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Top Facilities 4 Ways to Participate Application Link & Alternate Funding: Timeframe Liz Collins Rafael Lamas Alice Pettway Alee Peoples THORN:
Erin Ethridge and Colleen Marie Foley Erica Tucceri Keith Wilson

Chulitna Lodge Research Institute seeks to provide the time, space, clarity, and facilities for all forms of creative professionals or researchers to make and meditate.

From visual artists, to writers, to scientific researchers, and more, we encourage the gamut from seasoned professionals to enthusiastic hobbyists, to apply for our various programs.

We at Chulitna maintain a work ethic wherein artists contribute to the community. Some may do so through cleaning, some with special skills as needed, such as carpentry, and others through fees and/or special donation. Regardless, we hope all participants leave feeling as part of the ever-growing Chulitna family.

Facilities

Our Facilities are sufficient for many processes.

There is a complete wood-shop representing most every tool one would need.
Some Printmaking and Digital Photography facilities.
Welding and cutting tools. (Metal can be flown in, or repurposed from appliances/equipment collected over Chulitna's 80+ years.)
Light is ample, as is space for painters.

Writers and researchers will find our library a great place to find everything from obscure local native legends, to biology, anatomy or taxa.
Musicians - Please do apply!!

Most any material needed can be flown in, given enough notice.

4 Ways to Participate

There are 4 ways to participate as an artist at Chulitna.

Fellowship – No fee, all expenses related to room and board + travel stipend
Work Study – No fee, all expenses related to room and board
Resident Artist – Highly reduced fee, no work required.
Honarary Resident – No application required, no work required, full-fee with full-service, come make and enjoy!

Fellowships:

All expenses covered (except for material and shipping costs) including travel stipend and charter flight from Anchorage to the lodge.
Special rates available for family/partner and/or studio assistants to join for part or all of residency period. Rates are same as the 'Resident Artist' rates listed below.
There are sometimes possibilities for spouse/partners to work in trade for stay.
Staff members are available to help with any tool usage or technical assistance
15 hours/week contribution to running of lodge expected. (This can mean many different things depending on personal interest or ability. Chop Firewood - Clean Kitchen and Common Areas - Carpentry - Etc.)
24 hour studio access
Minimum 6 week commitment between May 1 and Sept 30 required.

Work Study:

Ensure you indicate a willingness to do a work study in your application as we choose most work study people from our pool of applicants.
All expenses covered relating to room and board (except for material and shipping costs)
25 hours/week contribution to running of lodge expected. (Currently we are seeking those skilled in electrical work, carpentry, farming, and washing lots and lots of dishes).
24 hour studio access
Minimum 4 week commitment between May 1 and Sept 30 required.

Resident Artist:

Must apply for acceptance.
Includes all expenses (except for material and shipping costs) from arrival at Lodge to departure from Lodge.
$800/week/person - double occupancy cabin (can be a spouse/partner/family member/studio assistant/etc.) If coming alone, you may possibly share a room with another artist.
$1300/week/person - single occupancy cabin (Just you in your own private cabin.)
No work exchange required, though all participants of all programs are placed on kitchen cleanup rotation. (approx. 2 meals/week.)
Staff members are available to help with any tool usage or technical assistance
24 hour studio access

Honorary Resident:

No Application Needed!
Includes all expenses (except for material and shipping costs) from arrival at Lodge to departure from Lodge.
$2200/week/person - single occupancy cabin (Just you in your own private cabin.)
$6800/month rate available.
Spouse/partner/family member/studio assistant/etc. may share cabin at same rate.
No work exchange required. No kitchen cleanup rotation.
Staff members are available to help with any tool usage or technical assistance
24 hour studio access

Application Link & Alternate Funding:

Applications to Chulitna's programming are now open!

Please complete your application on the slideroom website at the following link:

https://chulitnalodge.slideroom.com

Deadline: January 15, 2019

Didn't get a scholarship or fellowship this time around? Can't afford to pay residency rates? Many of our past residents have applied for grants to cover their 'Chulitna time'.

Here's one in particular for Artists wishing to attend with Dependents!

http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org

Timeframe

Early summer is a fantastic beauty full of hope and spring blossoms. Mid-Summer has great intensity with the midnight sun. Late summer to fall brings salmon, the changing of the leaves, and Aurora Borealis.

We have availability from mid-May through September.

Current Fellows

Liz Collins

Liz Collins works fluidly between art and design, with emphasis and expertise in fiber and textile media. Vivid palettes, dynamic patterning, and the transformation of yarn and fabric into multi-dimensional forms are some of the ways she creates pieces and environments that vary in scale, from the object-based to the immersive and architectural. Embracing abstraction, optics, and extreme material contrasts, and surrounding the viewer in vibrating color fields, Collins explores the boundaries between painting, fiber arts and installation, intuitively laying bare expressions of energy, emotion, and the viscereality of existence.

She has had solo exhibitions at the Tang Museum, BGSQD, LMAK and Heller Gallery in New York, AMP in Provincetown, MA, the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee, Gallery DLUL in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has staged large scale performance/ installations in Los Angeles, Zagreb, and on an island in New York City, among many other places. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions at art fairs, galleries and museums internationally, including Spring Break, NADA, Collective, Arte Laguna, the ICA/Boston, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the Museum of FIT, the New Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, MoMA, Sargent’s Daughters, September Gallery, NoLAB Istanbul, and the Drawing Center. Collins’ awards include a USA Fellowship, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship, and residencies at Siena Art Institute, MacDowell, Haystack, Yaddo, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She is part of the Queer Art Mentorship program, is on the Exhibitions Committee at the Leslie Lohman Museum and is currently in the Open Sessions program at the Drawing Center.

www.lizcollins.com

Rafael Lamas

Rafael Lamas is an orchestra conductor, a concert pianist, and Full Professor of Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies at Fordham University at Lincoln Center of New York. He has performed throughout Europe and the United States in venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Symphony Space, Vienna's Konzerthaus, and Granada's Auditorio Manuel de Falla. His most recent conducting engagements included works such as Fauré’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, and Dvořák’s New World Symphony. He is the author of ‘Music and Identity’ (Música e Identidad, 2008), ‘Listening and Interpreting’ (Escuchar e Interpretar, 2014), and several articles that appeared in peer-reviewed journals. He was awarded the 2006-2007 Rome Prize.

Alice Pettway

Alice Pettway is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger | O Tempo de Chuva (Salmon Poetry, 2017), Moth (Salmon Poetry, 2019) and Station Lights (forthcoming 2021). Her poetry, nonfiction and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, the Colorado Review, INSIGHT Into Diversity, The Miami Herald, The Progressive, Teaching Tolerance, The Threepenny Review, WomenArts Quarterly and many others. She is a former Lily Peter fellow, Raymond L. Barnes Poetry Award winner, and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Currently, Pettway lives and writes in Shanghai, China, where she is a poetry editor for the Shanghai Literary Review.

www.alicepettway.com

Photo by Una Zhu

Alee Peoples

Alee Peoples maintains a varied artistic practice that involves screen-printing, sewing, sculpture and film. Currently living between Oklahoma City and Los Angeles, she has taught youth classes at Echo Park Film Center and shown her sculpture and film work at GAIT and 4^th Wall. She has organized tours of her and fellow filmmakers' works including a 13-date trip across the Southern U.S. in 2014 and this past Fall with stops in The Netherlands and Berlin. Peoples has shown her films at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Images (Toronto) and New York Film Festival, and at museums and spaces including SFMoMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Pompidou Center, Dirt Palace (Providence) and The Nightingale (Chicago). She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made.

www.aleepeoples.com

THORN:
Erin Ethridge and Colleen Marie Foley

Interdisciplinary artists Erin Ethridge and Colleen Marie Foley have been working together as Thorn since 2015. As a collaborative, Thorn questions ideas of shared or composite identity, memory and body. Thorn takes their relationship as subject and tool, searching for places where the physical and psychic boundaries between them soften and become permeable. They negotiate dualities of distance/closeness, pleasure/pain, self/other in pursuit of their limits. These efforts take the form of performance work, sculptural tools, and electronic media.

www.thorncollaborative.com

Erica Tucceri

Erica Tucceri is a Melbourne-based, multi-award winning flutist, improviser, band leader and composer.

Passionate about contemporary and improvised music, Erica has been hailed as “Impressive” (Beat Magazine), and “a remarkable, versatile and engaging performer” (Alex Pertout - The Lion King, Australian Art Orchestra).

Erica performs regularly in Melbourne with hip/hop soul collective Billy Davis (nominated in The Age Music Victoria Awards 2016), and eight-piece groove-masters, WVR BVBY. She has also made recent appearances with Grammy nominated rapper GoldLink, Ziggy Zeitgeist’s acid jazz trio project Z*F*E*X, Latin salsa powerhouse La Influencia, and Cubadisco Music Award winners Alex & Nilusha.

Erica has recorded and toured across Australia and internationally, including a headline performance featuring her original music at the Ubud Village Jazz Festival (Indonesia). In 2016, she released her debut album, Bella Wolf, to critical acclaim. She is currently in the post-production stages of an original double album project, and has a number of collaborations slated for release in late 2019.

www.ericatucceri.com

Keith Wilson

Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem fellow, and graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. He has received an NEA Grant, three scholarships from Bread Loaf, and scholarships from MacDowell, UCross, Millay Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. Keith serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Four Way Review and Digital Media Editor at Obsidian Journal. Keith's first book, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love, will be published by Copper Canyon in 2019.

www.keithswilson.com