September 2027 Anderson Center at Tower View Early Career Artist Residency (for MN and NYC Artists)

Eligibility

Eligible countries: US

Must legally reside in Minnesota or NYC's five boroughs, not enrolled in a degree program, 2-10 years of experience.

September 2027 Anderson Center at Tower View Early Career Artist Residency (for MN and NYC Artists) Deadline: 12 Jan 2027 Country: United States The Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, Minnesota invites early-career artists of any discipline living in Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City to apply to the organization’s Early Career Artist Residency Program for concentrated, uninterrupted creative time to work on and advance their personal artistic goals and projects. Applications to participate in the five-artist cohort in September of 2027 are due at 12:00 p.m. noon CST on Tuesday, January 12, 2027. The Anderson Center’s Early Career Artist Residency is an ideal fit for early career artists in need of focused time and dedicated space in an inspiring residency work environment that empowers them take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving. Thanks to generous support from the Jerome Foundation, selected emerging artists receive a $625/week artist stipend, documentation support, art-making resources, lodging and studio space, a travel honorarium, groceries, and chef-prepared communal dinners. The Anderson Center is an artist community founded in 1995 on the Tower View estate, a venerable research-and-development lab for the arts rooted in an expansive natural setting in rural Red Wing, MN (approximately 1-hour outside the Twin Cities metro). The organization has renovated and restored the estate’s historic buildings to support working artists and the creative process, including developing twenty-two active studio spaces and three galleries. A renovated barn serves as a performance and event venue, the historic main residence houses artists-in-residence, and fifteen acres support a sculpture garden. The Anderson Center’s Early Career Artist Residency is geared toward generative art making, as well as exchange across an interdisciplinary cohort. The program is well suited for vocational early career artists in pursuit of time, space, and resources to truly commit to a project and explore new creative territories. The Anderson Center seeks to support early career writers and artists with an uncompromising drive to create new work at Tower View that demonstrates significant potential for cultural and community impact, is technically accomplished, and engages diverse communities. The organization also believes that the environment and resources of Tower View, along with an exchange of ideas between artists working across disciplines, can serve as a catalyst for new inspiration and innovative directions for the work early career artists create while in residence. Duration of residency The Anderson Center’s Early Career Artist Residency Program is a 4-week residency-fellowship the month of September 2027. Selected artists must commit to arriving on September 2 and departing on September 29. September is the only month the program takes place. Accommodation Each resident is provided room, board, and workspace for the length of the residency period in the historic Tower View residence.  Dinners are prepared and presented by the Anderson Center chef Monday through Friday. This chef also shops for groceries for artists-in-residence. Residents are responsible for preparing their own breakfasts and lunches, and meals over the weekends. There are also housekeepers who clean and maintain the historic facilities. Residents have access to the many walking trails on campus and to the Cannon Valley Trail, which goes through the Anderson Center’s property. Bicycles are also provided. Residents have responded to many different aspects of the gorgeous Tower View campus through their work, including composers sampling natural sounds and visual artists harvesting plant materials to create site-specific natural inks. Disciplines, work equipment and assistance The Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, Minnesota invites early career visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, musicians, performance artists, scholars, translators and more to apply. The program is interdisciplinary.Studio / Workspace Visual artists will be provided a 15' x 26' studio and are responsible for supplying their own materials. Other workspaces on-site include an open-air metalsmith facility, a dark room, and a print studio (with a Charles Brand-like etching press). Practice space is also available for dancers, choreographers, and musicians. Composers are provided with access to a 1906 Steinway piano and a Royale grand piano.Fees and support There is no fee to apply or participate. Thanks to generous support from the Jerome Foundation, selected early career artists receive a $625/week artist stipend, documentation support, art-making resources, lodging & studio space, a travel honorarium, groceries, and chef-prepared communal dinners. Expectations towards the artist The program is set-up to minimize distractions and other obligations so that artists have every opportunity to fully focus on their work. However, the Anderson Center was one of the first artist residency programs in the country to require that residents give back to the local community and connect with area residents and organizations through community engagement activities. Staff work with artists to facilitate and customize at least one hour of mutually beneficial exchange with the Red Wing community that helps foster connection and greater a sense of place. Within the last few years, Anderson Center residents have connected with 12 schools in five area communities (ranging from elementary through college), 5 senior centers, 2 correctional or detention facilities, 7 community organizations serving children and families, and 8 community organizations serving adults. Residents have also engaged individuals from all walks of life through public workshops, events, discussions, and artful interventions — both at the Anderson Center or in the community of Red Wing. Application information The four primary eligibility guidelines for the Anderson Center’s Early Career Artist Residency are: -Legal residency in the State of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City. -Not enrolled in any degree-granting program from time of application through residency period. -Self-identification as an “early career artist” with 2-10 years of generative experience in the field. -An artistic practice centered in generating and creating entirely new work. Complete program guidelines are available at andersoncenter.org. Eligible artists must submit their application online via theandersoncenter.submittable.com. There is no fee to apply. Jury review will take place in late January and early February. Applicants will be notified by February 5 at the latest as to the status of their application. A phone interview process with finalists will take place in late February following a second round of jury review. Selected artist residents, wait-list and runners-up will be notified by March 2, 2027.

How to apply

Apply online via Submittable; complete guidelines available on the organizer's website.