Call for applications: Art residency in the US

SFAI offers individuals, families and collaborations residencies from a minimum of one month to a maximum of three months. 

The residency seeks to support thought-provoking conversations and inspire action around social justice. It also thrives to promote cultural freedom, and environmental responsibility in a safe and supportive space, where the sharing of diverse experiences and approaches is celebrated.

“Throughout our 2021 programmatic theme, Revolution, SFAI will support research, artworks, and creative actions that use artistic imagination to provide sites of resistance, instances of engagement, and solidarity with transformational movements,” SFAI says.

“We seek proposals that aim to revolutionise the status quo and which are bolstered by creative insurrection, utopian imagination, and an expansive agency wherein everyone – across a range of ethnicities, nationalities, gender identities, and abilities – has the power to shape reality.”

The residency months are as follows:

• 4 – 29 January
• 1 – 26 February
• 1– 26 March
• 26 April – 21 May
• 24 May – 18 June 
• 28 June – 23 July
• 30 August – 24 September 
• 27 September – 22 October
• 25 October – 19 November 

Eligibility

SFAI accepts applications from local, national, and international applicants aged 25 years and above, marginalised and underrepresented artists, including artists of colour, disabled, LGBTQ+, women, and immigrant artists.

Interested individuals are required to pay an application fee of $35. 

Requirements

• 10 digital work samples (which may be any combination of still images, video, audio and writing).
• Project proposal (describing the materials and methods of your work and how you would use them to engage the annual theme during a residency at SFAI).
• Biography (max 250 words preferably written in the third person).
• Two-paged resume (highlighting education, work experience, awards, and exhibition history).
• Two professional references (who are familiar with you and your work).

Interested individual can apply here. The application deadline is 1 April. 

SFAI executive director Jamie Blosser told Music In Africa that the organisation was carefully monitoring the COVID-19 virus, and would modify procedures and protocols accordingly.

"We are continuing our operations with staff working from home. We have cancelled all in-person meetings and public events and will continue to monitor the situation to determine the appropriateness of future events," he said.

"We have cancelled the May Labor residency and notified the May residents. We will continue to monitor the situation to determine whether future residency months will need to be cancelled. Calls for applications for the 2020 Story Maps Fellowship and 2021 Revolution Residency Programme remain open. We encourage all artists and creative practitioners to apply."

View the original call here.