Deadline: 3 January 2025
The Trillium Arts’s Helene Emergency Artist Residencies Program seeks to support Western North Carolina artists of all disciplines substantially impacted by Hurricane Helene.
This new opportunity provides a variety of relief benefits to arts professionals working in literary, media, performing, visual, and interdisciplinary arts. This regional residency is open to arts professionals 18 years or older in Western North Carolina counties impacted by Hurricane Helene, including Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Clay, Cleveland, Gaston, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey.
Focus Areas
- Artistic Category (Which option best describes your artistic medium.)
- Literary: writing, journalism
- Media: graphic and web design, radio, television, film
- Performing: theatre, dance, music, and other types of performance
- Visual: painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media
- Interdisciplinary: has a significant presence in more than one of the arts mediums
Benefits
- A $700 relief stipend
- Private accommodations for up to seven consecutive nights during the months of February or March 2025 in a one-bedroom, ground floor suite.
- Welcome dinner
- Restorative time to reflect, rejuvenate and create
- Shared use of the grounds, including firepit, hot tub and waterfall area
- Use of a variety of supplies and onsite creative spaces that include a contemplation gazebo and a 380 square foot open air, covered workspace.
- Basic kitchen supplies and all household goods (towels, linens, paper products, etc.)
- Access to high speed fiber optic internet and laundry
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must currently reside in one of the affected counties and be 18 years of age or older.
- Applicants must be activity working in one of the following artistic fields: literary, media, performing, visual, and interdisciplinary arts
- Applicants must have been substantially impacted by Hurricane Helene.
- Artists at any stage of their careers are invited to apply. There is no application fee.
- This opportunity is intended for individual artists; nonprofits are not eligible.
Review Criteria
- Applications will be reviewed to ensure that the applicant:
- Is a verified resident of one of the NC counties impacted by Hurricane Helene;
- Has a legitimate artistic practice; and
- Has been substantially impacted by Hurricane Helene.
For more information, visit Trillium Arts.
