Vision Quest Photo Workshops announces a new yearly grant of a one-week photographic artist’s residency. Spend three days to one week alone in a rustic, but modern cabin in the woods, devoted to nourishing your artistic spirit at Vision Quest’s Trade River Retreat Center in NW Wisconsin.
For mid-career fine-art photographers looking for a retreat-like experience to work on their art, reflect on their artistic direction, make new photographs, review or edit past projects, plan new career paths, have time away from work/family/life pressure and stress or use in any way they find useful to move their art or career forward. Or use the time away to simply reflect on where they are and where they are headed.
Stay in a very private retreat in the woods along the banks of a pristine sand-bottom river. The Trade River Retreat Center is located north of St Croix Falls near Grantsburg, WI, an hour and a half from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN. Simple but modern facilities include full bathroom with hot and cold running water, heat, electricity, phone, modern kitchen, wood stove, sauna, gazebo, fire-pit, photo library and high-resolution stereo system with iPod input and CD collection.
This residency is intended as a solo retreat and will include a private consultation, in person or by phone, with Vision Quest Photo Workshops founder and director Douglas Beasley before your week begins; to help set the tone and scope of your residency and again after its conclusion, to discuss its impact on current and future artistic endeavors.
See student photos made at the Trade River Retreat Center
Book direct: Artist’s Residencies can be also be directly booked with Vision Quest. Call or email to check availability or to reserve a date.
To apply: Submit 12 jpeg images (see submission guidelines below). Also send a 300 to 500-word artist statement about your past and current work and overall artistic direction, and a short (100-350 words) plan of what you would like to do with your residency.
Submit application images to Smarter Entry
Send artists statement and residency plan to info@douglasbeasley.com
The Fine Print:
- Deadline for application: August 1st, 2012
- There is a $20 application fee (to cover Smarter Entry costs)
- The weeklong residency is at no additional cost. You provide your own groceries.
- You will be notified of acceptance within one week of deadline.
- Residency dates are flexible and will occur from Spring to late Fall.
- You will have one year to complete your residency.
- Recipient will be chosen by Douglas Beasley and guest jurors.
To prepare your images for submission, please follow these specific instructions:
- sRGB or RGB color space (standard) - not CMYK.
- Save files to 72 dpi resolution, flattened layers, 8 bit JPG files.
- Sized to 1280 pixels on the longest side.
- JPG compression at level 7 (medium). This compression level will not affect the quality of the images viewed on the monitor.
- Enter zero in the field for width, height and depth.
- Each image should be titled.
- DO NOT USE characters other than a period or underscore preceding jpg in the file name. The following characters
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