The University of Michigan-Flint Arts + Culture Research Cluster together with Buckham Fine Arts Project | Buckham Gallery is seeking a Flint-area Emerging Artist (18+ years old) to participate in a residency on the campus of U-M Flint during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Through this residency, UM-Flint and Buckham Gallery seek to:
• Support and mentor an emerging artist in developing their unique creative process through new work
• Provide an artist with guidance and tools for personal and artistic growth for developing a career in the arts.
• Engage the artistic creative practice with Flint-based artists, U-M Flint students, faculty, and staff
• Forge interdisciplinary connections between the artist’s practice and various academic units on campus
• Provide opportunities for interaction and exchange between U-M Flint and the wider community of Flint-area artists and residents through Buckham Fine Arts Project and Collective.
The artist will be awarded an honorarium of $2,500 for this fellowship and have an additional budget of up to $1000 to spend on artistic materials, collaborators, or other expenses necessary to complete the work. The fellowship also includes access to UM-Flint’s art studios, wood shop, and technology, private studio space and exhibition/performance opportunity at Riverbank Arts (UM-Flint’s new community art space located in the Northbank Center), studio critiques with Buckham artists and UM-Flint faculty, invitations to attend Buckham Gallery events.
Applications accepted through August 15!
Through this residency, UM-Flint and Buckham Gallery seek to:
• Support and mentor an emerging artist in developing their unique creative process through new work
• Provide an artist with guidance and tools for personal and artistic growth for developing a career in the arts.
• Engage the artistic creative practice with Flint-based artists, U-M Flint students, faculty, and staff
• Forge interdisciplinary connections between the artist’s practice and various academic units on campus
• Provide opportunities for interaction and exchange between U-M Flint and the wider community of Flint-area artists and residents through Buckham Fine Arts Project and Collective.
The artist will be awarded an honorarium of $2,500 for this fellowship and have an additional budget of up to $1000 to spend on artistic materials, collaborators, or other expenses necessary to complete the work. The fellowship also includes access to UM-Flint’s art studios, wood shop, and technology, private studio space and exhibition/performance opportunity at Riverbank Arts (UM-Flint’s new community art space located in the Northbank Center), studio critiques with Buckham artists and UM-Flint faculty, invitations to attend Buckham Gallery events.
Applications accepted through August 15!