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BOLT RESIDENCY
BOLT Residency artist exchange. Scott Hocking’s studio, Detroit, MIBOLT Residency is a highly competitive, juried, one-year artist studio residency program offering contemporary emerging artists the opportunity to engage the Chicago arts community and its public in critical dialogue about contemporary art.
The residency provides nine professional open-plan studios and a 500 square foot gallery space dedicated to residents. BOLT functions as an incubator program—taking a holistic approach to the development of residents’ artistic careers by providing: Studio Work Space (healthy and safe, open studio shared work spaces); Exhibition Opportunities (monthly rotating exhibitions of residents’ work in a dedicated gallery, including professional curating and marketing support); Professional Development (one-on-one studio visits from key arts/cultural leaders; free access to CAC’s monthly A.B.C. professional development workshops; and ongoing support from CAC staff); and Creative Community (creative peer/professional development community and environment encouraging and fostering collaboration among residents).
Uniquely comprehensive, BOLT is structured to provide artists with myriad resources and support to create, build upon, and sustain a long term career in the arts.
Click here for the current BOLT Residency solo exhibition.
Click here for the upcoming BOLT Residency solo exhibition.
2011-2012 BOLT Resident Artists: Melika Bass, Joseph and Sarah Belknap, Marty Burns, Kathryn Trumbull Fimreite, Gwynne Johnson, Jenny Kendler, Homa Shojaie, Amber Hawk Swanson, Eric Wall, and Stacia Yeapanis.
2012-2013 BOLT Resident Artists: Adebukola Bodunrin, Baccara Collective (Madeleine Bailey and Helen Maurene Cooper), Joseph G. Cruz, Laura Davis, Azadeh Gholizadeh, Jennifer Mills, and Christopher Ottinger. As part of this year’s residency, two of the inaugural 2011-2012 residents will remain in the program to serve as mentors throughout the year and further develop their careers and arts leadership skills. The 2012-2013 Mentors are Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap and Stacia Yeapanis. These mentors will have solo exhibitions at two Chicago venues to be announced.
The jury for the 2012-2013 BOLT Residency included: Lisa Dorin, Associate Curator of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago; Lane Relyea, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Theory & Practice department at Northwestern University and editor-designate of Art Journal as of July 2012; Roberto Sifuentes, interdisciplinary performance artist, co-founder, La Pocha Nostra and Assistant Professor of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Lorelei Stewart, Director at Gallery 400.
