Midcareer Artist Fellowship
Location: MN — East Central (Hinckley)
Type: Residency
Categories:
Visual Arts
Deadline: 06/08/2025
No entry fee required
Open to artists nationally
Paid opportunity ($10,000)
One Midcareer Artist Fellowship will be awarded in summer 2025. This artist will be expected to live on-site for approximately 8-10 weeks during late June-September. This amount of time is intended to give the artist opportunities to explore the vibrant region, feel connections to the land and communities Franconia touches, and complete an outdoor sculpture that will endure at least two planetary revolutions around the sun. The artist will receive a $10,000 award from Franconia Sculpture Park and may request additional support as needed.
Midcareer artist-applicants should demonstrate experience in public art and audience engagement, and share in their application how the Fellowship at Franconia will assist them in taking new steps in their career journey. The Midcareer artist will be featured in the September 20 Symposium (attendance required, format to be determined) with the expectation that their sculpture is completed by that time.
– $10,000 award
– 8–10 week on-site residency (late June–Sept)
– Sculpture for long-term display
– Symposium participation required (Sept 20)
– 1 Opportunity awarded
Because of the leadership and work of Dakota and Ojibwe artists at Franconia in 2025, this Symposium will center on “Two-Eyed Sight” – seeing through the strengths of both indigenous and western ways of knowing for the betterment of all. Two-Eyed Seeing was introduced by Mi’kmaq Elders Albert D. Marshall and Murdena Marshall from Eskasoni First Nation, in Nova Scotia. This theme is central to the exhibition on display this year in Franconia’s Mardag Gallery, featuring Artist-Astronomer-Activist Annette S. Lee. Founder of Native Skywatchers and a leader internationally in both Astronomical and Artistic communities, Annette came to use this metaphor by looking at the stars through both Indigenous and Western lenses. While this theme serves to guide the park’s tens of thousands of annual visitors, it also helps elevate the multiple perspectives artists and audiences hold today.