The Vance Waddell Feminist Residency

Once a year, Wave Pool offers a different kind of artist residency program that builds upon a private, local collection of world class work by female-identifying artists: the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection. This residency, like our others, will be socially-engaged, working collaboratively with our neighborhood and specific community groups within it. The Artist in Residence will have intimate access to the Vance Waddell collection, which features the work of artists who have and are working to resist oppression, subvert public scrutiny, and suggest alternative visual paradigms within the personal and political spheres. The successful candidate will respond to and build their project around the concepts and ideas offered in artworks held in the collection, as they create something new, needed, and proactive for our community.

The Resident-selected inspirational work(s) from the Vance Waddell collection will then be on public view, throughout the course of their exhibition. More importantly however, we hope that the work(s) will be activated through the socially engaged artist driven project and will extend the messages of these historically significant works out into our community with programs and partnerships.

Selected project grant awardees will receive:

  • A $2,000 budget to create a socially-engaged exhibition in our main gallery space

  • A flexible live/work space on site during the course of their Residency

  • Access to a private collection of radical feminist-leaning artwork

  • Programming and installation support from Wave Pool

  • Staffing support to help execute the experience for the public during open hours

To Apply:

  • Fill out the Vance Waddell Feminist Residency Proposal Form below

  • Send $15 processing fee via button below

Deadline for submissions – September 20th, 2024 at 11:59 PM.
Artists will be notified with decisions by November

The Vance Waddell Residency is sponsored by Sara and Michelle Vance Waddell.

 

These fees help cover our administrative costs to post and review submissions. If this payment is a barrier for your application please reach out to wavepoolgallery@gmail.com