Thank you all for your interest in participating in Chulitna Lodge's Creative Residency. Unfortunately we will not be opening our application to new applicants for Summer 2021.

Due to the nature of the summer 2020 season, we are rescheduling Fellows and Residents from last year's application cycle who were unable to attend due to covid-19 related restrictions.

If you applied and were accepted to the Summer 2020 Creative Residency please email info@chulitnalodge.com to reschedule for summer 2021. We will do our best to contact everyone, but if you think you qualify and haven't heard from us by mid-January please do reach out.

If you are a new applicant please check back in Fall of 2021 for the new application.

We wish all of our artists the best in these trying and uncertain times and that we might be able to host you at Chulitna at some point in the future. 

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!!

We currently as of fall 2019 do not have ceramic facilities, but do plan to host a kiln building workshop and pottery workshops around mid-late September 2020.

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

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 including gourmet meals, 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 fellowship period.  Rates are same as the 'Resident Artist' rates listed below.
• There are sometimes possibilities for spouse/partners to work in trade for stay.
• 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 6 week commitment between May 1 and Sept 30 required.

Resident Artist:

• Must apply for acceptance.
• Includes all expenses including gourmet meals from arrival in Port Alsworth, Alaska to departure.
• $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.
• 24 hour studio access

Honorary Resident:

• No Application Needed!
• Includes all expenses including gourmet meals from arrival Port Alsworth, Alaska to departure.
• $2200/week/person - single occupancy cabin or yurt (Just you in your own private cabin.)
• Monthly rates available
• Spouse/partner/family member/studio assistant/etc. may share cabin at discounted $800 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

Applications Closed for Summer 2021

If you applied and were accepted as a Fellow or Resident for Summer 2020 and would like to reschedule for this upcoming summer please email info@chulitnalodge.com.

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

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 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 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 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 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

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 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 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

Past Fellows

Sebura&Gartelmann

www.jonassebura.com

www.alexgartelmann.com

Stump-Linshalm Duo

www.stump-linshalm.com

Erik Forrest Jackson

www.erikforrestjackson.com

Johnny Adimando

www.johnnyadimando.com

Beth Lipman

www.bethlipman.com

Kelly Goff

www.kellygoff.net

Participating Artists

Click HERE for a list of all the Artists who have ever stepped foot at Chulitna Lodge.

Go to our video blog page to see more on the work made by our artists at Chulitna!