CALL FOR ENTRIES: Semester-long artist residency at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

An almost four-month artist residency (August 18th through December 12th) invites a professional artist working primarily with hot glass to work on campus and use the studio for the entire Fall 2014 semester. The Artist in Residence program is designed to "promote a vibrant creative environment in the SIU Glass program." During the Residency the artist will focus on his or her own projects and are invited to all aspects of academic activities in the program including reviews, critiques, demonstrations, collaborations, and working side by side with students in the glass studio. The Artist in Residence will have an exhibition on the SIU campus with the outcome of the residency toward the end of the term.

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The glass program provides personal studio space and access to all glass facilities for the artist's creative research. The glass studio facilities at SIU include a hot glass studio, a variety of kilns, and a cold working studio. The SIU Fine Arts Activity Fee, Visiting Artist Program of School of Art and Design, and Southern Glass Works sponsor the Artist in Residence program in Glass. Funding for the residency includes a partial housing allotment and a stipend for the artist. (The artist will need to rent a local apartment during the residency. The residency housing will be supported up to $3,000 for the semester; the artist will be responsible for any costs exceeding this amount during the residency. The artist will also receive a stipend of approximately $1,500 for the residency)

International artists are welcome to apply for this opportunity. All application materials must be submitted on CD. The application documentation should be doc, docx, or pdf file.

Applications must include the following:

C.V. or resume (must include your full contact information, education, current position)
Residency project proposal
15 digital images of your work with image descriptions. All images should be saved as jpeg files at under 100dpi for review; each image should be no larger than 1MB. Submit a separate image description sheet or save the description as file name of the image
Three letters of recommendation 
The application deadline is February 28, 2014.

Please mail your application to: