We’ve launched a residency fellowship!
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership for our Essentials cohort. This year, we are launching a residency fellowship with ChaNorth!
We are excited to announce our partnership with ChaNorth, a residency program from the non-profit ChaShaMa that offers live/work space for artists and writers to create unrestricted and surrounded by the rural beauty of upstate NY. One Essentials Member from our network will be selected jointly with the ChaNorth team per year. Our first Fellow will be announced in mid-March, stay tuned!
What does the Fellowship entail?
One artist will be selected from our Essentials cohort for a residency spot at ChaNorth this 2024 season. The current fees for a residency at ChaNorth are $1200 per 4 week session. PARADICE PALASE is subsidizing the residency fees for this Fellow, covering $600 of the cost to attend.
How to Apply:
Essentials member artists can find the application on our member’s forum site, under the Essentials Hub. We encourage artists who have not had a residency before, have not attended one in a long time, or who have an upcoming project or exhibition and need space/time to apply. Artists that need a shorter residency session such as parents, caregivers or full-time workers, will also be considered for this opportunity.
Application Opens: Tuesday February 6th, 2024
Application Closes: Sunday March 3rd, 11:59pm, 2024 (no late exceptions! please plan ahead)
Notifications: Second week of March
Finalists will be asked to conduct a phone interview with Residency Director, Brigitta Varadi.
For questions, please email Kat at kat@paradicepalase.com. For quick answers, please check the FAQ page on the ChaNorth website first: https://www.chanorth.com/faq
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View of Essentials member Melinda Keifer Santiago making work in the expansive outdoor ChaNorth “studio” during her residency in 2023
🤝 Why ChaNorth?
PARADICE PALASE builds external opportunities for our member artists because we aim to plug them into art world experiences that propel their careers forward - by expanding their networks and nurturing their practices. Many of our artists have passed through the ChaNorth residency program (including co-founder Kat Ryals) and we have been graciously invited as a repeat guest to their studio visitor program. Over the years we’ve found that our missions of providing support, networking, professional development and opportunities to artists are in alignment. And not only that, but that there is an organic bridge between our artists communities already happening. So we are beyond thrilled to send our first Fellow to ChaNorth this year!
ChaNorth offers the opportunity for emerging and mid-career artists to work and live in the Hudson Valley in a supportive and secluded environment to create new work for four weeks. The program offers networking, exhibition and teaching opportunities and promotes awareness and understanding of visual arts in a rural community through engagement with the artists. During the ChaNorth residency, artists have multiple opportunities to share their work and network with others, including 2-3 studio visits per session from critics, curators, gallerists, and residency directors.
The heart of the program is community and sharing. Artists are invited to participate in public programs such as the Open Studios event, an evening of artists' talks and presentations at the Pine Plains Free Library, and they can even create and lead an hour-long free community art workshop at the Library as well. ChaNorth also sustains a successful partnership with McEnroe Organic Farm to supply healthy, fresh produce for the artist residency through a work exchange program. Shared meals resulting from this community service act as the anchor of the program, where resident artists gather once or twice a week for a potluck dinner.
ChaNorth also fosters a strong alumni community, helping artists to build lasting, meaningful connections to their artist practice and offering various exhibition opportunities whenever possible. A winter alumni retreat was launched in 2021 that provides past artists with work/live space to work on upcoming projects.
check out a few of our member alums in their ChaNorth studios and exhibitions
