 - June 2, 2018 - Artscape Youngplace
More info: ArtscapeGibraltarPoint.ca
Artscape Gibraltar Point is seeking project proposals from artists working in all media for the Winter Island Artist-In-Residence program for 2018. Now in its third year, Winter Island is a unique, juried artist-in-residence program aimed at emerging, mid-career and established artists, hosted at Artscape Gibraltar Point, an artist residency located on the picturesque Toronto Islands.

Winter Island recognizes four artists annually who have demonstrated a strong and unique artistic voice while working in Canada’s visual arts community and provide them with one month of distraction-free studio time and accommodation to create and/or develop a new and exciting work, or body of work that engages and activates the artist community at Artscape Gibraltar Point and the Toronto Islands.

Selected artists will have the opportunity to present these works/projects to the public as a part of a Winter Island Group Exhibition to take place at the conclusion of the residency series at Artscape Youngplace Hallway Galleries, vitrines and select Flex Studios, in late May/Early June 2018.

4 SELECTED ARTISTS WILL RECEIVE: A complimentary month-long stay at Artscape Gibraltar Point including a private studio and bedroom; ferry tickets (to a maximum of 8 round trips); $100/wk food or materials stipend; promotion of their residency and project via press release; promotion of their residency and project via Artscape’s social media channels; opportunity to participate in the communal life of Artscape Gibraltar Point and engage with participants in our self-directed residency and long-term studio rental programs.

October 10, 2017 – Submission Deadline
November 15, 2017 – Winter Island Artists-In-Residence Announced. All applicants notified
January 2, 2018 – First Winter Island Artist Residency begins
February 5, 2018 – Second Winter Island Artist Residency begins
March 5, 2018 – Third Winter Island Artist Residency begins
April 2, 2018 – Final Winter Island Artist Residency begins
May 20 – June 2, 2018 – Winter Island Artist Residency Exhibition at Artscape Youngplace

HOW TO APPLY
Please apply using our form on Submittable. Should you require assistance with the application process, do not hesitate to contact Andrew Lochhead, Residency & Programming Coordinator, Artscape Gibraltar Point at alochhead@artscape.ca.
For more information including submission criteria and eligibility, please visit http://artscapegibraltarpoint.ca/winter-island-artist-in-residence-program-2018/
 

CENTRE 3 : HAMILTON Print & Media Arts – Deadline November 15th

Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts is an artist-run centre dedicated to promoting print and media arts in contemporary artistic discourse. As a production, exhibition, education and animator of community arts, Centre[3] supports both traditional and experimental print media and media art practices. The centre encourages research and innovation and provides forums for discussion and examination of critical and theoretical issues. Centre[3] supports artists in the development of their professional endeavours and acts as a resource centre for the visual and media arts community.

Continuing our efforts to promote and support art-making practices, Centre[3] is proud to offer its Emerging Artist Residency Program. The program will begin in December 2017 and will conclude in February 2018. Following their residencies, the artists will be showcased in the main exhibition space at Centre[3], from February 23 to April 7, 2018.

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 studios (traditional and digital) for the duration of the residency (within hours of operation).
• 5 hours of free technical assistance.
• A $200 stipend.
• Free technical support.
• 10 images (jpeg, 1MB maximum).
• C.V. (3 pages maximum).
• Letter of intent (let us know what you are planning to do, 500 words maximum).
• Please place all text in one document (doc or PDF), with images separate.

To apply please provide the following information:

• Contact information, name, address, phone, email, website.
• 10 images. (jpeg, 1MB max)
• Artist statement. (500 words max.)
• C.V. (Three pages max)
• 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, 2017

Please email or deliver the application package to:
Residency at Centre[3]
173 James Street North
Hamilton, ONL8R 2K9
programming@centre3.com


Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts
www.centre3.com
173 James St. N
Hamilton, ONL8R 2K0
905.524.5084
 

Akin Collective Artists among 2017 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibitions Award Winners

Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2017 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Awards! Over $40,000 in cash and in-kind awards were presented last week to some very extraordinary artists of the 2017 Exhibition including many Akin Collective studio members and alumni!

Katrina Jurjans of Akin Lansdowne won Best of Painting as well as Best of Student which includes a one-week Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point & One-week Exhibition at Artscape Youngplace.

Kendra Yee of Akin Lansdowne received the Emerging Artist by Emerging Curator Award, an award that creates an opportunity for an emerging curator and four emerging artists to participate in an exhibition at a professional gallery.

Loren Kaplan of Akin Dupont received Honourable Mention for Best of Ceramics.  

Kristy Blackwell of Akin Sunrise received Honourable Mention for Best of Painting. 

Julia Hepburn, a former Akin member also received Honourable mention for Best of 3D Works. 

We are so proud of all of you! 

EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD 2016 / SPARK BOX STUDIO

Beginning your career as an emerging artist can be tough, which is why Spark Box Studio is offering FREE RESIDENCIES to emerging artists. This residency opportunity is a unique way for emerging artists to cultivate new ideas, access a rich library of arts resources, learn about career-building opportunities, and develop an understanding of the art world.

ABOUT THE AWARD:
Every artist wants time to work, research, explore and create.
There is just one issue: Where?

Enter: Spark Box Studio a print studio and artist residency that is offering six emerging artists (from anywhere in Canada) a one-week residency at our studio and residency in Prince Edward County.

The selected applicants will be given a semi-private studio space, access to the Spark Box Studio equipment and resources, living accommodations, as well as a one-hour consultation with owner Chrissy Poitras regarding their specific arts business questions.

Deadline: October 1, 2016.

Please be advised that the award is for 7 consecutive days.

Emerging Artist Award is valued at $480.00 per person.

For more details and to apply visit: http://sparkboxstudio.com/residencyaward/

OCAD U & Akin Collective Career Launcher Winner: Emma Aurelia

The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce that Emma Aurelia, a recent graduate of OCAD University’s Material Art and Design program, is the recipient of the first AKIN Collective Career Launcher! Emma will receive a period of free studio space at AKIN’s inspiring shared workspaces in 2016–2017, valued at $2000, as well as a $500 cash award.

The AKIN Collective Career Launcher is an amazing opportunity for graduating Material Art and Design students to become part of a larger creative community and gain access to the excellent multidisciplinary facilities that AKIN Collective has to offer. Applications were reviewed by AKIN's Directors, faculty members, and staff from the Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers.

Congratulations Emma! Check out some of Emma's work below, or visit her website www.emmaurelia.com

Into the Blue and Back (Again) Full Installation from Emma Aurelia on Vimeo.

Thesis Award Show

About The Show
The Thesis Award Show is a collaboration between ARTiculations, Graven Feather Studio and Akin Collective in support of graduating post secondary students. In early 2016 a call was sent out across the Province for applications in search of students demonstrating a coherent body of work unique in both concept and execution. Overwhelmed by the response, we extend a huge thank you to all of the applicants and congratulate this year's winners, Annunziata Morant & Jennifer Byrnes for their achievements. In addition to solo exhibitions, Morant & Byrnes each received studio credit with Akin Collective as part of the award. 

Annunziata Morant
Forget Me Not
May 2nd-15th
Reception: Thursday May 12th, 7-9pm
Location: Graven Feather, 906 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6J 1G6
 
‘Remember Death’ warns the Latin phrase Memento Mori and so too are we elegantly reminded, by the recent work of artist Annunziata Morant. In Morant’s delicate and haunting series, we are forced to confront our own mortality through the memorialization of others. Functioning as physical, artistic reminders of our own eventual passing in fitting with the latin theory on the reflection of death, the ghostly victorian figures whisper that for us too, clocks will continue to tick. In these intimate, moving digital prints, acrylic seeps and colourfully trickles down the page (lifelines, tear streams perhaps) instigating discussion of personal histories and the transience of our lives. These works are as much mirrors for the viewer as they are windows onto lives already lived. Through an extensive and obsessive research process, Morant’s vast archive of Victorian mourning ephemera from the Victorian serves as an entry point for such contemplation and conversations in a contemporary setting. Nudging and prodding, the artist’s lovingly altered memorials remind us to be mindful- our day will also come.

Morant is a recent graduate of the Ontario College of Art And Design University BFA Program. 
 
Jennifer Byrnes
Negative Forty
May 1st- 15th
Reception: Wednesday May 11th 7-9pm
Location: ARTiculations, 2928 Dundas St West, Toronto, ON, M6P 1Y8
 
Vast and powerful while detailed and delicate, Jennifer Byrnes series of prints’ offer varying perspectives and approaches to landscapes both natural and, perhaps, somewhere beyond. Through the  laborious and historically expansive process of copper plate printmaking, the artist explores and expands upon the relationship between natural and geometric forms and ratio. Ink pools and holds in the sunken areas of Byrnes’ incised lines on the copper to create, curiously and conversely, scenes unbound by the limitations of reality or physical grounding. Mountains float and hover tied through delicate light lines. As worlds are inverted and mirrored in mythical, spiritual visions and scenes.  Like the artist’s process itself, we are reminded about the delicate balance between opposites- lightness and weight. Telling of the artist’s interest in the concept of infinity, perhaps if something is both positive and negative concurrently it simply floats on forever.

Byrnes is a recent graduate of the University of Waterloo BFA Program. 

Artist Talks by both artists will be held at ARTiculations on Sunday, May 15th at 3pm

Thesis Award Winners

Congratulations to Annunziata Morant and Jennifer Byrnes, the recipients of our first annual student Thesis Award, a collaboration between ARTiculations, Graven Feather and AKIN Collective!

Annunziata and Jennifer will both receive two week solo exhibitions in addition to credit for studio. Overwhelmed by the response, we extend a huge thank you to all of the applicants from post secondary institutions across the province and we look forward to seeing you at the opening receptions in May!