Language:
English, Spanish
Founded:
2007
Duration:
2 weeks to 6 months; average of 6 weeks
Paid by artist:

The Residency Fee varies by length of stay.

HOME STAY with host family accommodations and workspace; three meals daily, Monday - Friday, included:

  • Individual artist: Up to one full month counted as 28 nights: $1,248; Up to twenty-one nights: $995.
  • Artist Couple (two artists or artist with non-artist companion, sharing a bedroom): Up to one full month counted as 28 nights: $1,872; Up to twenty-one nights: $1,492.

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):

  • Individual artist: Up to one full month counted as 28 nights: $1,548; Up to twenty-one nights: $1,234.
  • Artist Couple (two artists or artist with non-artist companion, sharing a bedroom): Up to one full month counted as 28 nights: $2,985; Up to twenty-one nights: $2,265.

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.

Application guidelines:

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.

Deadline:
Ongoing
AIR tags:
national, international, shared, kitchen, Private initiative, private, own contribution by residents, other, internet, basic tools and equipment, starter, mid-career, established artist, more than 10 residents, 1 to 3 months
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Odysseys Costa Rica

Odysseys Costa Rica

Description

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.

Outcome

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.

Studio Information

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.

Accommodation Information

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.

Technical Information

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.

Location

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):

  • only 1-1/2 hours from Arenal Volcano and Mineral Hot Springs
  • 1 hour northwest of the numerous art galleries and museums of the capital city of San José
  • and a quick 45 minutes from the lovely beach of Puntarenas with its Ferry launching dock to other exotic beaches.

Average temperatures run in the mid-70sF (25 degrees C) year-round.

Contact information

APDO 10578-1000
San José
Costa Rica

Email
odysseyscostarica [at] gmail.com
Website
http://www.artistresidencycostarica.org/