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An artist residency is an opportunity provided by a host organisation that enables a guest artist to work in a new environment, often away from the restrictions and pressures of their everyday lives. Artist residencies are about providing the time and space for a guest artist to develop work and creatively explore new ideas. [2]
MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire The program was founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell . Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell Colony or "The Colony", but its board of directors shortened the name to remove "terminology with ...
Res Artis is the peak member organisation for the international arts residencies field comprising more than 700 vetted members in over 85 countries. [1] [2] Founded in 1993, it operates a website and the largest existing network of artist residency programs. [3]
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is a residential artist community in Amherst, Virginia, USA.Since 1971, VCCA has offered residencies of varying lengths with flexible scheduling for international artists, writers, and composers at its working retreat in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
Through artists’ residencies and public programs, Headlands offers opportunities for artist research, dialogue and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. Headlands Center for the Arts was conceived through a planning process conducted by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area after the transfer of ...
Residency Unlimited is an international artist's residency program [1] in New York City, located within the former South Congregational Church in Carroll Gardens, in Brooklyn, New York. [2] In addition to artist-in-residence programs, Residency Unlimited also hosts temporary exhibitions and commissions and public programs [ 3 ] which are free ...
Ragdale is the former summer retreat of Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, located in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.It is also the home of the Ragdale Foundation, an artist residency program that hosts creators from a number of disciplines: nonfiction and fiction writers, composers, poets, play- and screenwriters, visual artists, choreographers, as well as those from ...
Copland had been a resident of the artist's residency eight times between 1925 and 1956, and served as MacDowell's president from 1962 to 1968. [6] Painter Georgia O'Keeffe received the award in 1972. O'Keeffe, who was then 84 years old, decided not to attend, and asked art historian Lloyd Goodrich to accept the award on her behalf. Goodrich ...