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Call for Applications: LOOP Arts Print Residency
Deadline: January 1st, 2015, 11:59 PST
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?: Bay Area(a) Emerging and Established(b) Artists who have a scheduled exhibition(c).
(a) Bay Area as defined by the California counties: Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Napa, and Sonoma. We provide access to the printing facilities, but not live-in quarters. Being driving distance is paramount. (Though we’re walking distance from The Paramount!)
(b) We created this opportunity in order to assist those in our community and we accept applications from artists ranging the entire spectrum (emerging to established) for the LOOP Arts Print Residency. If you are a student this residency is NOT for you. You have the facilities, but we will welcome you with open arms upon graduation.
(c) If you don't have proof of a scheduled exhibition you will not be considered for the residency. Our goal is to serve those who have the most need and will get the biggest bang for their residency. Large final prints for exhibition are our biggest printing costs. Need to print ten 30" x 40”s? That’s what we’re here for!
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY: Residents will be awarded for between 1 week and 1 month. (If you have a smaller show to print for, and won't need a full month, choosing a shorter residency will allow us to get more artists scheduled and in to print.) You will have 24 hour access to the studio during your residency. Though the residency is to make prints for a scheduled exhibition, you are welcome to print additional work, but you will be charged $8.00 per square foot to cover ink costs. **Artists will provide their own paper.**
Jurors will review the portfolios and statements and rank their choices. LOOP Arts will then go down the list and fill time slots, using applicants' preferences to create an optimal, full schedule. We announce the winners and open up the next round immediately with a new juror and a deadline two months later. Reapplications are accepted and encouraged. We keep our application fees low so that if you don't get chosen you'll be able to reapply. FEE: $30
STUDIO + FACILITIES: While in residence you will have access to our Canon iPF8300, a professional 44” ink jet printer that we run from a Mac Mini loaded with the Adobe Master Collection. It is connected to a 24” widescreen NEC P241W professional graphics monitor that is equipped with SpectraView software for color calibration. We maintain the calibration of both the printer and monitor to assure consistent printing quality.
Our 200 square foot studio is equipped with a 41” x 53” flat file that you will have access to while at LOOP Arts. Our walls are covered with galvanized sheet metal to hang prints with magnets for viewing and all of the lights in the space are daylight balanced.
Our studio is located in a warehouse in West Oakland, just four blocks from the 23rd and Telegraph Oakland gallery epicenter. We are less than a mile from the 19th Street BART Station. West Oakland is not Rockridge, but parking in front of our building is readily available and residents come and go at all hours of the day without incident, even late at night. Our building is home to AK Press and 1984 Printing and houses numerous artist studios as well as several apartments. LOOP Arts’ space is located off an indoor courtyard full of plants.
For submission guidelines and more information about the print residency, visit: http://looparts.com/residency.html