artist-in-residence program 2025/26

Candidates for the program include both emerging and established artists. For the 2025-26 academic year (one semester), the Artist-in-Residence Program is open to artists in the field of visual arts. Areas of focus may include (but are not limited to) new media, animation, emerging technologies and/or interdisciplinary arts practices that use technology within its conceptual framework. The residency will be part of the grand opening of Hewitt Hall, an $80 million renovation that will serve as the new home for the college’s renowned broadcasting, graphic design, and cinema and screen studies programs. The Artist-in-Residence will have access to their own private studio, VR studios & workrooms, an interaction design studio, prototyping rooms for 3D models and robotics, and more - all fully equipped and state of the art. We are looking for an artist who can connect our art students to these technological opportunities in imaginative and innovative ways. Cross-over between new media and studio arts is welcome. We particularly welcome creative artists whose work engages with diverse communities, LGBTQIA representation, recontextualizing histories, social justice, or feminism. Artists who work across multiple genres in the aforementioned categories and who demonstrate the ability to collaborate across disciplinary fields are also encouraged to apply.

During the residency, the Artist-in-Residence would be welcomed into a vibrant creative arts community at Oswego, which has thirteen full-time faculty members and more than 400 majors and minors. By working with art history, studio art, graphic design, illustration, and interaction design, students are given opportunities to expand their artistic horizons, define and use current methodologies and firmly grasp the importance of their work in multiple aspects of modern society. Students and faculty boldly explore the tangible and the rhetorical dimensions of art.

Goals for the Artist-in-Residence program are as follows:

• Create opportunities for students to have longer/more impactful experiences with visiting artists
• Highlight current work of underrepresented artists
• Increase the number of faculty from historically underrepresented or marginalized populations
• Host collaborative/interdisciplinary arts programs with multiple avenues for audiences within and beyond the campus community

During the course of this residency, the artist will complete a project in their field that engages with the campus and greater community, including two open workshop sessions and an artist talk or performance. Resident artists are also required to teach at least one course per semester (with the potential of more) in their specialty as an Adjunct Instructor.