Call for Proposals for Nonstop Artists Residency program

Nonstop Institute of Yellow Springs announces
A CALL FOR PROPOSALS
for its second Artists Residency program
LOCAL STORIES—AN ORAL HISTORIES PROJECT
Application deadline: June 1, 2010

Nonstop Institute seeks proposals for its upcoming residency program Local Stories—An Oral Histories Project. The selected projects will incorporate an oral history (or histories) grounded in the lived experience of Yellow Springs and neighboring locales and can be expressed in a range of art disciplines and presentation formats. The proposals can be focused through subjects including but not limited to a person, a neighborhood, a period of history, or any of a community's shared natural, cultural and civic resources. Application deadline is June 1, 2010.

The final installations can be 2-d or 3-d work, media-based, text-based, performative, interactive or combinations of these ways of engaging subject matter and audiences. The four selected residency artists (can also include documentarians, writers, cultural geographers, others involved with oral histories) will have access to workspace at Nonstop for 7 weeks starting June 9. Opportunities for dialogue among residency artists and producers is an important component of this on-site residency project. The final projects will be installed and exhibited in Nonstop's spaces starting August 1, using either a section of Nonstop's 2000 sq ft exhibition space or its virtual website space. Components of the projects can also occur as a performance or screening in Nonstop's main space.

Local Stories—An Oral Histories Project invites applications by artists and documentarians working the southwestern Ohio region and will consider proposals by producers at any stage of their careers. Project jurying will be based on both the specific proposal for Local Stories—An Oral Histories Project and examples of past work. Four proposals will be selected, and at least two of the four will be current residents of Yellow Springs. Each artist selected will receive up to $150 for supplies. Further information and application forms will be available starting May 8 at the Nonstop website at nonstopinstitute.org. This project is made possible in part by the generous support of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation. If questions, please call 937-319-1075.

For further information please contact Chris Hill: chris.hill@nonstopinstitute.org or 937-767-2327.