Open call for Art Omi 2014

Art Omi 2014 Click here to apply!Residency Dates: Thursday, June 19 to Tuesday July 16, 2014 GUIDELINES: Our application process has been standardized to allow each artist to receive equal consideration and time by our review committee. We receive many applications and variances will delay or may eliminate your application from being considered in the year submitted. If you have any questions about the application process, please feel free to email these questions to artists@artomi.org. DEADLINE: November 30, 2013 11:59 PM EST ELIGIBILITY: Application is open to visual artists from all over the world who have been professionally active for at least the past 3 years. We don’t accept applications from currently enrolled students: applicants please show that you are out of school at the time of the application in order to be eligible. Please note: having studied art is NOT a requirement: we accept applications from self-taught professional artists. PLEASE NOTE: As of 2014 we no longer have an alternate year submission policy. Even if you applied for the 2013 residency session and were not selected you are now able to apply every single year to the Art Omi Residency. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Please upload online the following documents, not zipped, but individually uploaded on this page: https://artomiinternational.submittable.com/submit HAVE THIS MATERIAL READY TO UPLOAD FIRST! 1. Your Resume/Curriculum Vitae. Either PDF or Word Document. Please title this document with your lastname, firstname, resume, with no dots, commas or spacing. Example: jonesmaryresume.pdf or jonesmaryresume.doc. 2. Eight (8) JPEG images, at 72 DPI resolution, file size 1 MB for each image. Images must be titled with your lastname, firstname, number, with no commas, dots, or spacing: Example: jonesmary1.jpg, jonesmary2.jpg. etcetera. Important: we can only accept jpegs. Please do not submit Powerpoint presentations, PDF, TIFF, Gif or PSD files. OR Links to three (3) video or audio excerpts uploaded on Vimeo or Youtube or directly on your own website. The jury is only required to review one minute for each excerpt therefore it is your responsibility to indicate which minute you would like the jury to review. It is at the jury's discretion whether they will review more than said minute. We review video documentation ONLY for artists whose work is time-based, interactive, web-based, kinetic, film, video, sound, and performance. If you work with installation, site-specific, painting, sculpture and/or drawing, please submit still images. AND 3. A Word document or PDF file of ONE PAGE ONLY with a description of the images or video you submitted. If you send more than one page only the first page will be reviewed. Please DO NOT use a font size smaller than 11. Please title document: lastname, firstname, description, with no commas, dots, or spacing: Example: jonesmarydescription.doc or jonesmarydescriptions.pdf. Please prepare this document as a numbered list of the images with title, year, size and medium of work. If needed, a brief (2-3 sentences) description can be included. Please format captions as follows: Title, Media/Materials, Size in American Inches, or Feet, Year. ARTIST STATEMENT: When filing your online application form, you will be asked for a 100-word maximum statement about your work. REFERENCES: Please provide the names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of two references and indicate your professional relationship to them. IF YOU WORK IN  A TEAM: please fill only one application. Only one person will be the contact person. The resume must reflect your work together, not individual work. FELLOWSHIPS:  Our fellowships ensure that artists from specific regions and/or dealing with specific issues are allotted a residency. If you are eligible for one of our fellowships your chances to be selected are greater. The following Fellowships are available for 2014: - Francis Greenburger Fellowship on Mitigating Religious and Ethnic Conflict: Fellowship only for an artist whose work relates to managing and/or mitigating religious and ethnic conflict. Work made at Omi must be in direct relation to this area. If you intend to apply for this fellowship please submit a one page statement explaining how your work fits in this category. Please email this document to: artists@artomi.org - The Antrev Sponsorship for the Arts: Fellowship for an artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. - Adam Mickiewicz Institute: Fellowship for an artist living and working in Poland. - Prana Studios Award: Fellowship for an artist living and working in India. - The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation: Fellowship for a painter living and working in the United States. - China Construction America Fellowship: Fellowship for an artist living and working in China. - Cecily Brown Fellowship: Fellowship for a woman artist with no geographic or media restriction. - Charlotte Street Foundation: Fellowship for an artist living and working in Kansas City. Please apply directly through Charlotte Street Foundation: http://www.charlottestreet.org ART OMI ALUMNI CANNOT APPLY AGAIN: In order to give as many artists as possible the chance for a residency at Art Omi, we ask that alumni do not apply for a return residency. We appreciate your spreading the word to artists who have not been to Art Omi yet. Due to the very high volume of applications, we ask that you be certain that your application is complete. Incomplete applications cannot be processed, and unfortunately we are unable to notify applicants about the status of their application until after the selection has been made. Good luck with your application!