the Visiting Artist Residency
Global Visiting Artist Residency
Brandywine Workshop and Archives (BWA) begun it’s Visiting Artist Fellowship in 1975 with the residencies of Sam Gilliam and Romare Bearden. Since then more than 400 artists have been invited to collaborate with master printers in the production of limited edition prints and art projects.
Visiting Artist Fellowships are open to artists nationwide and BWA annually brings to Philadelphia more than a dozen of the most talented artists. Selection is done by a peer panel consisting of members of the Brandywine Artist Advisory Committee.
It also provides several talented local artists the opportunity to work in a collaborative setting to publish limited editions. The fellowship application process is open to serious visual artists working in any medium based on artistic excellence, it is highly competitive and the residencies are highly prized.
From each edition created, the artist retains one-half of the signed edition, Brandywine retains work for sale to finance future residencies, inclusion in traveling exhibitions for placement in its permanent collection , for distribution in satellite collections at public institutions around the country as contributions to national arts and educational institutions (which have included the Harvard University Museums, University of Texas Austin, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Scripps College, University of Delaware Museums, Hampton University Museum and the Library of Congress, among others).
All artists-in-residence are provided supplies, equipment and production services free of charge.
To learn more about the history of the residency program check out our short documentary here.
Workshop(s) 2.0
BWA launched a citywide effort bringing together the collective skills and facilities of several printmaking and fabricating workshops in Philadelphia to challenge traditional notions of printmaking.
After several decades of promoting the flat-bed and cylinder-based offset press process as a source for printing original lithographs and editions, BWA found itself an increasing need to appropriate different resources including new tools and printmaking advances such as digital and laser cutting processes, while continuing our commitment to education around traditional media and its history as a creative art form.
We launched the new approach for artist residencies that represents an expansion of our in-house capacities and affords artists the opportunity to work with a variety of ways of creating multiples. Artists are invited to explore the possibility of working in more than one production studio during their residency and may work with hand-made paper, computer-aided rapid prototyping, and traditional printmaking techniques or all in one project depending on it’s complexity.
ADDITIONAL RESIDENCY RESOURCES
The Residency Experience Videos
Checkout some of the voices from past artists-in-residence.
Artura.Org
Brandywine’s free, interactive digital archive of culturally diverse art and artists, Artura.org gives visitors access to a wide variety of voices, experiences, and histories not found in any other single open-educational resource. See what other artist have done before through their residencies.
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