CALL FOR CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS

Open residency period in autumn 2011, application deadline 31 July!

The Fiskars Village Artist in Residence offers a 3 month residency period from 1 October to 31 December 2011 (1.10.-31.12.2011). The residency includes an apartment housing 1-2 persons and a heated work space with running water in the basement. A monthly maintainance fee of 100 euros is required from the visiting artist, due to be payed in advance. Send your application by email including:

- A very short (max 10 sentences) description on your motivation or project plan in Fiskars Village

- Your web site address or 5 work samples in form of jpg, pdf, mp3 or mp4 format (max 10MB in total) 

- Your CV (if not included on web site)

Please send your complete application by email no later than Sunday 31 July 2011 to:

applications@fiskarsair.fi

We will notify selected applicant by August 14th.

Residencies 2012, application deadline 15 September

Artists/professionals are selected once a year on the basis of applications. The selection is made by an appointed work group consisting of 3-6 professionals within the creative bransches. At selection, special attention is given to the applicants professional level and on the adequacy of the work in Fiskars Village. For the stipends, collaborative or Fiskars oriented work are prioritized.

The next application deadline will be on September 15th 2011 (00:00 EET) for residency periods during 2012. To apply, please check our application instructions on our web site:

www.fiskarsair.fi

Artists do not pay any rent for the residence apartment with work space. However, a monthly maintainance fee is required from all artists for the complete period of residence. The fee covers maintainence and hosting costs. The fee should be payed at least two (2) months prior to the first day of the offered and confirmed residence period. If the maintainance fee is not transfered to the cooperative´s bank account in time, the residence period will be cancelled. Artists must finance their own travel to/from the village, her/his own food and other daily requirements, including working materials. It is our wish that the visitor donates an art piece or product to the AiR collection at the end of his/her residency. The selected stipend artist for January-March does not have to pay any maintanance fee.

We offer 14 residency periods with lengths ranging from 3 months in the winter season to 1 month in the summer.

1 January - 31 March (design project stipend 600e)

1 April - 31 May (2 months, 300e)

1 June - 30 June (1 month, 300e)

1 July - 31 July (1 month, 300e)

1 August - 31 August (1 month, 300e)

1 September - 31 October (2 months, 300e)

1 November- 31 December (2 months, 300e)