CATCH and RELEASE?
One of my favorite things about a river vacation getaway or retreat is the trout. I like to catch them. I like to eat them. I do not like to clean them. It isn’t about my wanting to be ignorant of the source of my food or the avoiding the death of a living being. I just don’t like the guts part. No, really. If you’re a little squeamish too, make sure you take someone along for this next week-long artist residency on the river. Take a look…
Check out this Artist Residency Opportunity from Vision Quest Photo. It would be a great deal at the normal cost of $675; however, here is your chance to get a grant to spend a free week at the Trade River Retreat Center! For those of you that don’t normally consider Artist in Residence programs due to an inability to leave home for months at a time, this might just be your chance!
ARTIST RESIDENCY: Trade River Retreat Center
Vision Quest Photo Workshops announces a new yearly grant of a one-week photographic artist’s residency. Spend five days to one week alone in the woods devoted to nourishing your artistic spirit at Vision Quest’s Trade River Retreat Center in NW Wisconsin.
For mid-career fine-art photographers looking for a retreat-like experience to work on their art, reflect on their artistic direction, make new photographs, plan new career paths, have time away from work/family/life pressure and stress or use in any way they find useful to move their art or career forward or use the time away to simply reflect on where they are and where they are headed.
Stay in a very private retreat in the woods along the banks of a pristine sand-bottom river. The Trade River Retreat Center is located near Grantsburg, Wisconsin, an hour and a half from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN.
Modern facilities include full bathroom with hot and cold running water, heat, electricity, phone, modern kitchen, wood-burning fireplace, sauna, fire-pit, library and stereo system. See student photos made at the Trade River Retreat Center.
The residency will include a private consultation, in person or via phone or Skype, with Vision Quest Photo Workshops founder and director Douglas Beasley before the week begins to help set the tone and scope of time spent there and also after its conclusion, to discuss its impact on future artistic endeavors.
DEADLINE: July 31, 2011
ENTRY FEE: There is a $20 application fee.
SUBMISSIONS: Submit 12 .jpeg images. Also send a 300 to 500-word artist statement about your past and current work and overall artistic direction, and a 300 to 500-word statement of what you would like to do with your residency.
IMAGE GUIDELINES:
- sRGB or RGB color space (standard) – not CMYK.
- Save files to 72 dpi resolution, flattened layers, 8 bit JPG files.
- Sized to 1280 pixels on the longest side.
- JPG compression at level 7 (medium). This compression level will not affect the quality of the images viewed on the monitor.
- Enter zero in the field for width, height and depth.
- Each image should be titled.
- DO NOT USE characters other than a period or underscore preceding jpg in the file name. The following characters
!@#$%^&*()+?/"~will lead to image uploading problems.
For complete details, visit Vision Quest Photo online!
