Galpões Sto. Antonio Residency Program Notice

Call for Applications - 2019

Galpões Sto. Antonio is an artistic action and experience project set up in an eucalyptus farming and goat breeding farm close to Amparo (130 kilometers from São Paulo). The project’s facilities consist of a number of refurbished sheds with workspaces and equipment suitable for different art practices, as well as exhibition areas and residents’ quarters. In 2019, Galpões Santo Antonio enhances its mission of fostering art creation in a rural environment: its Galpões Sto Antonio Residency program starts hosting artists interested in producing artwork based on an immersion experience in the farm’s environment and daily life.

Galpões Sto. Antonio Residency 2019 offers residencies with duration of one to four weeks. in this first edition there will be seven artists selected through the program’s notice along with seven more artists invited to work during the month of october of 2019. the artists involved will be working in the fields of drawing, painting, sculpture, sewing, joinery, ceramics, or site-specific art. There are no restrictions of age or nationality. Applicants must submit their proposals by april 13, 2019. The selection will prioritize projects which address, in enticing and inventive ways, interactions between the artist’s research and the specificities of the rural environment: landscape, atmosphere, natural cycles, extended time, stillness, and local raw materials.

The Residencies

The result of the selection process will be announced in May 2019 and the first residencies will take place in October of 2019. The selected artists will sign a contract with Galpões Sto. Antonio accepting the provisions detailed below. Residents will have the right to:

Lodging: Free accommodation in one of the two residents’ houses. Both offer bedclothes, bath towels, fully equipped kitchen, wood-burning stove, private garden, and Wi-Fi connection, besides an attached lounge with library and television.
meals: 2 daily meals will be offered (lunch and dinner) from monday to friday.
Facilities: Free access during determined hours to four working sheds equipped with Wi-Fi connection, easels, tables, ceramic kiln, electric lathes and sewing machines, as well as material for art production (various paints, papers, brushes, clay, fabrics, collage material, sand, stone, earth, and wood).
Critical supervision: Resident artists will meet with the residency curators to discuss the process and progress of their work.
Exhibition: if the artist is interested, artworks produced during the residency may be displayed in the farm’s exhibition venue at the end of the residency period. if that is the case they must specify their interest in their submission/project proposal.
publication: in the first semester of 2020, galpões santo antonio will publish a catalogue containing a bilingual critical text of the project’s first edition and its participants.
Fee: On signing the contract, the artists will receive from Galpões Santo Antonio the following fees:
• One-week residencies: R$ 1.000,00 (one thousand reais)
• Four-week residencies: R$ 2.500,00 (two thousand and five hundred reais)

The residencies do not cover:

- Travel and transport expenses.
- Specific materials required by the projects and not commonly available in the workspaces.

Commitments

The artists selected for the Galpões Sto. Antonio Residency Program will make the following commitments:

Participation in workshops: Residents are required to attend a workshop in connection to their project, which will be organized by the farm and held on a weekend.
Farm work: Residents are required to collaborate with a daily farm chore of their choice: planting, watering and cleaning the vegetable garden; feeding animals such as horses, goats and hen; gardening; collecting eggs; or others.
Assignment of work: At the end of the residency period, a small piece of artwork produced by the residents during their stay on the farm will be assigned to the Galpões Sto. Antonio collection.

General rules

- Residency programs are individual.
- Applicants must be available to carry out the intended residency program over the period defined in this notice.
- Residents are asked to remain on the farm during the week. Attendance on weekends is optional, except when required for an activity related to the residency.
- Residents shall follow the farm rules introduced to them at the beginning of their working period. These include silence hours and work schedules; coexistence with animals; waste recycling; and general care to prevent fires and accidents.
- Residents shall be responsible for cleaning and maintaining their living quarters, laundry room and working sheds.
- Residents shall show an environmentally conscious attitude compatible with living on a farm with protected forest areas.
- The program is not responsible for the healthcare of residents.

Application Process

Applicants must submit the following by april 13, 2019, to the email address artfarmproj@gmail.com:
- Completed and signed application form
- Portfolio, online or in pdf file, with examples of the applicant’s work
- CV
- A document of up to 500 words explaining the project the applicant intends to develop during the residency. This must include a conceptual presentation of the work; a rationale of the project’s relevance to the applicant’s research and the significance of executing it on a farm environment; and a list of technical requirements (materials, tools and spaces required).
- Photos, sketches or drawings of the project are welcome.
Applicants shall receive confirmation of receipt and approval of their application via email.

Schedule

Deadline for applications: april 13, 2019
Deadline for announcement of selected applicants: june 30, 2019
Residency periods: October 2019

Galpões Sto. Antonio

Fazenda Sto. Antonio
Bairro Areia Branca, Amparo, SP
Opening hours (main entrance)
Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 17 p.m.; Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.; or scheduled visits by phone +55 (19) 97159 6647.