Mother's Milk Artist Residency

Mother's Milk is a 2-6 week interdisciplinary residency designed to support three or four visual artists, sound artists, or creative writers pursuing innovative work in their field. The program provides individuals or collaborators with time and space to pursue creative projects alongside other residents whose different perspectives, backgrounds, and interests offer inspiration and interaction. Work that is more experimental in nature without regard to commercial viability is of special interest.

The residency is located on a renovated dairy farm at the edge of Newton, Kansas, on 7.6 acres heavily wooded in most areas with some historic farm machinery left in place. The grounds offer opportunities for installations (with prior discussion and approval) and may provide natural materials for projects.

Residents will be exceptional creative practitioners—including emerging, mid-career, and established artists—selected based on excellence and merit of project proposal and the applicant's interest in and ability to work independently. Applicants cannot be currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program, must be at least 21 years old, and must reside on-site for the duration of the program. International applicants must show proof of English language skills and will be responsible for acquiring appropriate visas if accepted. Applications are due January 22, 2021, with jury notification in mid-March 2021. The $25 application fee includes a project proposal statement (not to exceed 500 words), current CV, samples of recent work completed in the last two years, and contact information for two professional references. Work sample requirements vary by discipline: creative writers submit 5-10 pages combined into one Word or PDF file; sound artists submit 3-5 audio and/or video samples no more than 2 minutes each; visual artists submit 8-10 images or combination of images, audio, and video files (no more than 5 media files per submission). Mother's Milk is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race, sex, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or physical ability.