New Artist-in-Residence Programme at Whitecliffe

12/19/2011 9:01:27 AM by Sarah

The Whitecliffe School of Arts and Design is pleased to announce the S-AIR Award 2012 Residency. This residency has been established to provide international artists with the opportunity to work within the Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design campus and travel in New Zealand for a period of 8-10 weeks from January-March 2012.

The purpose is to support ambitious and experimental projects and the production of new works. Visiting artists are encouraged to make links with New Zealand artists and arts organisations in order to promote an exchange of ideas and practice between Japan and New Zealand. The selected artist will be chosen by a panel of lecturers from Whitecliffe School of Arts and Design from a selection of artists supplied by S-AIR. The successful applicant will be announced on December 23rd 2011.

About NPO S-AIR
NPO S-AIR was set in 1999 as an organisation that runs artist-in-residence programmes in Hokkaido. The Agency for Cultural Affairs was initially the primary funder for the organisation. In 2004, S-AIR was registered as a NPO (Non Profit Organisation) and since then, the programmes have been run by S-AIR and Inter Cross Creative Centre, ICC (run by Sapporo Electronics and Industries Cultural Foundation). S-AIR has built various links between artists, arts centres and organisations both nationally and internationally. In the past ten years S-AIR has invited 57 international artists from 27 countries to take part.