Photo: Pete Gershon, The Core Program.
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The Core Program awards postgraduate residencies to highly motivated, exceptional visual artists and art critics who share a commitment to critical dialogue.
About the program
Established in 1982 at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Core artist residencies encourage intensive and innovative studio practice as well as an elaboration of an intellectual framework to understand that practice. In 1998, the Core critical studies residencies were established to provide an opportunity for writers to pursue independent curatorial and writing projects and to promote the critical dialogue necessary for both artists and critics to sustain their practices. Throughout the year, Core residents engage in ongoing dialogue with each other and with pre-eminent international figures in art and criticism who lead group seminars, deliver public lectures, and meet with each artist and critic individually.
The residency term is nine months, from September to May. Residents may apply for a second term. Each spring the program mounts an exhibition at the Glassell School featuring work produced during the current residency term. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication whose purpose is to document the work of all the residents.
Each resident receives a stipend, health insurance, and studio or office space.
How to apply
Applications for 2014-2015 are due April 1, 2014. For instructions and more information, visit www.mfah.org.
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Artist in residence: The artist studios of Last Ship are situated opposite the UNESCO World Heritage temples of Khajuraho. The Viswanath temple built in 999 AD is right in front, less than 20 meters from Last Ship. Little known prehistoric and ancient historic sites in this region tell parts of a story more than 10,000 years old, of the Mughals, the Chandelas, going back to the Guptas, the Kushans, the Shungas and the Indo-Greeks all the way to prehistoric cave-dwellers, revealing secrets of the birth of the philosophies of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and their common Tantric spiritual traditions. The artists of the residency are invited to have their own experience of this heritage, like the sadhus, aghoris, and mystics who make solitary pilgrimages through this region, called the most powerful tantric region in the world, in search of enlightenment. The Last Ship residency program is a one-of-a-kind experience of a history, nature and culture, hidden in the chaos and turmoil...
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