CPCA Artist in Residence Program

In 2022, the Center for Print & Collaborative Arts launched a new residency program for artists living in and around Central Ohio. The program invites a small group of transdisciplinary artists to utilize CPCA’s facilities and resources to develop an exhibition over the course of three months. This residency imagines the CPCA site as a laboratory; an experimental context that actively produces exhibitions rather than passively contains or represents them. Collaboration and working in response to members of the cohort is not a requirement, but a possibility, as we search for new modes of generation through the framework of this program.

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The purpose of this residency and its structure is twofold: it aims to create an innovative organizational model for generating urgent, responsive projects and maintaining inclusive space for artists at various levels of their careers. It also seeks to offer a unique, paid opportunity for local artists to work alongside peers in a new context - one in which the individual practice becomes momentarily relational, and the physical space within and potentially outside of CPCA’s walls becomes an additional collaborator in an evolving exhibition.

This program asks…

In the process of creating a new project in dialogue with a cohort, how can new paths of experimentation unfold and reverberate within our practices? Can we build new strategies and ask different questions?

Can we open potential spaces for collaboration that work against the conventional model for residencies?

What happens when we make work in direct response to a question, prompt, a collaborator, or a site?

We would like to thank the Greater Columbus Arts Council for providing generous support for this program and others.

Applications are currently closed as we settle into our new location and will reopen in 2027.

Summer ‘24 Artists in Residence