Nesbitt Artist Residency - Housing, Studio & Stipend

International Deadline: June 1, 2015 – The Nesbitt Artist Residency Program in partnership with Bucknell University Department of Art and Art History as well as the Samek Art Museum provides time, space, and exhibition opportunity to visual artists working in any media.

The Nesbitt Artist Residency consists of housing accommodations, meals, a $3,000 stipend, and exclusive use of a studio for four weeks. The residency excludes transportation costs. The Nesbitt Fellow is selected from an open call with the one-month residency resulting in a public exhibition at the Samek Connections Gallery. The Nesbitt Fellow is selected by our admissions panel, which is comprised of a revolving group of distinguished professionals in visual arts.

ELIGIBILITY
The Nesbitt Residency Program accepts applications from artists who have been working in visual arts professionally for at least five years. The artists are judged primarily on the quality of their work, but also on the potential of their practice to translate into a new body of work that engages multi-disciplinary approach to art making. The Nesbitt Residency Program encourages applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics. Applicants who are in a degree program as of the date of application are ineligible for a residency and therefore cannot apply. The applicants must be willing to open their studios to public and Bucknell art students for a group visit once a week for no more than two hours.

The Nesbitt Residency Program is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race, sex, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.

Residency Period: March 21 – April 21, 2016
Application Deadline: June 1, 2015

APPLY ONLINE
What will be included for the online Application:

1. Provide a web address for 10-20 items of Images (up to 5MB each), Video (up to 250MB each) or Audio (up to 30MB each)
2. Artist statement
3. Resume
4. Proposal, not exceeding 3 pages, about what will be accomplished during the residency
5. Contact information for 3 references who are familiar with you and your work and can speak to your ability to live within a close community of artists.

Directions for submitting images, video or audio:

If you currently have a website that contains images, video or audio, please include a web address in web link field on online application.

*** Important: If you do not have a web address for images, video or audio, please indicate no web link in field web address. An online link to File Locker will be sent to your email account the next business day after completing the online Qualtrics form. Multiple files will need to be compressed into one zip file before uploading. Please name the zip file as “lastname-firstname.zip”.

Visit Bucknell University online Prospectus to Apply (see bottom of webpage)

Bucknell University
Department of Art & Art History
701 Moore Ave
Lewisburg, PA 17837