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Guidelines for Critics' Residency Applications

WRITERS:
Send appropriate hard copies of your writing samples totaling no more than 2,500 words, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope for the return of your materials. Masters and Doctoral candidates are encouraged to apply. Outstanding undergraduates will be considered with transcripts and faculty references.

ARTISTS:
• Must offer new artwork (completed within the last two years) that has not previously been exhibited in the area (within a sixty-mile radius). All artwork must be made available for exhibition.
• Provide up to seven images of your work. You can send either a CD with jpg images or slides in a slide sheet. IF YOU SEND SLIDES: Please label each with your name, date, title of work, medium, dimensions, and place a colored dot on the front lower left-hand corner. IF YOU SEND JPG IMAGES ON A CD: Please send 3”x5” images at 300dpi, labeled with your last name and the image number (example: Smith_1.jpg).
• All artists should include an image index: Provide a digital or printed image index, including the title, date, medium, and dimensions of the work.
• Please provide a self-addressed stamped envelope with sufficient postage for the return of your materials.

ARTISTS AND WRITERS: Along with this completed application form and the above-mentioned items, please also send:
• A CURRENT RESUMÉ including information and experience that may be relevant to this program.
• A SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED POSTCARD so that MAP can confirm receipt of your materials.

PLEASE NOTE: Artists or writers who have participated in MAP’s Critics’ Residency Program within the last five years are not eligible to reapply.

Guidelines for Curators' Incubator Applications

1. A LETTER DESCRIBING YOUR PROPOSED EXHIBITION: In no more than two pages, please explain the proposed goals of your exhibition. Your narrative should provide the names and disciplines of each artist who will be included in the exhibition. If this is multi-curator proposal, then provide background information about your collaborator(s). Please note that curators are not permitted to exhibit their own work within the Curators’ Incubator exhibition.

2. YOUR RESUMÉ: Please provide all relevant experience that will convey your experience and ambitions as a curator. Limited experience? Then write things that you feel are most applicable to your role as a curator.

3. A RESUMÉ FOR EACH ARTIST: Please provide relevant experience that will convey artists’ background by chronologically listing exhibitions, educational and art experience.

4. A SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED ENVEOLOPE (with sufficient postage) so that MAP can return your application materials, plus an index card or postcard (with postage) with your name and address to return to you once we’ve confirmed receipt of your application materials.

Dates to be Announced

Please do not send applications to MAP for Currators' Incubator or Cristics' Residency until an official call for entry is announced, guidelines subject to change for 2010 calls for entry.