Longform

Program date: August 9–29, 2026
Applications for Longform 2026 are currently open.

This intensive, three-week studio residency serves artists from all generations and career stages who are seeking deep creative development and meaningful connection. Occurring August 9–29, 2026 on Ox-Bow’s historic campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, the residency brings together one facilitator, visiting artists, and a small cohort of residents for an immersive and collaborative experience. Longform is especially well-suited for painters, printmakers, fiber artists, and writers seeking a focused, discussion-driven environment that supports independent practice and thoughtful feedback.

Residents receive private accommodations, a dedicated studio space, and three chef-prepared meals per day. This structure allows participants to focus fully on their practice while benefiting from Ox-Bow’s supportive and communal environment.

Inspired by alternative learning models and low-residency academic programs, Longform cultivates a rhythm of rigorous engagement and open exploration. Participants take part in group discussions based on readings and topics selected by the facilitator, weekly studio visits with visiting artists, and hands-on workshops that expand familiarity with Ox-Bow’s facilities—including printmaking and papermaking. In the evenings, residents share their work through informal presentations that celebrate dialogue, curiosity, and exchange.

The cost of Longform is $5,750 and requires a portfolio application. Applicants may indicate interest in need-based funding and include a brief statement of need within the application.

This year, Longform will be facilitated by kg, who will guide the cohort through a series of conversations, readings, and shared inquiry across the three-week residency. The program will also feature a dynamic group of visiting artists who contribute through workshops, studio visits, and dialogue. Adelheid Mers, Matt Morris, and Hope Wang will join as Guest Artists, each leading a 3-hour workshop open to residents and offering individual studio visits. In addition, Dianna Frid will participate as a Visiting Artist, presenting an artist talk and conducting studio visits with all residents. Together, these engagements create multiple points of exchange, feedback, and connection throughout the residency.

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

Longform Application

Applications due June 7, 2026

BACK ROW: Maddie Brucker, Eve Emrich, Cristina Umaña Duran, Nanxi Jin, Nina Elizabeth, Xyl Lasersohn; FRONT ROW: Erin Adams, Alex Hambrick, Sasha-Kay Nicole, Pamela Corrales, Niva Parjuli; NOT PICTURED: Maryam Adib, Daniella Porras. Photo by Nolan Zunk (SF’25)

“As a Latin American artist, it’s very hard to live from art. People often see it as unnecessary. But art feeds our souls — it’s a spiritual necessity. We are feeling creatures, and we need art to live complete lives. Ox-Bow reminded me of that.”
— Pamela Corrales, 2025 Longform Participant
“I’d done other residencies, but I didn’t know what made Ox-Bow different until I got here. This turned out to be exactly what I needed — connection and community. There’s such generosity here. kg connects people to each other in ways that are really meaningful. It’s been a very enriching experience.”
— Erin Elizabeth Adams, 2025 Longform Participant

Meet our facilitator

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.

LONGFORM IS FUNDED IN PART BY:

Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
The Seed Scholarship for artists of Caribbean descent
The Efroymson Family Fund 
Warhol Foundation

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 by Natia Ser (SF’23) and Nolan Zunk (SF’25); Courtesy of artists