Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre AiR Call for Submissions Spring/Summer 2025

Closing Date of Opportunity: March 30, 2025

Name or Organization: Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre

Contact Email: community@koartscentre.org

Website: http://www.koartscentre.org/

Post Content: Applications Open: February 1, 2025
Application Deadline: March 30, 2025

We at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre are excited to announce we have opened our call-for-submissions for our Artist in Residence program for Summer 2025. Our Spring/Summer Session will take place over a period throughout May 1 and October 31. Notifications will be sent out by the end of April, 2025.

Objectives:

This program recognizes that physical spaces, time and the financial resources needed to create art are scarce, and these limitations constrain artists, preventing their work from reaching its full agentive potential. Our artists come seeking personal artistic growth and are surrounded by the inspirational works of their peers in the beautiful natural setting of our twenty-acre outdoor sculpture park in nature near Calgary, with stunning views of the Rocky Mountains.

A diverse range of artists each year can move their practice forward in a dedicated studio space for new exploration, inspiration, ideation, and creation. Our Artist in Residence program cultivates a research and process-focused experience, facilitating artist work that otherwise may not have been realized. Artists in Residence will work in a spacious, functional studio space, having opportunities to create, exhibit and document new works. Public engagement is a requirement of this residency, and artists applying will be expected to provide a plan for public engagement with their application.

Duration and requirements:

KOAC’s Artist in Residence Program provides artists at all levels access to studio space within our 20 acre art centre for research, art production, experimentation. The program length is flexible and is designed through close conversation with each resident artist, and generally lasts 4-12 weeks, depending on the artist’s availability. Resident artists are required and supported to share their art with the public and engage with the local community through artist talks, workshops, and other public events, and to connect with KOAC’s decades long community of art supporters.

We strongly encourage equity deserving artists, including women, Indigenous, Black, racialized artists, and LGBTQIA2S+ artists to apply. Diversity is a crucial selection factor, both in terms of artists’ identities and backgrounds and the mediums and styles of their work.

For more information and to apply please visit: https://www.koartscentre.org/artist-in-residence-program/

To attend a Q&A on February 12 from 6:00-7:00PM with previous AiR, Kristine Zingeler, as well as our Community Partnerships Coordinator, Shelby Charlesworth, please register via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1238164245589?aff=oddtdtcreator