Longform

September 19 - October 10, 2024

Scholarship applications are due July 7 by 12:00 a.m. EST

Longform 2024 is a studio residency that seeks to provide an intensive, creative development experience, fostering deep connections amongst facilitators, visiting artists, and participants. One facilitator, three visiting artists, and a group of residents from any career stage, generation, and practicing any media shape the residency experience through a robust schedule of lectures, readings, studio visits, workshops, critical discussions, and of course, studio time. 

Each resident receives a studio space, room & board, and three meals per day.

This residency is inspired by alternative learning models and low-res academic programs where shared experiences foster fast and lasting connections. Beyond the time & space offered by many residency programs, Ox-Bow and the Longform facilitator kg builds out thoughtful schedules for the residents including multiple group discussions per week centered around readings and topics selected by the facilitator, studio visits with a new visiting artist each week, workshops led by visiting artists and Ox-Bow staff to encourage the participants to learn a new skills and increase their comfort with our facilities (including the ceramics, print, and metals studios) and the opportunity to present on their work via work share events in the evening. While participants are free to choose how they would like to build out their schedule, we hear routinely that the structured nature of the program, as well as the participants' unobstructed access to our facilities, are among the most cited strengths of the residency.

Longform will be hosted on Ox-Bow’s historic campus in Saugatuck, Michigan from September 19 - October 10. Ox-Bow is delighted to welcome facilitator kg to lead weekly discussions as well as Visiting Artists Surabhi Ghosh, Tim Mann, and Jack Schneider who will supplement the program with demonstrations, lectures, and studio visits.

Tuition is $5750 and registration is open now. Ox-Bow offers partial and full scholarships to applicants who identify as BIPOC, emerging, mid-career, artists over 65, and artists with families. To read more and apply for funding, please submit an application via the link below. Applications are due June 16 by 12:00 a.m. EST and will be reviewed by a panel of diverse arts professionals.

“I’ve honestly learned so much from kg and what they brought to the residency. I’ve been able to put language to my art that I’ve been struggling to do. They helped me with my artist statement, gave me names of individuals to research (...) I am beyond grateful for kg for this. The visiting artists were my favorite part. (...) Talking to Shala left me incredibly inspired. Your facilities were all clean and fully equipped which was lovely. Your campus is a dream!
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— Testimony from 2023 Resident

Meet our facilitator

kg

kg (b.1980, Poland) makes weavings and writes poetry from their home studio by the lake in Chicago. kg values the small the domestic and the everyday, situating those politics in their studio and curatorial practices. They have exhibited work with Horse and Pony (Berlin), The Brooklyn Academy Of Music,The Bruce High Quality Foundation and The Gowanas Ballroom (New York), Left Field Gallery and Adjunct Positions (Los Angeles), Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis), Monique Meloche Gallery, Gallery 400, Julius Caesar and LVL3 (Chicago), The John Michael Kohler Art Center (Wisconsin) and their most recent solo exhibition, Here Comes That Feeling at Hawthorne Contemporary in Milwaukee. Some Kind Of Duty, Their expansive weaving survey hosted by The DePaul Art Museum is available as a monograph through the museum shop and online. In 2017 kg attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Vermont Studio Center as a fellow in 2018. Future exhibitions include Intranarratives hosted by the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal. Currently they are Artist in residence at Chicago’s print studio, The Donut Shop and just curated Dog Show at Arts Of Life in Chicago and Small Wonders at NIAD in California. You can see their work now in Amuleto, hosted by The Hyde Park Art Center, The Franklin and The Mayfield in Chicago.

kg
It's Only A Broken Heart ( For Mama )
2022
here come
a couple of
blue things
roped into
the place where you
keep your
secrets
on a splinter
held out for
ever
10" x 14"

 

Meet our Visiting artist - more info coming soon

LONGFORM IS FUNDED IN PART BY:


The National Endowment for the Arts
The Seed Scholarship for artists of Caribbean descent
2024 Winter Break auction and social in support of scholarships for BIPOC artists
The Efroymson Family Fund 
The Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Photos by Natia Ser; Courtesy of artists