UCLA Art Student and Alumni Opportunities

Taleamor Park offers self-directed residencies for artists and writers in all media who seek a restorative and productive countryside interlude of two weeks or more. Located near Lake Michigan 60 miles east of Chicago, Taleamor Park affords trails, woods, pollinator habitats, and ponds within a working grain and farm.

2023 LAB MFA
Summer Residency | Commissioned Project for current MFA students
Eligibility: Artists currently enrolled in MFA studio art programs in the U.S. during spring 2023 Residency opportunity: June 20-July 21, 2023
Deadline: Sunday, April 30th, midnight EST
This year’s residency and exhibition opportunity focuses on art and social practice offering current MFA students across disciplines the time, space and resources to be in residence for up to 4 weeks as part of the ongoing R+D Mobile Studio series. The goal of the residency is to allow for experimentation that creates a jumping off point for staging performances, convenings, artist activations, or happenings working with the available spaces in our new home. This is not a dedicated exhibition installation commission, but an adaptable and responsive multi-layered project responding to the new facility and neighborhood.
Proposals should reflect an expansion of an artist’s practice in conceptual scope, scale, or media. Proposals can reflect new work that will be created during the residency that has never been presented before. Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate exceptionally unique methods, processes, or concepts, particularly those that could not be presented in a traditional gallery setting. Please review the past R&D Mobile Studios projects to get an understanding of this program. Artists can apply as individuals or two-person collaboratives presenting a singular project. Special consideration will be given to artists who are presenting work that is directly related to their MFA studies. All artists must be currently enrolled in an MFA program during the spring of 2023 to apply for the LAB MFA program.
Locust Projects provides an artist stipend of $1,500, production budget up to $1,750 Production Costs may include (but are not limited to): production/fabrication, equipment rental, materials, specialized lighting, technical support, public programs and activations and related participant fees based upon W.A.G.E. fee calculations, artist travel above and beyond the provided stipend, shipping, disposal, and any other costs required to realize and de-install the project beyond basic infrastructure and artist fees provided by Locust Projects. Selected artists are also eligible for a $500 stipend towards travel costs to and from Miami (for artists from outside of the area), and free accommodations for approximately 4 weeks located near Locust Projects.
As part of production budget, selected artists will commit to the creation of public programming which consists of conversations, performances, collaboration or other program presented in conjunction with their project and residency paying collaborators for their time based upon W.A.G.E. standards. Cross-disciplinary collaborations with other Miami-based organizations or individuals is encouraged. The residency will occur in conjunction with the summer cohort of Locust Art Builders, an art immersive for up to 30 Miami-based teens that takes place in the Main Gallery simultaneous with LAB MFA.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit the following information through locustprojects.submittable.com

1. Artist resume or CV. Please include artist contact information.
2. Project proposal (250 word max.)
3. Artist Statement – (max. 150 words) ; can also be a 1 minute video
4. Images: 4-8 images of recent/ related work with captions accompanying all images
5. Letter of recommendation from a current professor
   Please send questions to submissions@locustprojects.org.
   https://locustprojects.org/for-artists/submissions/lab-mfa.html
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ABOUT LOCUST PROJECTS
Locust Projects is a Miami-based not-for-profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Local, national and international artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work. Locust Projects supports the local community through educational initiatives and programming that are free to the public.

APPLICATIONS – Deadline: April 16, 2023 at 11:59PM ET

Opportunity Description

Locust Projects, Miami’s longest-running alternative art space, invites graduate-level artists to submit project proposals for the LAB MFA: R+D Mobile Studio program. With a milestone move to a new home, Locust Projects is revisioning LAB MFA in 2023.

OPEN CALL INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY – NOW OPEN: https://the-arthouse.org.uk/news/international-residency-open-call-2023/ (NO ENTRY FEE REQUIRED)

The Royal Over-Seas League International Residency in partnership with The Art House, Wakefield in the UK

Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) and The Art House (TAH) are delighted to announce the return of this incredible UK-based residency opportunity in 2023, for artists living and working in a commonwealth (or former commonwealth) country, the US, EU and EEA countries or Switzerland who have not yet exhibited or worked in the UK.

The UCSF Library Archives and Special Collections and Makers Lab are accepting proposals for the fourth annual UCSF Library Artist in Residence program. The Artist in Residence award, valued at $8,000, is given annually to one candidate with either a degree in studio arts or a related field and/or a history of exhibiting artistic work in professional venues. The deadline to apply is Sunday, March 26, 2023.

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts awards a seven-month-long residency to emerging visual artists and writers.