Residencies
GUIDELINES FOR ONLINE APPLICATIONS
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SUPPORT MATERIALS
Before submitting your application, download the support materials guidelines and follow the directions specific to your discipline to help prepare files.
OVERVIEW
The Studios of Key West offers up to forty juried residencies per year to working artists and writers from around the world. Residencies are awarded to visual artists, writers, composers, performers, and interdisciplinary artists.
Up to four residents at any given time can be hosted at TSKW’s residency cottages (known as The Ashe Street Cottages and The Mango Tree House).
Three of the four residency living spaces available have a small working studio space attached which is appropriate for writing and/or non-industrial art making. Residencies are available for one month, and residency terms extend from the beginning to end of each calendar month. Residents may arrive any day after the first of the month.
Artists are responsible for food, travel, and materials. Artists are granted access to a bicycle for the duration of their stay and are matched with a community member who serves as a host to assist with the success of their residency.
Artists collaborating on a project must submit individual application forms and work samples. Those proposing collaborative work should also submit an example of jointly produced work (either completed or a work-in-progress).
Couples working on collaborative projects may apply as collaborators. Couples working on their own creative projects may apply individually and request parallel residencies.
TSKW residencies have a no overnight guest policy (this includes spouses, partners and children and friends) and a no pet policy.
EXPECTATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
“Giving the Gift of Key West to Artists and Giving the Gift of Artists to Key West”
The TSKW residency program is built upon the expectation that residency artists contribute to the Key West community in some way. In this spirit, artists are required to submit a proposal for a program as part of their application process.
Resident artists are requested to give service to the Key West community in the form of a class, workshop, reading, performance or special project to be agreed upon by the artist and TSKW. These are given in exchange for their residency. The acceptance of a program depends on many factors, and program proposals may not be accepted even if an artist is granted a residency.
If, in addition to the one of the aforementioned programs, an artist would like to propose an exhibition in the Armory Main Hall or in Space 2, they should indicate so in their application. There are a limited number of exhibition time slots designated for residency artists each year, and exhibitions can not be guaranteed.
In addition, all artists are asked to give a 5-10 minute presentation, artist talk or demonstration during their residency as part of the “On the Deck” series, an informal, monthly potluck that is free and open to the community, and designed to familiarize the public with residency artists and their work.
RESIDENCY APPLICATION FEE
Applications for residency at The Studios of Key West must now be submitted through an online application process. A $35 application fee applies to online submissions and is collected through an application portal. Mailed applications are no longer accepted. The online portal for submitting applications will be available online from January 7 – April 15 2013.
RESIDENCY APPLICATION PERIOD
Applications for residencies between October 2013 and August 2014 will be accepted from January 7- April 15, 2013.
APPLICATION NOTIFICATION
Acknowledgment of receipt of applications and notification of the results of the juried application process will be sent by e-mail from a “@tskw.org” address. Be sure to adjust your e-mail filter to receive these important messages.
