Lawrence Arts Center Project-based Residency


Goal: To help support, sustain, and foster growth in local arts and artists by providing material support for development of special projects, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary works, helping local artists to create works competitive on a national scale.

Info: The Lawrence Arts Center is a 40,000 square foot building housing three formal gallery spaces, the John Talleur print studio, the fully equipped and extensive Jane Kleinberg ceramics studio, a state of the art digital media lab, dance and performing arts studios, black box theater, metals and glass studio, a performing arts theater equipped with digital projectors and film screen and an arts-based preschool. These extraordinary resources can be made available to local artists for development of projects, installations or performances outside their normal studio practice. Individual artists or teams are encouraged to submit proposals for projects that show innovation and a desire to develop new work. Preference will be given to proposals that imagine the space in new ways and can benefit from the extensive studios and creative resources at The Lawrence Arts Center. Proposals will be reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Contact: Molly Murphy, Project coordinator, molly@lawrenceartscenter.org


Requirements:

  • 1-3 month commitment

Submissions requirements:

  • Short Bio
  • CV or resume
  • project description/proposal
  • short statement on why the resources at LAC would be beneficial to your project
  • application fee of $15.00

Selected artists will receive a stipend of up to 300.00 per project, use of studio space at Arts Center established times, and up to 8 hours of private instruction in any studio space or medium.

The Lawrence Arts Center is staffed with experts in each of our program fields, as well as arts professionals, and two annual artists-in-residence in the areas of printmaking and ceramics who can prove invaluable resources and energetic co-inhabitants for short-term residencies.



Lawrence Arts Center Awards First Project Based Residency

Aaron Storck

The Lawrence Arts Center has awarded its first Project-based Residency to Lawrence artist, Aaron Storck. The goal of this new program, funded in part by a grant from the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission, is to help support, sustain, and foster growth in local arts and artists by providing material support for development of special projects, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary works, helping local artists to create works competitive on a national scale.

Storck will work in the Lawrence Arts Center to develop a high definition video to coordinate with an installation scheduled in the front gallery of Lawrence Arts Center and a large-scale painting. The works will then travel to a group show at the PAFA Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, opening October 22. The show, curated by Julien Robson of PAFA, and co-curated by Chris Cook of Salina Art Center (among others), is entitled HERE, and features 24 artists from 6 regions around the country.


2010-2011 Project-Based Artist in Residence Exhibition
AARON STORCK Wizard Porch and Garden
OPENING FINAL FRIDAY June 24, 2011