Deadline: 15-Oct-22
International Visegrad Fund has launched the Visual Artists Residencies in New York to provide artists with the chance to be inspired in a variety of spectacular artistic settings of Brooklyn.
Every year, four artists get the incredible opportunity to engage with peers and a focus on process and experimentation. The program gives artists complete freedom during their residency, but also provides resources and weekly lectures for guidance and feedback.
The residency program at International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York creates an environment for inspiration, dialogue, and experimentation. It allows four artists (one from each Visegrad country) to experience life and work in a unique community where creativity is applied to the everyday and offers conditions that enrich the creativity. More than 40 artists have come to Brooklyn through the Visegrad residency program since it started in 2011. Some have spent its two months duration reflecting and finding their new wave of inspiration, some inspired others with whom creation of artistic installations was possible to achieve. ISCP is busy center of contemporary art, which offers thinking space and creative place for artists and other creative practitioners.
Aims
- The Fund desires to provide financial support to applicants who are citizens of the Visegrad countries: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (hereinafter “V4”). Except for VARP–US, theresidency project must be implemented in a Visegrad country other than that of the applicant’s citizenship and/or permanent residence.
- The Fund further desires to provide financial support to host institutions in Visegrad countries, as selected by winning VARP proposals. To enable VARP–US projects, the Fund also covers the costs of this non-V4 host institution.
- VARPapplicant shall receive financial support for no more than one residency project within one calendar year. Successful applicants can later re-apply for any category of VARP, however, each applicant can hold their residency only once in each V4 country. Applicants need to have all their previous VARP and scholarshipprojects finished and closed when re-applying.
Benefits
- The amount of support for each artist is €6,000 to cover accommodation, travel costs, subsistence during the stay, as well as the purchasing of materials necessary for the respective artistic activity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants are visual artists from V4 countries, only a single artist per V4 country annually.
- Good knowledge of English both spoken and written.
- Applicants have not received art scholarships in New York in the past (preference).
- The residency period is 2 months, July 1 to August 31.
For more information, visit https://www.visegradfund.org/apply/mobilities/residencies-in-new-york/?c=how-to-apply
