**If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics, you are welcome to apply for a studio residency at BEK lasting for 2–6 weeks.**

  
This open call applies to residencies in the period 3 February–29 June 2025\. You can apply for a residency in our sound studio, video studio and/or electronics lab. If you need to explore something that requires a bit of space during your residency, you are welcome to use our project space for a shorter period of time by agreement.

  
We offer our facilities and equipment, and expect artists to work independently. However, we try our best to provide advice and help for your project specific needs. Residents get 24/7 access to BEK premises. BEK is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. BEK is situated on the 9th floor, with access through a small three person elevator, or a large industrial elevator and a staircase. There are 17 steps between the 8th floor elevator and the 9th floor. Our space has all gender toilet facilities, but not an universal, accessible toilet. Service dogs are welcome. We also provide the option of a quiet room.

  
Residents at BEK are invited (but not required) to present their work during their stay at BEK – as a work-in-progress or a finished result.

**Please note that we offer our production facilities only, and _do not cover_ travel, accommodation or project costs. BEK can provide the artist with a letter of intent for funding applications upon request.**

  
**VIDEO STUDIO** 

Our video studio is optimal for working with video and animation projects. The studio is equipped with two Apple 5K screens, stereo monitors and the possibility for 5.1 and a Mac Studio 2022 and editing software such as Adobe Creative Cloud suite, DaVinci Resolve Studio and audio editing in Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Max/MSP and Reaper. You can also easily work on your own laptop by connecting the speakers and the screens. In addition we have, DJI Ronin gimbal, Canon Mark III and Sony A1 camera systems.

  
**SOUND STUDIO** 

BEK offers a flexible sound studio for composing, mixing and recording. The room is equipped with a pair of Genelec 8050 monitors and a sub, an SSL BiG SiX Analog mixer with USB interface, in addition to this a RME Digiface combined with a Ferrofish 16A ADDA interface. In the room it is easy to adapt the speaker configuration to suit your project needs like quadraphonic or 5.1\. For larger experiments with multi-channel sound, we recommend that you also book the project room and set up our nine Genelecs 8040 or our four NNNN Comium 30 with a Devor 23 Subwoofer to the desired configuration. You can either use the sound studio system with software such as Ableton Live, Pro Tools, WaveLab Pro, Max/MSP, Reaktor, Traktor, Supercollider, Reaper, Izotope suite and Ina GRM´s GRM TOOLS – or bring your own laptop or music gear and connect. As an extension to the sound studio, we have various mobile field recording equipment and microphones, including multichannel field recorder and ambisonics microphones.

  
**ELECTRONICS LAB**

In the electronics lab, you can work on fabricating and modifying electronics. We have soldering stations with adjustable temperature, magnifying glass, oscilloscope, Dremel drills and accessories, drill press and much more. We have a stock of components, potmeters, servos, sensors, breadboards, rPI’s and Arduinos.

  
**PROJECT SPACE**

We have one large project space (71,6 m2) that can easily be converted into two smaller ones (42,2 m2 + 29,4 m2) with a partition. The project room has floor space and plenty of daylight, and a flat screen and projector are installed.

  
**WOOD WORKSHOP** 

Studio residents can get access to a wood workshop, which is a part of the artists studios cs55 Kunstnerverksteder. It is equipped with a large range of machines for wood, as well as hoods for spray painting etc. The shared workshop is 45 m2, located in the same building, a few floors below BEK, and has access to a large communal lift at the back of the building. Please get in touch with resources@bek.no to additionally apply for access.

Studio Residencies at BEK Spring 2025

Each year, the Saltonstall Foundation awards free, stipend-supported, accessible residencies to artists and writers who are residents of New York State and Indian Nations therein. We support artists and writers working in the following disciplines: 

* Poetry
* Playwriting & Screenwriting (NEW in 2025!)
* Photography (film or digital) & Filmmaking
* Painting | Sculpture | Visual Arts

A Saltonstall residency is a **small community**. We strive to provide a quiet, inviting, respectful, and nurturing community for creative individuals looking for uninterrupted time to focus on their craft.

There are just **five individuals in residence at a time**: one poet, one playwright or screenwriter, one photographer or filmmaker, and two visual artists. Each group of five arrives and departs at the same time.

  
**Dates for our 2025 residencies are as follows**

**Our fifth annual residencies for artist/writer parents -- now including full-time caregivers!**

* Friday, May 30 – Friday, June 6
* Friday, October 17 – Friday, October 24

_Please note_: this residency is strictly for artist/writer parents who have at least one dependent child (under 18) at home. NEW in 2025: this category now includes full-time caregivers with no restrictions related to the age of your dependent. Since the residency is designed to be a period of solitude and focus for artists and writers, we ask that children and other family members remain home.

  
**Our four-week residencies:** 

* Monday – Monday, June 9 – July 7
* Monday – Monday, July 14 – August 11

  
**One (of two) two-week residency:** 

* Thursday – Thursday, August 14 – 28

  
**Our three-week residency:**

* Tuesday – Tuesday, September 2 – 23

  
**Our second two-week residency:**

* Monday – Monday, September 29 – October 13

  

To help offset travel to Ithaca and other personal expenses, we offer **stipends** of $100/week to everyone who attends. Additional stipend support (up to $1,000) will be offered based on financial need and the median household income of an applicant's County. Artist- and writer-parents and full-time caregivers will each receive a $500 stipend. 

2025 Residency Program

The E75 Art Bus is an art journey exploring the E75 road through Europe. E75, or Europe Road 75, is a 5 639 kilometer long route that starts from Vardø in Norway and ends at Siteia in Crete, Greece.

  
E75 Art Vehicles is a project by Artists’ Association MUU and the Northern cultural magazine Kaltio. Project is part of the **Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture Programme**.

  
The project will host artist residencies together with an international residency network in 2025\. The art journey itself along the European E75 route takes place in April-May 2026\. The new artworks produced in the project will be experienced along the road and on the bus. The resident artists for the project are selected through an open call.

  
Roads connect European nations and people to each other. The E75 project creates both new geographical and new mental connections: the art bus unites the Mediterranean to the Arctic Ocean simultaneously with artists from eleven countries to each other and to active people in dozens of communities on the way. On the open call, we create and discover works that reflect upon universal European themes: democracy, giving peace a chance, and possible futures for our continent. In addition, artists can suggest projects pertaining to the technology and history of travel and communication.

  
The E75 residencies take place from April to June 2025, ranging from 6 weeks to 2 months. The artists are expected to present their work during the E75 Art Bus journey (Oulu – Siteía – Vardø – Oulu, 9 April – 18 May2026). The duration for artists’ participation for the journey will be negotiated with the artists later.

The project will host artist residencies together with an international residency network in 2025\. The art journey itself along the European E75 route takes place in April-May 2026\. The new artworks produced in the project will be experienced along the road and on the bus. The resident artists for the project are selected through an open call.

  
The facilities and equipment available in each residency location are different, and the chosen artists will be allocated to places that suit their work practice. The residency organisations will offer accommodation and working facilities. Travel expenses, some material costs as well as the artist fee will be covered by E75 Art Vehicles project. The artist fee is 1500 €/month/person (this will be increased up to 2700 €/month if the project secures extra funding).

E75 – a journey through Europe

We offer residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Artists apply individually. Peer review is the keystone of our selection process, with different panelists each season. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board and a studio.

All artists whose work falls within the five disciplines we serve are encouraged to apply. Generally, those who qualify for Yaddo residencies are either working at the professional level in their fields or are emerging artists whose work shows great professional promise. An abiding principle at Yaddo is that applications for residency are judged solely on the quality of the work. Yaddo places no publication, exhibition or performance requirements on artists in residence.

**Accommodation:** 

Each artist has a private bedroom and workspace in one of several buildings on the estate. Weekly room cleanings, plus linens and fresh towels are provided, and laundry facilities are available. Dinners are served communally in our dining room, while breakfast offerings and lunch are packed up for each artist to carry away. The kitchen cannot offer meals for special diets, but vegetarian alternatives are provided.

  
**Studio:**

Each guest is assigned a private studio. There are studios for painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, welding, and choreography, as well as a black and white photography darkroom.

Yaddo 2025 Artist Residencies

Light Work's Urban Video Project is now accepting proposals for the 2025-26 UVP Residential Commission!

  
We're looking for artists to create new work for the UVP architectural projection site on the facade of the iconic Everson Museum of Art.

  
The exhibition of the resulting work will take place in the following program year (2026-2027).

  

UVP Residential Commission artists will receive a fee of $10,000 toward the creation of the new work.

  
They will also be in residence for 2-4 consecutive weeks during the 2025-26 program year, during which they will be provided work space, facilities access, in-kind support, and accommodation in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence apartment in Syracuse, New York.
  
  

Urban Video Project: Residential Commission

FIA residencies provide opportunities for artists to live and work on Fogo Island for six to eight weeks. 

  
We ask each artist-in-residence to present one public talk, performance, workshop, or similar event during their time on the island residency.

Applications are welcome from contemporary artists living and working in Newfoundland and Labrador. Artists and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines including visual art, film, new media, arts writing, curating, architecture, and design are all eligible to apply.

This new residency is generously supported by anonymous donors.

NL artists-in-residence are provided with accommodation and studio space, a vehicle for on-island use, and an honorarium of $500 per week. Artists are responsible for their own travel to and from Fogo Island and will be provided with a travel stipend of $500.

FIA NL Artist-in-Residence

The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks on-site at the Archive’s locations in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute and in Westwood on the UCLA campus during the late spring of 2025 to activate the Archive’s collection in their artistic practice. The 2025 artist-in-residence will work exclusively with one or a combination of three specific collections: the Hearst Metrotone News Collection, _In the Life_ LGBTQ+ Collection and KTLA Newsfilm Collection. The program will provide the artist with the time and support necessary to access and work with these unique collections, creating a project that will reach new audiences and make connections with Los Angeles’ cultural community.

**Focused collections: Hearst Metrotone News, _In the Life_ and KTLA Newsfilm** 

The Archive holds the rights to these three collections and will make them available for the artist-in-residence without restriction.

* The Hearst Metrotone News Collection is one of the largest newsreel collections in the world. It contains over 27 million feet of distributed newsreels, unreleased stories and outtakes that range in date from the beginning of the series in 1914 through 1968.
* _In the Life_ (1992–2012), television’s longest-running LGBTQ+ newsmagazine series covers stories of social and political topics facing these communities. Access to this collection will include extended interviews and B-roll footage.
* KTLA has been a prominent independent television station in the Los Angeles area for more than 60 years, bringing local, national and world news to a regional audience. The KTLA Newsfilm Collection at the Archive primarily encompasses footage from circa 1958 to 1981.

Both the Hearst and KTLA collections contain a wide range of domestic and international topics, as well as subject matter specific to the greater Los Angeles area.

  
**Core Activities**

The residency will be a shared process for the Archive and the artist and will include the following core activities:

* The residency will commence in advance of the two-week, full-time on-site visits in the form of planning meetings to perform research, identify potential titles for access, refine project scope and proposal as needed, and collaborate with Archive staff to create an on-site visit itinerary.
* Research and identify materials for access from the Archive’s Hearst Metrotone News, _In the Life_ and KTLA Newsfilm collections.
* As accessible analog works are identified in the collections, the Archive will provide resources to digitize these analog holdings to enable the artist to use high-resolution files in their work.
* An introduction to archival training to understand the process of conservation and digitization that will take place on-site at the Archive’s facility in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute.
* The opportunity to meet with members of the Los Angeles community, the UCLA community and/or the archival community that could help advance their project, including filmmakers, archivists and faculty. This work will take place either on Zoom or in person during the two-week, full-time visits.
* Between July and November, 2025, the artist will work independently in consultation with Archive staff.
* By the end of 2025, the artist will discuss their residency at a public presentation, panel discussion or event in the Archive’s Virtual Screening Room.

**Program Timeline**

* In preparation for the two-week on-site visits:
* Six weeks before the program begins, meet 4-5 times, in person or on Zoom, for orientation, preliminary planning and research
* Two-week, full-time on-site visits completed by June 30, 2025
* Independent work and practice between July and November, 2025
* Archive presentation completed by December 1, 2025

**Requirements**

If accepted, the two-week, full-time visits must take place in Los Angeles in May or June of 2025\. The residency may occur over two weeks in consecutive order or split into two one-week increments. The artist is expected to actively engage for at least 10 business days during the on-site visits.

Projects utilizing resources from the residency will acknowledge the Archive as:

* “This project was created during the Artist-in-Residence Program at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2025, with support from the Golden Globe Foundation.”

  

To support these core activities, the Archive will provide an honorarium of $10,750 for the selected artist-in-residence. The artist-in-residence will be responsible for booking their travel and lodging, and may use their honoraria for these expenses at their discretion. 

Artist-in-Residence Program 2025

Artists and creatives (resident in EU or Creative Europe countries) who focus on process-led and site-specific creation. There is no restriction to specific media. All artforms will be considered (eg. visual arts, text, mixed media, sound, audiovisual, digital, actors, dancers, performers, musicians, writers, makers, creative thinkers, designers, etc.)

  
**What’s so special about TISP residencies?** The residency starts as soon as the artist leaves their home. The travel to the residency space becomes part of the process. All artists travel slowly – there are no aeroplanes involved. The journey is curated to include visits to art spaces which are part of the Trans Europe Halles network, and other associated spaces. Each TISP studio is a recycled/repurposed space and artists working there will be encouraged to work sustainably. Project partners will provide mentorship and opportunities to connect with local communities and other TISP artists.

  
Artwork produced during the residencies and travels will be archived on this website and represented on a digital platform, and then curated for exhibition during the project symposium in Oulu in 2026.

  
When does this happen?

  
* **March & April 2025 -** Online mentoring exchanges and route-making
* **01.05-31.05 2025 -** Greece residency 1 with Communitism, Athens
* **25.5.25 – 24.6.25 -** Finland residency 1 with TaikaBox, Oulu
* **29.5-28-6 2025 -** Greece residency 2 with Communitism, Athens
* **23.6-22.7.2025 -** Finland residency 2 with TaikaBox, Oulu
* **01.07.25 – 31.7.25 -** Germany residencies 1 & 2 with INWOLE, Potsdam

The fee is 4000 euros (gross) and each artist is responsible to declare it in their own countries where they will be taxed accordingly.

Tiny Spaces: Slow Travel Residency

The Denbo Fellowship is designed to offer artists from a range of artistic disciplines an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. It provides a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in the areas of papermaking, printmaking, and book arts.

  
**Residency Length:** 

Minimum 3 weeks, maximum 1 month (specify the amount of time in the application)

  

**Selected Artists Receive:**

* Up to one month of access to the printshop, type shop, paper studio and/or bindery
* Key to studios and 24-hour access
* Ten hours of one-on-one technical assistance
* A stipend for travel, materials, housing, etc. ($250 two weeks, $350 three weeks, or $500 one month)
* Storage space and flat file for tools and materials
* Use of standard shop supplies

Housing is not provided, although upon acceptance, artist will be receive information on opportunities of nearby housing.

Denbo Fellowship Spring/Summer 2025

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our residency program at the Santa Croce Monumental Complex, located in the municipality of Bosco Marengo (AL), Italy. MARES is offering 5 artists and 1 curator the opportunity to explore the history and unique character of the Alessandria territory, providing a free space within the Complex to produce thematic works. This first edition aims to reflect on the connections between the idea of _Ruins_ and contemporary art.

  
With its spacious rooms and restored areas, the site of Santa Croce is the perfect setting for workshops, talks, and the final exhibition, which participants will contribute to in September 2025 with the works realized during the residency. The artists and curator will be encouraged to direct their research on characteristic aspects of the territory and to establish connections with the towns in the province of Alessandria, to understand the social, economic, and geographical configuration of the area.

The residency offers:

  
* Monthly fee and logistical support
* Working space at the Monumental Complex of Santa Croce in Bosco Marengo
* Accommodation for duration of residency at Tenuta La Fiscala, a historic estate in the Fraschetta area
* A group exhibition to be held in September 2025, along with a related publication
* Production fee

MARES x Ruins 2025

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