Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY - Residency Application Deadline: March 1, 2010

Location: Catskill Mountains, one-and-a-half miles from the center of Woodstock, New York. Founded as an Arts & Crafts community in 1903, it has been a haven for visual artists, writers, crafts people, musicians and theater artists for more than a century.

Goal: to provide solitude in community and undisturbed time in which to concentrate on independent, creative work in company of follow artists. Professional recognition is helpful for admission, but is not essential.

Residency programs:

- one-month Artists-in-Residence (AIR) residencies in summer to writers, visual artists and composers
- Ceramics Residencies for one to five months, May through October.

2010 dates:

Session I: June 1-June 27, 2010
Session II: June 29-July 25, 2010
Session III: July 27- August 22, 2010
Session IV: August 24-September 19, 2010

Fellowships:

The Bernard & Shirley Handel Playwright Fellowship

Established in 2007, encourages the creative development of playwrights by enabling them to set aside time to pursue their work in an unstructured atmosphere at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, NY. The Fellowship annually provides a $500 stipend that includes tuition to the Summer Byrdcliffe Artist In Resident Program at the Villetta Inn. Playwrights, please indicate on application whether or not you'd like to be considered for the Handel Fellowship! Please note that this fellowship is for US citizens and citizens of US Territories only.

Byrdcliffe Master

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has generously funded for a fourth year, a program for the Byrdcliffe Artists In Residence Program (AIR). All visual artists applying to the AIR program are eligible. Five will be selected by the jury for a 4-week FREE residency, plus a $1,100 stipend. This year the Byrdcliffe Master is Joan Snyder. Each Fellow will have accessto Joan for critiques, career opportunity discussions and to share insight and guidance during a 4-week residency.

Deadline: March 01, 2010
Application fee: $35
For more details and an application: www.woodstockguild.org or (845) 679-2079