Summer Arts BIPOC Residency
Arts at Alfred University’s BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Artist-in-Residence program provides artists with opportunities to dive deeply into their artistic research and practice, and creative endeavors. The goal of the residency is to provide a cross-cultural destination at Alfred University for early-career BIPOC artists to enhance social/racial justice or combat structures of white supremacy. This will serve artists who have been historically underserved and remove systematic barriers.
Arts at Alfred University’s BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Artist-in-Residence program provides artists with opportunities to dive deeply into their artistic research and practice, and creative endeavors. The goal of the residency is to provide a cross-cultural destination at Alfred University for early-career BIPOC artists to enhance social/racial justice or combat structures of white supremacy. This will serve artists who have been historically underserved and remove systematic barriers.
Artists who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or People of Color. We encourage artists who are practicing non-conventional, interdisciplinary art genres at the intersection of arts and racial/social justice. Artists will stay in the residency at least 4 days of a given week during the residency program.
May 16-June 11 or July 18-August 13, 2022. Each residency lasts a minimum of 2 weeks and up to 4 weeks. Artists will be supported with up to $2000 to cover travel, meals. or supplies. Include housing in a fully furnished 1 bedroom, 2nd floor apartment at the Cohen Center for the Arts on Main Street in Alfred, NY. Full kitchen, linens and laundry on site. Spouses, partners, collaborators are welcomed (guests need to be 18 years of age or older). Studio Space in 3300sq ft (2nd floor) or 2900sq ft (1st floor) studio space at the Cohen Center for the Arts on Main Street, or performing arts spaces at the Miller Performing Arts Center (including dance studio, practice rooms, costume shop, and theatre spaces) as appropriate to the applicants’ practice. Access to other studios on the Alfred University campus will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Residents will also have an opportunity to exhibit or present in one of the galleries or performance spaces at Alfred University following residency.
Apply by March 1, 2022. CV (up to 3 pages), portfolio of 10 images, project proposal during the residency program (400 words), and personal/artist statement (400 words). All applicants will be notified by April 1st, 2022.