2012 LMCC Swing Space Deadline: July 28, 2011

Swing Space is a project-based residency program that places visual and performing artists and arts groups in space for the development and presentation of new projects.

Swing Space is designed to address short-term space needs for a wide range of projects, and to encourage creative, experimental and collaborative approaches to artistic practice in unconventional spaces.

Visual Arts - Studio Space at Building 110: Residencies will take place in two five-month sessions between March - July 2012 and August - December 2012.

Performing Arts - Rehearsal Space in the Vaults: Residencies will take place in one of four staggered, overlapping six-month sessions between January - June 2012, March - August 2012, May - October 2012, and July - December 2012.

For more information and application procedures: http://www.lmcc.net/

Ramon Acin and Antonio Saura Grants. Deadline: July 25, 2011

Regional Gov't. of Huesca, Spain, announces training, research and production grants for Spanish visual artists:

- Ramon Acin Grant: 15,000 euros for Spain-born or based visual artists - no age limit

- Antonio Saura Grant: 9,000 euros for Huesca-born or based visual artist

Selection results will be communicated prior to Sept. 30, 2011

For more information and application procedure:

http://www.dphuesca.es/index.php/mod.becas/mem.detalle/idmenu.216/idbeca.12/relcategoria.576/chk.556b8d456273f809238cebe6358ad836.html

Gas Natural Fenosa 2011 Grants. Deadline: June 15, 2011

2011 Gas Natural Fenosa Museum of Contemporary Art Grants

Number of Grants: 3

Addressed to: Visual artists born or residing in Galicia, Spain

Age: Artists under the age of 35 (previous to Dec. 31, 2011)

Grant period: Max. 5 months between Oct. 1, 2011 and March 31, 2013.

Financial benefits: 16.000 euros to cover travel, travel insurance, maintenance, tuition, materials, transportation of artwork, etc.

Application Period: May 1 - June 15, 2011

Application requirements: http://www.macuf.es/htdocs/becas_creacion.html

Byrdcliffe Artist in Residency Program, Woodstock, NY. Deadline: March 1, 2011

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, located in Woodstock, New York, offers month-long Artist in Residence (AIR) opportunities for visual artists, composers, playwrights/screenwriters, and writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Longer residencies are available for ceramic artists.

The application deadline is March 1, 2011.

AIR sessions generally occur during the months of June, July, August, and September.

Goal is to provide solitude in a community and uninterrupted time in which to concentrate on creative work alongside fellow artists.

Opened in 1903, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1979 for its architectural and historical significance. It is located in the Catskill Mountains, 1.5 miles from the center of Woodstock, New York.

For more information or to apply, please go to http://www.woodstockguild.org/artist_in_residence/index.html.

Itziar Barrio at ISCP - Tues. Jan. 18, 2011 - 6:30 p.m.

Itziar Barrio will present a selection of recent work as well as work-in-progress. The repetition and extension of icons into Barrio's murals, animations, and drawings exemplifies the relationship that society has with everyday objects as recurring icons, whether those be practical objects embedded in our lives or abstract advertisement media creations. In this way, the artist brings up questions that are not overtly social or political, but that deal with the tendency of the human mind to create iconic and associative characters out of its surroundings and the effects of those associations on society.

Itziar Barrio was born in 1976 in Bilbao, Spain and currently lives and works in New York City. She combines a wide range of media spanning the gamut of drawing, photography, video, animation and installation. Barrio has been featured in solo shows internationally has been the recipient of grants and awards from major foundations and institutions including First Prize Ertibil, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Consulate General of Spain in New York, Basque Government Ministry of Culture and Bizkaia Executive Council, Gure Artea Biennial Prize and the Iberoamerican Videocreation Prize, MUSAC (Leon). Itziar Barrio's Salon is supported by the Consulate General of Spain in New York and the Spain Foreign Cultural Cooperation Agency.

Link to artist's website: http://www.itziarbarrio.com

Image: "The perils of obedience (-1), 2010, on-going, multimedia project

The MacDowell Colony. Summer 2011 Deadline: January 15, 2011

Location: This retreat-style residency was founded in 1907 and is situated on 450 acres in Peterborough, New Hampshire

Application periods:

- Oct. 15, 2010 - January 15, 2011 (Summer 2011: June - Sept. 2011)
- February 15 - April 15, 2011 (Fall 2011; Oct. 2011 - Jan. 2012)
- Sept. 15, 2011 (Winter/Spring 2012: Feb - May 2012)

Residency length: 1 - 8 weeks. Average: 5 weeks

Disciplines

• Visual arts: Book Arts, Ceramics/Clay Arts/Pottery, Drawing, Installation Arts, Heavy Metals/Blacksmithing, Mixed Media, Painting, Paper Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Woodworking
• Media arts: Electronic Arts, Multimedia, Sound Art
• Writing: Fiction, Journalism, Literary nonfiction, Playwriting, Poetry, Screenwriting, Translating
• Performing arts: Choreography/Dance, Composition/Music, Performance Art
• Design: Architecture, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning/Design
• Other: Interdisciplinary Arts, Conceptual Arts, Environmental Arts, Multimedia Arts, New Genres

Studios/special equipment: Digital media, Exhibition / Installation, Film / Digital editing, Heavy metals / Blacksmithing, Music studio (non-recording), Painting, Photography (non-digital), Sculpture, Woodworking, Writing

Housing: private housing (individual apartment/cabin/house). Private bedroom in a sharted housing facility.

For further information and application process: http://www.macdowellcolony.org

Ragdale Residency Program: Deadline January 15, 2011

Residency Experience: Ragdale artists come from all over the country and around the world to Lake Forest, Illinois to create, write, experiment, research, plan, compose, rejuvenate, brainstorm, and work. Residents' uninterrupted time at Ragdale is their own. In this community of unique individuals, Ragdale also offers the possibilities of dialogue and connections with other artists.

Location: Located at the historic summer home of Arts and Crafts architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, Ragdale exists in a peaceful setting adjacent to over 50 acres of prairie. Residents reside in live/work spaces in the Ragdale House, Barnhouse and Friends' studios. Ragdale is located one mile from downtown Lake Forest, and just 30 miles (only one hour by train) from downtown Chicago.

Deadline: January 15, 2011 (for June - mid-September residencies)

Who Should Apply: Ragdale welcomes artists at all stages of their careers and seeks to create a mix of various experience levels in each group of residents. Through a competitive application process, Ragdale offers residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists such as those working in sound, performance, choreography, etc.

For residency program details and application procedures: http://www.ragdale.org/application