Cummings Artist In Residence Program

The Cummings Artist In Residence program creates a series of community portraits using photography as a bridge to building relationships and opening pathways to multicultural understanding and acceptance. The museum and its partners are creating a visual literacy program centered around imagery, working with professional artists to talk about their communities, cultures, and new and shared origin stories.

The residency is open to established photographers and creative artists who have produced individual works of photography, moving image, video, or site-specific installation works. Candidates should be serious about photography and creative art, primarily established artists looking to create a unique experience and vision in collaboration with the museum and town of Winchester. This residency will be a collaborative effort, with the artist's creativity as an introduction to ideas, techniques, and stories engaging Winchester to explore communities and cultures outside the city lines. There is no age limit, no residency requirements, and no application fee.

Photographers without gallery representation who have not exhibited solo in a commercial gallery, academic gallery, or museum setting, or have not received significant grant funding are eligible. Past awardees of the Cummings Residency Program, paid employees of the Griffin Museum or their immediate families, Griffin Museum board members and jurors' immediate families, and those immediate families of Griffin board members or jurors' paid employees are not eligible. Submissions must include an artist statement, biography and CV, project statement, estimated budget, and 10 total work samples (up to 10 images and up to 6 videos). Application period opens September 15, 2024, and closes October 31, 2024 at 11:59 PM Mountain Time. Resident artist announcement is mid-December 2024. Submissions are made through Café only; no other submission methods are accepted.