Founded:
1993
Language(s):
English
Duration:
1-4 weeks, 1-3 months
2 or 4 weeks

I-Park provides studio space, housing, and chef-prepared dinners four nights a week. This year, I-Park will also be offering $500 travel grants to five non-North American artists.

Residents are responsible for transportation costs, their own art supplies, and alcoholic beverages.

Application guidelines:

Online application. There is a $35 application fee to help defray the cost of the selection panels.

Application deadline:
Specific date
Deadline:
Open call:
no
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I-Park Foundation Artists-in-Residence Program

I-Park Foundation Artists-in-Residence Program

I-Park
Description

I-Park, a 450-acre natural woodland retreat in East Haddam, Connecticut, U.S.A., hosts intimate, multidisciplinary, fully funded residencies to artists from around the world. A multidisciplinary artists-in-residence program, onsite residencies are open to artists and designers working in the visual arts, creative writing, music composition, interdisciplinary practice, moving image, architecture and landscape/garden design. To foster a congenial social setting, all artists arrive and depart at the same time.

Residencies are typically offered from May until November and are 2 or 4 weeks in duration with 6-7 artists populating each session.

Outcome
  • Open Studio
  • Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale: Biennale Exhibition event
  • Composers + Musicians Collaborative Music Residency: Concert Premieres in Connecticut and New York
Accommodation Information

Residents are provided with a private bedroom in a fully renovated 1840s farmhouse, a private studio and chef-prepared dinners four nights a week. Shared amenities include a communal kitchen, a Common Area for group gatherings, a modest library, 25 art/nature trails, wireless internet, a steam sauna out by the pond, a Junk Trail with lots of tantalizing art materials – and a workshop outfitted with tools, materials and equipment. Residencies are self-directed and non-judgmental. You decide what you’re going to work on and when.

Studio Information

Private studios (heated, air conditioned). Painting, sculpture, writers’ studios, shared workshop space and an abundance of tools, materials and equipment, including an electric kiln. Music studio with an acoustic piano, several digital keyboards and peripheral devices and software for recording, sequencing and sound manipulation – and a collection of percussion and obscure instruments.

Technical Information

A variety of power tools and equipment, musical instruments and peripherals, site materials, an electric kiln, wireless internet and library facilities are provided.

Contact information
Email
info [at] i-park.org
Phone
+1 860 873 2468
Website
http://www.i-park.org