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2010 McKnight Artist Residencies for Ceramic Artists
The McKnight Artist Residencies for Ceramic Artists Program is designed to provide national and international, mid-career individual ceramic artists an opportunity to be in residence for three months at Northern Clay Center, where they can develop their own work and, at the same time, exchange ideas and knowledge with Minnesota ceramic artists. This program intends to recognize and support ceramic artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit, who have already proven their abilities, and are at a career stage that is beyond emerging. Residencies will take place during the 2012 calendar year. 4 residencies will be awarded in 2011.Each resident artist will receive a $5,000 award and will be provided studio space at no cost, and a glaze and firing allowance. At the beginning of each residency, each artist will present a slide lecture, for which he or she will receive a $300 honorarium. Residents' work will also be included in a catalogue and group exhibition featuring other McKnight-funded artists. Recipients are required to submit a final report at the end of the grant period.
This program is made possible by the generous support of The McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis.
Eligibility
- You cannot be a resident of Minnesota.
- You must be a ceramic artist. Your work may be either functional or sculptural. Your work may incorporate other materials, but must be primarily ceramic.
- You must have completed all formal academic training and may not be enrolled either full-time or part-time in school.
- You must provide evidence of your professional achievements over a period of at least five years, through inclusion in major regional or national museum or gallery exhibitions, or juried or invitational craft shows, or receipt of other awards, grants or fellowships.
- Your work must demonstrate a sustained level of accomplishment, commitment and excellence.
- You may apply to only one of the organizations per year offering grants that are supported by McKnight funds. In addition, no artist may receive more than $50,000 in McKnight support in any three-year period.
- Artists who have previously received an NCC McKnight Ceramic Artist Residency cannot apply again until three years after the date of their award. (A 2010 award recipient cannot apply again until the 2013 grant cycle.)
Schedule
Completed application forms and application materials must be received at Northern Clay Center in hard copy by 5 pm on Friday, April 22, 2011. THIS IS NOT A POSTMARK DEADLINE. No faxed, e-mailed or late applications will be accepted. For more information, please contact NCC at 612.339.8007.Applications will be reviewed by a three-member panel, who will select recipients on the basis of perceived artistic excellence and demonstrated professional achievement, using proposed residency plans as support material. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process in May 2011.
Application Process
You must submit the following materials. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.- A completed application form.
- Twenty high-quality, labeled 35mm slides or a disk with 20 digital images, corresponding image list and a SASE if you wish the slides returned. (Disks will not be returned.) Slide label information and image list must include artist name, date of work, dimensions of work, medium and image orientation. Please click here for additional information. Digital images should be saved in JPEG format at 96 ppi with the image’s longest dimension not exceeding 1024 pixels. Image files should be labeled with last name, first initial, and numbers, indicating your preferred viewing order (example: doej1.jpg). Do not include any other information in the filename.
- A current resume (maximum of five 8-1/2" x 11" pages) with your name at the top of each page.
- An artist statement (maximum of two 8-1/2" x 11" pages) with your name at the top of each page.
McKnight Residency Application Form will be posted soon
2010 McKnight Artists
Northern Clay Center proudly announces recipients of 2010 McKnight Artist Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artists. Recipients of $25,000 fellowship awards are Linda Christianson, Lindstrom, and Heather Nameth Bren, Savage. Recipients of $5,000 residency awards are William Cravis of Berkeley, California, and Kevin Snipes of Helena, Montana. The residency recipients will be in residence for three months at the Clay Center between January 1 and June 30, 2011. Each will present a public workshop and/or slide lecture during his residency. As part of the project, the Clay Center will present a group exhibition of the work completed during the McKnight Fellowship year and Residency periods.
This year's selection panel consisted of the three individuals: William Griffith, studio potter and assistant director and residency program director of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts; Liz Quackenbush, potter, professor of ceramics at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and guest artist on the Upper St. Croix Valley Potter's Tour; and Virginia Scotchie, ceramic sculptor, participating artist in NCC's InsideOut exhibition, and head of ceramics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. 
This program, sponsored by The McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, reflects the Foundation's interest in supporting outstanding individual ceramic artists who have already proven their abilities and are at a career stage that is beyond emerging. 2010 marks the thirteenth year of the program. Two fellowship grants and between two and four residency grants are awarded annually.
The next deadline for applications will be Friday, April 22, 2011 by 5 pm.