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McKnight Residencies
2008 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 2009 calendar year.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.
Schedule
Completed application forms and application materials must be received at Northern Clay Center in hard copy by 5 pm on Friday, April 25, 2008. 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 2008.
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 must be saved as JPEGs at 96 ppi.
- 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
2007 Winter McKnight Resident Artist
John Lambert, a 2007 McKnight Residency recipient, will be in residence at NCC from January through March, and will present a free slide lecture on Tuesday, January 22, at 6:30 pm in NCC's library.Lambert received his B.F.A. from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and his M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. In addition to being a kiln builder and a replicator of Greek roof tiles, he is also an assistant professor of art for ceramics at Goshen College in Indiana. His large-scale sculptures have been included in various exhibitions, both in and out-of-doors, in Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, and Ohio.
During his residency, Lambert hopes to create a modular building system of symbols that can be installed “in any given architectural situation.” This exploration would be a continuation of his work with symbols and juxtaposition of symbols in 2D and 3D settings. He employs the symbol “X” because of its projections into four cardinal directions, which he says “parallel [Carl] Jung's four functions and are symbolic of the human need for psychic orientation.”
2007 McKnight Artists
Northern Clay Center congratulates the recipients of 2007 McKnight Artist Fellowships and Residency Grants for Ceramic Artists. Joseph Kress of Minneapolis and Mike Norman of Golden Valley each received a $25,000 fellowship award. Recipients of $5,000 residency awards were Greg Crowe, Western Australia; John Lambert, New Buffalo, Michigan; Lee Love, Tochigi, Japan; and Alyssa Wood, Davidson, North Carolina. These recipients will be in residence for three months at the Clay Center throughout the year 2008. Each will present a public workshop and/or slide lecture during his or her residency.As part of the program, NCC will present a group exhibition of the work of the McKnight Fellowship and Resident Ceramic artists in the early summer of 2008.
The 2007 selection panel consisted of Ulysses Deitz, Curator of the Decorative Arts Department at the Newark Museum in New Jersey; Susan Jefferies, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Ceramics and Curator-in-charge of the Ancient Americas Collections at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Arts in Toronto, Canada; and Ron Meyers, ceramic artist and professor emeritus at the University of Georgia in Athens.
This program, sponsored by The McKnight Foundation, 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. Two ceramic fellowship grants and four residency grants are awarded annually.