Culinary Artist in Residency
The Ox-Bow Culinary Artist in Residency is a unique program designed to support and elevate artists working at the intersection of food and art. Application and participation is not limited to creators with traditional fine arts training, but open to anyone who identifies as having a creative practice that considers food material – whether as research, or as a conceptual, sculptural, performative, and/or event based practice.
The program takes place in two parts over the course of a winter and summer season. First, a cohort of up to 6 artists will collectively gather on Ox-Bow's campus for a 10-day residency in late January/early February (dates are determined with final cohort). During the following summer, artists return to campus to create a culminating public program through our culinary series, Taste of Ox-Bow. Collaborators/collectives are welcome to apply.
Successful applicants receive:
Room and board
$1,500 artist fee
$600 travel stipend
$200 materials budget for the winter residency
Materials budget plus program and event support for the Taste of Ox-Bow event
As an art school and residency that has long been centered around collective dining and food as community-making, our Culinary Artist in Residency program celebrates the kitchen as a studio and hospitality as an art form.
If you have questions regarding the applications process or the Culinary Artist in Residency, please email oxbow@ox-bow.org.
“I’m grateful I had the chance to learn from my fellow residents during dedicated time for experimentation and skill-sharing. When my fellow residents and I cooked dinner each night, our plans evolved in real time as we discussed, made alterations, and came up with new ideas to try out. It was an immense pleasure to riff on each others’ cuisines, finding out where we overlapped and what strange directions we could take together. It was a singular experience to take this time with other people who think creatively about food in an art context. The skills and knowledge I gained at Ox-Bow will benefit my practice and surely lead to new collaborations with a growing network of artist-cooks.””
2024-2025 Culinary Artist-in-Residents (from left to right): Sara Clugage, Daniel Pravit Fethke, Edward Cabral, and MAGNET
“Ox-Bow’s Culinary Artist Residency program gave me the space to confidently experiment with collaborative cooking. Their incredible artist-run kitchen is at the heart of everything that happens on campus, and this program takes advantage of Ox-Bow’s unique history and studio infrastructure to push artists, chefs, and the audiences around the Saugatuck community to think through the acts of cooking, gathering, and sharing meals in new and exciting ways. It’s intersectional while remaining uniquely, beautifully true to the Ox-Bow spirit of joyful and spontaneous culinary collaboration.””
Photos by Eugene I-Peng Tang (Summer Fellow 2024)