Longform

September 25-October 16, 2025

Longform Scholarship Applications are due July 6 by 12:00 a.m. EST

Longform 2025 is a studio residency that seeks to provide an intensive, creative development experience, fostering deep connections amongst facilitators, visiting artists, and participants. One facilitator, two 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 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 25-October 16. Ox-Bow is excited to welcome back kg as facilitator and Hope Wang and Nia Easley as visiting artists.

Tuition is $5,750 and registration is open now. If a participant requires funding to enroll, they are encouraged to apply via the link below. Longform Scholarship Applications are due July 6 by 12:00 a.m. EST and will be reviewed by a panel of diverse arts professionals.

If you have questions regarding the applications process or the Longform program please email oxbow@ox-bow.org.

““I just feel so lucky. But I know it’s not luck. It’s a program that helps artists who work hard and strive to better their communities, and themselves via art.

I was able to experiment with a number of my ideas that I couldn’t at home because I didn’t have the resources available to me. I was able to experiment with locally sourced clay and mixed it with the chemical compounds that human bodies release when buried in soil. I was also able to make paper, which was something I’ve always wanted to do but didn’t have the funds to do so. I gained a confidence that I didn’t have prior to attending the residency. When I saw how excellent the art making was amongst my fellow resident artists, I realized I was selected because my art and concepts were up to par. It was a healing experience, not just from the art making but from the love and support of my fellow artists.” ”
— Jeanine Hua, 2024 Longform Participant

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

Hope Wang is a multimedia artist and creative entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. Contending with sloppy traces of human activity around sites of industrial labor, her artwork explores memory, loss, and longing in the ever-shifting architectural landscape. Her practice encompasses textiles, prints, painting, photo collages, and poetry. She is the founding director of LMRM “loom room,” a community weaving studio working to broaden accessibility to digital weaving equipment for artists in Chicago. Through LMRM, she develops events and collaborations that emphasize weaving as a contemporary art practice. Most recently, she was awarded a 2023 Visual Arts Fellowship from the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, as well as a 2023 Chicago Community Fellowship Fund from the Breakout Foundation. Her work has been exhibited nationally, most recently at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum and the Chinese American Museum of Chicago. Wang received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

HOPE WANG, birdsong lanced by the power washer roar, 2023, Hand-painted cotton, wool 85 x 63 in.

Nia Easley is a Chicago-based artist, designer, researcher and educator. Those roles often intersect and overlap. She earned her MFA in Visual Communication Design and practices an art informed by methods of design production. This work engages the absurdity, violence, and beauty of contemporary American life, focusing on our shared histories and how they have shaped the current landscape. She has taught workshops at Lekòl Kominotè Matènwa, UIC (Gallery 400), and Yale University. Most recently she is a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also holds the role of contributing Editor/Curator for the EXIT section of Interactions (IX) Magazine. Her artist’s books can be found at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the University of Iowa, Northwestern University, and DePaul University.

Nia Easley, The Last Green Book, with support from Sonnenzimmer and M. Dunaevsky, postcard publication consisting of Hasselblad photographs and a screen printed slipcover, Size: 4.25" x 6" x 0.25" , 2022

LONGFORM IS FUNDED IN PART BY:

The National Endowment for the Arts
Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
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 


Lenore G. Tawney Foundation: Ox-Bow is happy to announce new program support from the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation. Established in honor of artist Leonore G. Tawney, three fellowships have been created for the Longform residency program that celebrate her legacy by supporting mature artists who have dedicated years to their craft. Inspired by Tawney’s commitment to championing women in the arts, this fund provides financial assistance to those seeking to further their artistic journey.

Photos from Longform 2023 and 2024 by Natia Ser (2023 Summer Fellow)
Courtesy of artists