Applications are open for an Artist Residency program at the a couple of post-secondary facilities for the upcoming 2016-2017 season.
The deadline for applications is May 1. There are three Artist in Residence options available.
At the Hill and Levene Schools of Business Residency, there is a call for proposals offers an right-month artist residency. The ideally residence will span the Fall and Winter semesters (September 2016 to April 2017). Its aim is to highlight the creative ways that artists work, explore and discover the opportunities that their environment provides. In this instance, the Hill and Levene Schools of Business are opening their doors to an artist I innovator I creative researcher.
At the Faculty of Social Work Artist Residency, the proposal offers artist residency for one or two semesters. This residents will address inclusive arts-based practice through a critical disability, critical race and feminist lenses that challenges the current discourse on ability, normative assumptions, and mainstream notions of inclusivity and cultural representation.
At the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance (MAP) Residency, they are looking artist residency spanning one or two semesters. The artist will work should involve socially engaged practices in any form suitable to the proposed program of work.
In 2015, the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina established an artist residency program in memory of Michele Sereda, an alumna and multidisciplinary artist who explored social issues that touched on intercultural dialogue, marginalized communities and art making.
The residency aims to create engagements between artists, organizations, other University of Regina faculties and students around socially relevant issues.
A modest stipend for supplies will be offered for the period of the residency for all the above application programs. Shared studio space can be made available in the Faculty of Media, Arts, and Performance. Help with accommodation may be available if the artist is from outside the province.
Artists in Residence can also access the Archer Library, as well as to MAP Faculty equipment, studios and spaces when available.
