SUNY Oswego Artist-in-Residence Program
The Artist-in-Residence Program at SUNY Oswego brings an artist to campus for one academic semester (Fall 2025 or Spring 2026) to produce a body of work, teach in the area of their specialty, and to conduct research. The resident artist is given the opportunity to pursue research and realize a specific project while drawing on the University’s resources, including its facilities, faculty and student body, practice and performance space, studios, libraries and collections.
A central focus of this residency program is on artistic work that engages with issues of diversity, intersectionality, inclusion, and belonging, including but not limited to the experiences and lived realities of marginalized or minoritized communities or individuals. Candidates who are members of underrepresented or minoritized groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Call for Applications - 2025/2026 Artist-in-Residence
Candidates for the program include both emerging and established artists. For the 2025-26 academic year (one semester), the Artist-in-Residence Program is open to artists in the field of visual arts. Areas of focus may include (but are not limited to) new media, animation, emerging technologies and/or interdisciplinary arts practices that use technology within its conceptual framework. The residency will be part of the grand opening of Hewitt Hall, an $80 million renovation that will serve as the new home for the college’s renowned broadcasting, graphic design, and cinema and screen studies programs. The Artist-in-Residence will have access to their own private studio, VR studios & workrooms, an interaction design studio, prototyping rooms for 3D models and robotics, and more - all fully equipped and state of the art. We are looking for an artist who can connect our art students to these technological opportunities in imaginative and innovative ways. Cross-over between new media and studio arts is welcome. We particularly welcome creative artists whose work engages with diverse communities, LGBTQIA representation, recontextualizing histories, social justice, or feminism. Artists who work across multiple genres in the aforementioned categories and who demonstrate the ability to collaborate across disciplinary fields are also encouraged to apply.
During the residency, the Artist-in-Residence would be welcomed into a vibrant creative arts community at Oswego, which has thirteen full-time faculty members and more than 400 majors and minors. By working with art history, studio art, graphic design, illustration, and interaction design, students are given opportunities to expand their artistic horizons, define and use current methodologies and firmly grasp the importance of their work in multiple aspects of modern society. Students and faculty boldly explore the tangible and the rhetorical dimensions of art.
Goals for the Artist-in-Residence program are as follows:
-Create opportunities for students to have longer/more impactful experiences with visiting artists
-Highlight current work of underrepresented artists
-Increase the number of faculty from historically underrepresented or marginalized populations
-Host collaborative/interdisciplinary arts programs with multiple avenues for audiences within and beyond the campus community
During the course of this residency, the artist will complete a project in their field that engages with the campus and greater community, including two open workshop sessions and an artist talk or performance. Resident artists are also required to teach at least one course per semester (with the potential of more) in their specialty as an Adjunct Instructor. The selected Artist-in-Residence will receive use of campus facilities and studios, an honorarium of $14,000 with no housing, or an honorarium of $10,000 with housing included (only available Fall 2025 semester), in addition to adjunct pay of $5,000 per course. Expenses associated with the workshops and final exhibition will also be covered by this program, up to $1,000.
Application Instructions:
Applications are due Dec. 1, 2024 by 11:59pm.
A complete application submission will consist of the following:
-Work Samples–10-15 examples of artwork (images and/or links to videos of original work)
-CV or resume
-Diversity Statement (which should focus on the artist’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and how this commitment informs their artistic work)
-Description of possible new creative work to be completed during their residency, and potential topic(s) for community workshops
-List of three references with contact information
-Identification of areas you would feel comfortable teaching (see list below for current areas of need)
-Intro to Digital Media, Intro to Motion and Interaction, Motion Graphics, Multimedia, Creative Code for Artist, Virtual Reality, Special Topic related to Interaction Design
Materials must be submitted electronically (PDF format) to: Emily Junker, Assistant Director of Arts Programming - [email protected].
Applications will be reviewed by a diverse committee of campus faculty, staff, and students from various academic departments. Candidate should possess a terminal degree in the fine arts (MFA or PhD), or a BA + substantial publication, performance, or production history. Previous teaching experiences preferred but not required.
Announcement of selected Artist-in-Residence will be made by February 2025.
Questions regarding the SUNY Oswego Artist-in-Residence Program should be emailed to: Lowell Hutcheson, Director of Arts Programming - [email protected].