Printmaking Residency: Winter Session 2025-6 - Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Due July 1)
Printmaking Residency: Winter Session 2025-6 - Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Deadline: July 1st, 2025
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking is fortunate to provide a dedicated studio for our Residency Program: the Helen Frankenthaler Printmaking Cottage. Within this space Resident Artists have the opportunity to produce a body of work in a supportive atmosphere for creative growth and development—using traditional as well as innovative printmaking techniques. The intention of the residency is to offer artists uninterrupted time and privacy 24/7 in a well-equipped studio with onsite living accommodations.
This solo residency has proven to be an ideal opportunity for experimentation and collaboration. Artists can add to their work practice, explore new mediums, create an edition, or otherwise advance their printmaking skills. CCP strives to advance outcomes from the residency that stimulate original and inventive work that the artist might not otherwise have attempted absent these amenities.
RESIDENCY STRUCTURE & SESSION SCHEDULE
CCP accepts applications on a semi-annual basis. Sessions are defined as follows:
Winter Session: November – February (Deadline to apply JULY 1st)
Summer Session: Mid-May – Early September (Deadline apply JANUARY 1st)
Duration: Artists applying may request a one or two week stay during these periods.
Community Engagement: One of the goals of our residency programs is engaging our local community in an exchange of ideas and techniques. Artists participating in any of CCP’s residencies will have the opportunity to conduct a studio talk or teach a workshop for CCP artists/members and other artists in the Norwalk community and greater New York metropolitan area. CCP will work with the artist to schedule and promote the additional programming through various outreach methods, including social media, to ensure a broad audience.
Edition Expectations: A print or set of prints created during the residency will be retained by CCP to be included in our print archive as a record of the artist’s time at CCP.
With each application, we ask for a full budget of a resident’s proposed project, even if your residency is self-funded.
**We recommend downloading this spreadsheet template. Use Excel or Google Sheets to fill in your details, save it, and re-upload it to the application form.
Budgets should include the following:
Cottage Stay: $1500 for 1 week, $1,000 each additional week (2-week maximum)
Production Fee: $20/day of printing. This fee covers standard studio supplies such as all cleaning solutions, paper towels, newsprint, black ink and modifiers. If you have questions about a particular supply, please contact us.
Materials: These include plates, paper, and most inks. Some materials may be purchased through CCP if desired; Contact us for current pricing.
Printer Fees: Resident artists may work independently and/or reserve up to 12 hours with one of CCP’s staff printers or professional collaborators on an hourly or daily fee basis. $65/hour Staff Master Printer, $55/hour Staff Printer
Do not include travel and food in your budget.
For details about our facilities and equipment available during residencies, please visit our FACILITIES PAGE.
RESIDENCY FUNDING METHODS
Professional Development – Artists teaching at colleges, universities, and high schools throughout the United States are invited to apply for one- or two-week residency based on professional funding guidelines at your institution. This opportunity is meant to further individual artistic objectives in printmaking. CCP’s Grace Ross Shanley Education Fund and other secured funds will match 50 percent of residency costs to a maximum of $2,500.
Self-funding – All costs related to the project and cottage stay will be the responsibility of the artist unless funding assistance through CCP agreed to prior to residency start date.
CCP funded – In an attempt to expand opportunities for artists who may not have other funding, CCP has offered to underwrite funding for Resident Artists up to $5,000. This funding is available for artists applying to Summer Session only. (Artists with other funding are not excluded from applying to the Summer Session.)
$35 application fee