Josephine Sculpture Park is pleased to announce a call for proposals for our Artist-in-Residence program for 2025-2026. The funded residency will begin with a site visit in 2025 and a residency period of up to 10 weeks in 2026. JSP’s Artist-in-Residence program provides artists a career-boosting opportunity to make new outdoor work on a large-scale, with the physical space and technical and financial support to succeed.
Artists will be primarily visual artists working in sculpture as well as the mediums of sound and performance as responsive experiences to sculpture and the natural environment. Artists working in a variety of materials are encouraged to apply, including but not limited to stone, metal, wood, concrete, found objects, natural materials, plastics, fiberglass, light, and sound.
Artists must submit proposals electronically through the JSP AiR Call for Entry webpage by 11:59pm Mountain Time on May 14, 2025.
Selection Process
Scoring Rubric
Submissions will be scored by a Curatorial Committee based on the following:
Body of work: Does the applicant exhibit a high level of skill in their medium(s)?
Artistic growth: Does the applicant present a compelling proposal for how this residency would expand their artistic practice? JSP encourages AiRs to be innovative, take risks, and try something here that they could not create elsewhere.
Appropriateness of artwork: Is the proposed artwork physically and thematically suitable for exhibition at Josephine Sculpture Park?
Feasibility: Does the proposed timeline and budget reflect the scale and scope of the proposed artwork?
Clear interest in being part of the JSP AiR program: Does the applicant appear to have researched Josephine Sculpture Park and the Frankfort community?
Submissions with the highest scores may be invited to interview with JSP staff committee members. JSP staff make the final selection based on the committee’s recommendation.
Curatorial Committee
The Curatorial Committee includes:
1-2 JSP board members
3 JSP staff
2-5 artists and curators