2025 Cellar Press Artist-in-Residence Program
Location: MN — Prairie Lakes (Waseca / Mankato)
Type: Residency
Categories:
Visual Arts
Deadline: 11/15/2024
No entry fee required
Open to artists statewide
Paid opportunity ($300 per week plus free lodging and materials stipend)
The Grand Center for Arts & Culture (GCAC) is a nonprofit community hub for arts and cultural experiences housed in the former Grand Hotel building in New Ulm, Minnesota. Our mission is “to enrich community life through arts and cultural education and experiences; and support local artists by offering them opportunities to develop and demonstrate their artistry.”
GCAC is pleased to announce the fourth year of our artist residency program for Minnesota residents, running for the 2025 calendar year. We are inviting early to mid-career guest artists to apply for a 2-3 week residency with the opportunity to use our Cellar Press studios — letterpress, printmaking, and bookbinding — to create works of art or as an integral part of their artistic practice. Benefits will include:
• Materials Stipend
• Grand Membership: a $100 value. Includes all-hours access to GCAC’s letterpress studio (Cellar Press)
• Free lodging at The Grand Apartment (food not included)
• Stipend of $300 per week paid to individual artists
• Storage space for supplies and consumables
• Participation in the Artist Residency Gallery Show held biannually
• Profiles in GCAC print and online communications
In order to apply, the following materials must be submitted via email to cellarpress@thegrandnewulm.org by 5 PM on Friday November 15th, 2024. Applicants must be current Minnesota residents.
• Artist resume (3 page maximum).
• Artist statement (approx. 300 words maximum).
• Project proposal (approx. 500 words maximum). Applicants are required to submit a realistic proposal that demonstrates their vision and how they will utilize GCAC studios and equipment.
• Community component proposal. Applicants are required to describe their ideas for a community outreach component of their proposal which meets the expectations outlined above.
• Four-eight image samples. Applicants are required to submit no more than eight image samples. The maximum file size is 10MB.
• 2025 Availability.