• Are in-progress or in a polishing stage. The body of work would be finished in residency for the exhibition.
• Make a strong political statement about the zeitgeist.
• Involve a strong visual art component, but may also include writing & poetry, performance, research (independent, academic, scientific, or else)
• Involve immersive installation or experimental work
• May be creative collaborations (up to 4 people may attend residency), especially interdisciplinary ones!

Important Dates:

• Open Call Application: 2/28/25 – 4/21/25
• Applications close EOD Monday 4/21
• Semi-Finalist will be asked to video-interview between 4/27-5/3
• Awardee will be notified by 5/5/25 at the latest
• *Residency Session Window: June 13 – July 14th
  • *To be coordinated with Candace Jensen & ISPC
• **Exhibition Installation Window: Sunday July 13th – Wednesday July 16th
  • **To be coordinated with Jacob Rhodes & FP 
• **Exhibition dates: July 17 – Aug 21, 2025
• Opening reception: Thursday, July 17th, 2025

*Artist can choose their best arrival / departure dates at the residency within their window, for anywhere from 2-4 weeks, which do not need to be consecutive. In Situ is happy to be flexible for artists, whose calendars are often managed tyrannically by institutional calendar preferences. 
**Installation dates & exhibition dates are firm.

Resources included in Fellowship:

• 2-4 week residency in S. VT at In Situ Polyculture includes ample studio space & accommodations in a bucolic setting with access to a full kitchen for self catering
• 5-week solo exhibition in NYC at Field Projects Space
• Stipend: $1000 to be used as the artist sees fit
• Studio visit with Jacob Rhodes for exhibition planning / installation support. (In-person in NYC metro area, remote meeting if further afield).
• Pre-installation preparatory support at residency (ex: preparation of cleats for hanging panels, help packing work safely for transport to gallery, etc).
• Installation support at Field Projects

Awardee responsible for:

• Any travel to and from residency or gallery
• Attending the residency
• Grocery / self-catering expenses at residency (kitchen is fully stocked with all cookware and appliances on has many staples on hand)
• Participating / working with Field Projects to install the show
• Exhibiting at Field Projects
• Donating 2 small works, for the residency & gallery collections

Jurors:

• Candace Jensen (Creative Director & Cofounder, In Situ Polyculture)
• Jacob Rhodes (Founder & Director, Field Projects)
• Melissa Joseph (Artist, Curator & Writer, Member of the Board of Directors at In Situ Polyculture)

Juror Bios:

Candace Jensen is cofounder and Creative Director of In Situ Polyculture Commons, an arts residency and regenerative culture catalyst. She also serves as Letterpress Director at Ruth Stone House in Goshen, VT and Art Editor for their poetry & art quarterly, Iterant Magazine. She lives and works on unceded Abenaki land in Southern Vermont, Turtle Island.

A multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, calligrapher, curator and organizer, Jensen’s work is grounded in animism, deep ecology, and building creative community. Represented by Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2018-2024, Jensen has also exhibited in New York City, San Francisco & Oakland, Antwerp, Southern Vermont and Hillsborough, NC. Reviews and interviews have appeared in Whitehot Magazine, Art New England, the Adroit Journal, Ante Mag and Studio Visit Magazine. Her art and writing have been published by the Dark Mountain Project, Index Press Quarterly, Eratio Postmodern, Iterant Mag, the Earthkeepers’ Handbook (ecoartspace), and two forthcoming publications: Disobedient Futures via University Press of Kentucky, and a special issue of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, an open-access, double anonymous peer-reviewed journal.

www.insitupolyculture.org / iterant.org / www.candacejensen.com

Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist. Her work considers themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a second generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Arlington, ICA San Francisco, and List Gallery at Swarthmore College. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Artnet, Artnews, New American Paintings, WNYC, Le Monde, Vogue, CNN, Whitewall, Family Style, and participated in residencies including Artpace, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, The Textile Arts Center, BRIC, Fountainhead, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design and upcoming at Greenwich House Pottery. She is the recipient of the 2025 UOVO Prize and a regular contributor to BOMB Magazine.

www.melissajoseph.net

Jacob Rhodes is the Co-Founder/Director of Field Projects (est. 2011), one of a very few artist-run spaces in Chelsea, NYC. Focusing on creating opportunities for artists, Rhodes has fostered a community through open call exhibitions, art fairs, artist residencies, podcasts, magazines, and recently an annual Summer outdoor sculpture exhibition. Rhodes has curated exhibitions in various venues, including MoMa, NY, MoMa, Arlington, VA, Museum of Sex, NY, Material, CDMX, Volta, NY, SPRING/BREAK, NY, Driscoll Babcock Gallery, NY, C24 Gallery, NY.

Rhodes holds a MFA from Yale, BFA from Otis College of Art, and has attended Skowhegan Residency, as well as the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum.

www.fieldprojectsgallery.com / www.jacobrhodes.net

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