RAIR is a non-profit arts organization uniquely situated within a construction and demolition recycling center in Northeast Philadelphia. RAIR’s residency program provides artists on-site access to recovered materials and a studio space to produce work. The RAIR workspace includes a large project space, wood shop equipment, metalworking facilities, access to the waste stream for materials, and a material storage area. Artists in residence receive attentive support from RAIR's staff who act as liaisons between the artist and the recycling facility. In addition to providing artists on-site access to recovered materials, construction equipment, and a fully-equipped studio space, RAIR’s Residency Program offers artists the opportunity to use the entire 3.5-acre facility as an expansive project space for the development and presentation of ambitious experimental work.

Applications for 2020 residencies opened on August 1, 2019 and will close on October 31, 2019 @ 11:59pm. Applicants will be notified by Jan 5, 2020.

Thanks to a generous grant from https://warholfoundation.org/">The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts we are excited to offer stipends to the 2020 artists-in-residence! Each resident will receive an honorarium of $600 and financial assistance for travel and housing. 

This year’s application jury panel — Karen Patterson, Oscar Rene Cornejo and Ester Partegàs — will be selecting the 2020 artists-in-residence and providing studio visits to those artists to provide critical peer feedback. 

We are also excited to extend the https://www.rairphilly.org/karyn-olivier">Warhol Fellowship Residency program into 2020. The fellowship is a fully funded residency awarded, outside of the open call, to one artist per year. Fellows are given project management and logistics assistance from the RAIR staff and they are able to customize the structure of their residency throughout the year. The Fellowship Residency offers artists a more intensive experience to assist in the development of new work. This year, Philadelphia sculptor Karyn Olivier, was selected as the 2020 Fellow in the RAIR Fellowship Residency program. 

For more information about RAIR and its residencies please visit https://www.rairphilly.org/for-applicants">https://www.rairphilly.org/for-applicants