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Visual
artists are sponsored
for periods of three to twelve months by governments, corporations,
foundations, galleries or private patrons. Artists are provided with
24-hour access private studios, which range from 300 to 400 square
feet.
ISCP
does not provide living accommodation, however, a number of national
sponsors, who send participants to ISCP each year, provide a furnished
apartment in Manhattan as part of their award. Nearly
all sponsors, however, provide the artist with a stipend for living
expenses, travel and materials.
During
a one-year residency, for example, each artist can take advantage of
studio visits by at least 22 guest critics, participation in two
Open Weekend Exhibitions and Field Trips to art centers in New York
City and the northeastern United States.
The
Guest Critic Series is the hallmark of ISCP programming and an
effective vehicle for introducing the artists' work to New York
museums, galleries and alternate spaces. ISCP seeks to expose artists
to critical feedback from the broad spectrum of opinion that New York
City's diverse professional milieu offers: twice-monthly studio visits
range anywhere from meetings with the director of a Williamsburg
artist-run space to a Chelsea blue-chip dealer or international
Biennial curator.
Three-day
Open
Weekend Exhibitions are hosted semi-annually, in May and November, each
event attracting approximately 2,000 visitors, from art professionals
to art enthusiasts.
In
addition, participating artists are given the opportunity to meet with
many of the international visitors to the program: curators, gallery
owners, journalists, writers, artists and personnel from foundations,
residency programs and government cultural agencies from over 50
countries.
The
program offers support and direction in the artists’
acclimatization to New York. Participants are invited to various
professional and social events throughout their residency. Daily
dialogue among artists and curators occurs by default, instantly
creating a sense of community.
Participants can however, choose as much
autonomy or integration as wished.
The
increasingly significant role of the curator in international art, led
to the creation of a curatorial adjunct in 1999. ISP thus acquired a
"C," becoming the International Studio & Curatorial Program
(ISCP).
Curators
are sponsored
into ISCP for periods of two months or more. Participating curators are
provided with a private, furnished office space, cell phone, Mac
computers and Internet access.
Curators
can take advantage of the same hybrid offered to artists and meet with
the scheduled guest
critics
as well as all other professionals, who visit the program. If their
tenure is concurrent with an Open Weekend, they are expected to present
their work and/or documentation of their projects. Given enough advance
notice, the program will contact academic institutions and art
organizations to arrange off-site speaking engagements as well as
schedule studio visits and introductions.
Depending on the individual goals of the curators,
ISCP’s vast network of contacts is an ideal basis for
becoming familiar with US curatorial practice, pursuing academic
research, writing magazine assignments, surveying the city’s
vast range of commercial and not-for-profit exhibition spaces, visiting
libraries, museums, galleries, higher institutes of education as well
as learning about the unique roles of private sector funding of the
arts and philanthropy in the U.S.
The
brevity of a curator’s tenure, two to three months, if
advantageously used, can be the cornerstone for future projects,
whether exhibitions, publishing assignments, lectures or teaching.
ISCP
provides a dynamic creative ambience by default. Curators find
themselves in a community of emerging international artists with whom
they are free to collaborate, if wished.
For any further inquiries, ISCP
prefers to be contacted by email.
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