The ISC established residency programs as a way to expand on programming and provide members an additional opportunity to work with fellow artists in a studio environment. The ISC is thrilled about its ever growing residency programs as just one
of the many exciting benefits for our members.
Is your organization interested in a collaborative residency program with the ISC? Contact coengmanager@sculpture.org
ISC Residents are featured in Sculpture magazine, sculpture.org and the ISC Blog.
ISC @ SAW
Discover a world of artistic possibilities at the exclusive artist's residency program hosted by Salem Art Works (SAW), in collaboration with the International Sculpture Center (ISC). Join us from May 6 to July 15 for an enriching journey
where 2 to 4 selected artists will design and create sculptures for display at the prestigious Cary Hill Sculpture Park.
Housing, food, studio space, and stipend will be provided, ensuring artists can fully embrace their creative process. Applications open Tuesday, August 1 and close Thursday, November 30, at midnight. Be part of this transformative residency
experience.
Select Outstanding Student Award recipients worked side-by-side with world-renowned sculptor Heinz Aeschlimann, and his wife Gertrud, an art advocate, collector and art patron. This amazing inter-cultural experience had an enduring positive
and creative influence on the future artistic creation of the young artists.
The six-week residency included free intensive and individual workshop and work program, travelling and living costs, as well as fully equipped studios and guestrooms. Residents were featured in Sculpture, Sculpture.org and re:sculpt, the ISC Blog.
“While questioning the idea of home, I also challenge notions of domesticity, mimicking architectural elements in structures and quilts.”
Brittany Sievers
2017
“These works investigate the cyclical nature of existence and rely on viewer interaction to alter their form and investigate the dynamics between the natural and the human.”
Angie Seykora
2014
“My work explores the intersection of two particular visual and material cultures.”
Emily Stergar
2013
“It is my hope that after viewing this exhibit, people will acknowledge or become more aware of the manipulation that has gone into this system.”
David Platter
2013
“Just like many, I have worked hard to hone my skills and techniques but I am very warm and receptive to mentorship and fresh new revelations.”
2017 marked ISC's first year collaborating with Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) on a residency program. Outstanding Student Award recipients participate in a six week summer program on GFS’s campus.
The recipients are immersed into a communal studio amongst neighboring artists with access to numerous facilities.
Open Studio events are scheduled throughout the residency as they align with our overall program goals. Residents are featured in Sculpture, Sculpture.org and re:sculpt, the ISC Blog.
“My art explores the connection between nature, technology, and the scientific forces that shape human experiences and interactions.”
Layo Bright
July 13 – August 10, 2018
“My work approaches issues around social justice, politics, culture, and identity; attributed to societal interactions, an experience of a modern day post-colonial Nigeria, and a linked global community.”
“I examine the origins and manifestations of my sensitivity to the natural world while challenging human hubris in relation to wilderness, conservation, and nature.”
2019 marked ISC's first year collaborating with Josephine Sculpture Park (JSP) on a residency program.
Outstanding Student Award recipients participate in a 4 week summer program living and working on JSP's campus surrounded by artists, professionals, park visitors and sculpture and immersed on campus with workshops & free housing.
Residents create pieces on site throughout the residency as they align with our overall program goals. Residents are featured in Sculpture, Sculpture.org and re:sculpt, the ISC Blog.
“My current practice is about layering “place” and the way all of our spaces have collapsed into one another during quarantine. I am working to evoke place without depicting it. I have a habit of moving a lot and romanticizing the
places I am not. I sew various holographic objects that reference the main stops in my cycle of moving. The objects toy with the nuances of place and how the associations we link skew from reality.”
Sherwin Rio
August 12-September 12, 2019
“My work uses a Filipino/American cultural lens to investigate mis-visibility caused by a futile dominant Western perspective of separatist duality.”
ISC Residency @ Mana:BSMT
Mana Residencies gave local and international visual artists the opportunity to work at the organization's prestigious New Jersey headquarters. During the 3 month residency at Mana Contemporary's BSMT, ISC members had the opportunity
to freely develop and expand their practice with the benefits of additional space, a strong community (including curators, collectors, and other art world professionals), and ongoing support.
Mana Contemporary’s art complex includes resources such as the Keating Foundry and the Gary Lichtenstein Editions print shop, as well as Mana's art storage, handling, and framing services. Residents were featured in Sculpture, Sculpture.org and re:sculpt, the ISC Blog.
“The works do not answer the questions or propose solutions, but hopefully cause the viewer to consider, with more than a cursory glance, the visual culture of our cities, our entertainment, our public art, and our media.”
“I investigate and manipulate materials, using them in nontraditional ways. A familiar object becomes foreign when I twist representation and subvert functional design.”
“My interest is in exploring how this language of forms can be used to portray human predicaments such as vulnerability, a sense of engulfment, despair, limitation or one of alienation.”
“Exploring notions of impermanence, growth, origin, and mortality, my practice examines our personal and sadly disappearing relationship to the natural world.”
“This notion of social practice not only influences my approach to my work it has enabled an evolution in the very manner in which infuses I define my role as an artist in the world today.”
Katie Hovencamp
September 2016-April 2017
“My process of making art emerges from complex and contradictory circumstances, materials, and objects, and their multiple encounters.”
“The building wasn’t afraid of the work that I made, which was very nice as a sculptor being welcomed into this place and being encouraged to make large work.”
When residency programs are open and accepting applications, there will be a direct link from this page to the residency application. Only current ISC members are eligible to apply for ISC residencies. The residency
programs at art-st-urban, Grounds For Sculpture and Josephine Sculpture Park are awarded by the ISC to selected recipients of the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture awards.
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