The apexart Outbound Residency sends New York-based creative individuals abroad for one month to participate in an educational and cultural immersion program where they spend their time exploring a new city, visiting institutions, meeting with professionals in various fields, sitting in on classes, attending events, and much more. The main purpose is to fill the resident’s mind with as many ideas and experiences as we can so they might have new inspiration to bring to their work and life when they return home. Unlike traditional residencies, the apexart program asks that residents consider their stay as a break with their professional life and to allow for times of contemplation and learning in the creative process.
Selected residents are provided with airfare, an apartment in the Outbound location, a cell phone, and a computer with Internet access. The apexart Residency Program differs from standard studio-based residencies in that we do not provide a studio for our residents and furthermore, we ask them to suspend artistic production during their stay. Instead, residents live in a centrally-located apartment and are given a rigorous daily schedule to follow, which introduces them to institutions and events throughout the city that take them out of their focused activities and hopefully provide unexpected new experiences that act as catalysts, adding new ideas and approaches to their current and future work. The idea behind this model is to simulate someone moving to a new city to experience all the discovery and exploration that accompanies it. In selecting locations for our Outbound Residencies, we try to provide an experience that will be as different from the New York City lifestyle as possible in order to give our residents the opportunity to experience something completely new and outside their comfort zones. In the past, we have sent residents to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Athens, Greece; Kellerberrin, Australia; Seoul, South Korea; and Bangkok, Thailand.
Sorry, applications are not accepted for this program.
