Bard MFA Partnership with Wave Farm Offers Sound, Music, Film, and Video Artists Grant and Residency Opportunities
 

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.– Representatives from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) and Wave Farm, a Hudson Valley–based experimental digital media organization, will host a casual meet and greet Thursday, December 3, from 12 to 2 p.m. at Printed Matter, 231 11th Ave., in New York City. Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with music/sound and film/video faculty about Bard MFA’s interdisciplinary, low residency program and to Bard faculty and Wave Farm staff about programs and funding opportunities in 2016. Additional information sessions for Bard MFA take place Wednesday, December 2, at 7 p.m. in Chicago (1926 West Erie St.) and Saturday, December 5, from 2 to 4 p.m., Fisher Studio Arts Building, on the Bard College campus.  Bard MFA applications are due January 10, 2016.
 
Founded in 1981 as the first of its kind, Bard MFA is a nontraditional school for visual, written, and time-based arts, taking place over three consecutive summers, and two independent study periods completed off campus. Each summer session engages more than 60 faculty representing noted working artists across six disciplines, compressing a nine-month academic experience into two months. At Bard, the MFA community itself is the primary resource for the MFA candidate—serving as audience, teacher, and peer group in an ongoing dialogue. In interdisciplinary group critiques with 80 students and 30 faculty, discipline caucuses of 15 artists, and one-on-one conferences, Bard MFA students learn to address film/video, writing, painting, sculpture, photography, and music/sound. The intense critical response to students’ artistic practice enables them to reflect upon and refine their work over the 10-month independent study period. Last year’s thesis exhibition can be viewed at Artforum’s Art and Education site: http://www.artandeducation.net/yearbook/bard-mfa-class-of-2016/. More than $500,000 in financial aid in merit-based fellowships and need-based scholarships, in addition to federal loans, is available for 2016.
 
To register for the New York City, Chicago, or Bard campus info sessions, please visit: https://connect.bard.edu/register/?id=e0ee3d5c-7c98-4cc6-8b45-90c3091fcf62. Bard MFA online applications are available here: http://www.bard.edu/mfa/applying/.  Please call 845-758-7481 or e-mail [email protected] for program and application questions.
 
Media Arts Assistance Fund for Artists: Applications due January 1, 2016
The Media Arts Assistance Fund provides support for the distribution and exhibition of works in all genres of time-based and moving image media, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist New York State artists in making recently completed works available to public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. Applications for support are due on January 1, annually. A regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film assists artists in meeting expenses including, but not limited to: duplication of preview, screening, and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. Other distribution/exhibition requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applicants are encouraged to contact Wave Farm prior to submitting an application to confirm eligibility. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum of $10,000. For more information, please visit https://wavefarm.org/mag/artists
 
Wave Farm Artist Residency Program: Applications due February 1, 2016
The Wave Farm Residency (Acra, NY) Program provides artists with a valuable opportunity to concentrate on new transmission works and conduct research about the genre. In conjunction with their residencies, artists perform, are interviewed, and create playlists for broadcast on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM, a creative community radio station serving over 78,000 potential listeners in New York's Upper Hudson Valley, and international listeners online. Residencies are selected from an international open call, and take place June through October, spanning 10 days. Accommodations in the Wave Farm Study Center include two bedrooms (one full-sized bed each), studio workspace, kitchenette, lavatory, and shower, as well as access to the Study Center library, WGXC 90.7-FM Acra broadcast studio, and Wave Farm offices. The Study Center is located on 29 acres in the northern foothills of Catskill Mountain Park. The property features meadows, two small ponds, and a pine forest with large walking paths. WiFi, electrical, and audio hook-ups are available throughout the bulk of the property. Artists-in-residence receive a $700 artist fee. For more information, please visit wavefarm.org/ta/residencies. 
(11/20/15)
 

This event was last updated on 11-20-2015

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