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2020 CAMP SESSION : JULY 25TH - AUGUST 8TH

To Apply:

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  1. Submit a 2020 Residency Application (below)

  2. Send 10 JPEG images and a corresponding Image List in a single email with the subject "2020 Hot Potato" to visitor.center.artists@gmail.com

  3. We will review your application and notify you within one week, confirming your registration based on appropriate fit of your proposed project, and workshop space availability.

    Applications are reviewed in the order received, until all spaces are filled. We have space for 12 residents in 2020.

  4. Pay a $300 deposit to reserve your spot. Pay in full by July 1st, 2020.

    ** Sign Up by June 1st for a $100 Discount! **

IMAGE FORMATTING:

Your 10 images help us get to know you and your interests, and will be used in what we call a “Hot Potato” slide show as a quick introduction to you and your work. These photos can reflect your practice with any combination of artwork, performance, ecological study, collaborative construction, community involvement, or DIY investigations.

  • Image file names should be labeled: LastnameFirstname01, 02, 03, and so on.

  • Images should not exceed 1 MB max each.

  • For time-based work please include links in your Image List, or send short clips if full piece is longer than a few minutes. Limit the total duration of all time-based submissions to 10 minutes maximum.

Contact Amy at visitor.center.artists@gmail.com if you have any questions

COVID-19 Safety Considerations:

* This small-group artist residency allows for social distancing without social isolation. Bring your own tent for camping, eat your carefully-prepared meals in our fresh-air outdoor pavilion, work outside in the wilderness, and kick the studio barn doors open!

* $100 Early Bird Discount: Deadline EXTENDED - Apply by JUNE 1st, 2020 for this discount.

* If you have any symptoms and/or are unable to attend the residency due to COVID-19 health issues, we will refund your payments, less transaction fees of 5%, up until one week before the residency begins. Between one week before the residency begins and the start date of the residency, we will refund 50% of your payment.

Residency Fees

Your Residency Fees Cover: Three meals a day, access to camping grounds, water, solar-shower, composting outhouses, various indoor and outdoor work spaces, special presentations and discussions, field trips to swim, hike, and visit areas of cultural interest, and participation in a one-day art festival and public clay workshop. See Accommodations for more details.

Local Clay Workshop Residency Fee: $950 Includes instruction, demos, and 1-on-1 project guidance for harvesting and creating with the local clay, includes a variety of glazes, harvested local clay and clay body additives, firings in electric, gas, and wood barrel kilns. Includes local transportation, workspace in the Studio Barn, electricity, and use of shop tools and basic supplies. See Local Clay Workshop Details Here

Woodcrafts Workshop Residency Fee:  $950 Includes a variety of opportunities to work with and learn from local folk artists, craftspeople, and builders. Mill your own rough-cut lumber on a Mac truck sawmill, and learn the basics of traditional timber-framing from lifetime logger and master builder builder Mel Seeger. Learn the basics of wood turning on a lathe with craftsman Dick Graham, or take a rustic furniture making workshop with woodworker Slim Greene. Includes materials for wood turning and furniture making, local transportation, workspace in the Studio Barn, electricity, and use of shop tools and basic supplies. See Woodcrafts Workshop Details Here

Independent Project Residency Fee: $800 Includes shared work space in the Studio Barn and upstairs in the Bird’s Nest Lounge, use of electricity, shop tools and basic supplies, local transportation, miles of hiking trails through the forest, access to a variety of spaces for installation art and land art, and various quiet writing, reading, drawing, and meditation spaces including in the Porcupine Palace (a comfortably refurbished hunting blind), the Oak Tree Theater (a stage in the woods), and the Aspen Chapel (a gorgeous grove of Aspens with benches to sit on). See Independent Project Details Here