The Residency Fee varies by length of stay.
HOME STAY with host family accommodations and workspace; three meals daily, Monday - Friday, included:
HOLISTIC WELLNESS CENTER accommodations and workspace; meals prepared by a nutritionist and delivered on demand at local prices, (pay-as-you-go; not included in Residency Fee):
Not covered by the residency fee: International airfare, taxi fares for arrival and departure, travel insurance, or costs related to optional cultural outings and trips.
Online application. $35 application fee is refunded if the application for residency is declined, and deducted from the residency fee if application for residency is approved.
Intercultural ODYSSEYS Costa Rica is a civic, social and non-governmental organization (NGO) founded by Royce Clay Slape Seiger, himself a lifelong artist, in the belief that creating and sharing art across borders is a powerful tool for opening up human hearts and challenging the barriers that separate them. They have proudly hosted artists from as far abroad as Newfoundland, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Germany, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, U.S.A. and England (including from the remote island of Guernsey, of the English Channel islands) - and growing. Though Spanish is the local language, English is spoken widely, and they've hosted artists who spoke neither. Those are the kinds of challenges the organizers love. So if you can imagine your project and have the professional skills to make it happen during your residency, they do everything possible to provide you with the uninterrupted time, space and inspiration you need.
All visual artists who wish are offered exhibition space in the partnering Holistic Wellness Center. Open to the public with an artist's reception, should they choose. Many have exhibited at the local Regional Museum and the National Gallery in the capital. On a weekly basis all artists are provided the opportunity to share their work. Always optional.
Artists choose from two outstanding options: A full cultural immersion experience in a home stay with a carefully selected host family, most meals included, or in the Holistic Wellness Center which offers better control of diet and more ample indoor works spaces.
Host families are carefully selected for the indoor studio spaces they can offer artists who choose the Home Stay option, and the Holistic Wellness Center provides spacious, open-air indoor work spaces which may be better suited to artists requiring more formal indoor work spaces.
When necessary certain requirements can be provided apart from the home stay, such as a formal studio for visual artists, or access to a piano at one of the local music schools, for composers: such requests must be made during the application process.
ODYSSEYS Costa Rica is based in San Ramón, Alajuela known as the "city of poets" and home to the hillsides of Las Musas (The Muses):
Average temperatures run in the mid-70sF (25 degrees C) year-round.
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