2023-24 Artist-In-Residence
DEADLINE TO APPLY: May 1, 2023
The Delaware Contemporary invites you to apply to our 2023-24 Artist-In-Residence program! This year-long residency program provides a fully-funded, shared studio space with a small cohort of residents, the community of Studios@ artists, and TDC staff. Selected artists, designers, or art collectives will be provided with a personal mentor and structured professional development to work toward a cumulative exhibition at The Delaware Contemporary for the summer of 2024. Artists-In-Residence benefit from educational experiences, shared studio space, and a general stipend for materials and exhibition costs. Additional scholarships are available for financial need.
TDC seeks to assist in the career growth of new and emerging artists and place emphasis on providing the Residency Program to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). TDC is driven to provide equitable access to career development and capacity building opportunities for underserved populations and strives to contribute to diversifying the nonprofit and museum industries through our redesigned Residency Program.
HOW TO APPLY:
To qualify, all applicants must fill out the application form below and have an active ArtSource artist registry portfolio. The ArtSource registration fee is $35 and covers all opportunity fees for a calendar year. Once you sign up for ArtSource you are eligible for the Artist-In-Residence opportunity as well as all additional exhibition opportunities at The Delaware Contemporary.
Artist-in-Residence Jury 2023
Natalie Hijinx, Philadelphia
Natalie Hijinx (aka Natalie Hutchings) she/her, is a multidisciplinary artist, futurist, fabricator, educator, and member of the experimental artist collective Vox Populi in Philadelphia.
Natalie’s art shenanigans are based on speculative futures and worst-case scenario alternate universes, realized in sculpture, installations, digitally fabricated objects, performance, public engagement stunts, digital tokens, and video. These absurd, elaborate, and darkly humorous projections are puzzled together from social and political failures, the impending climate apocalypse, the amorality of AI, declassified government experiments, conspiracy theories, and the logical outcomes of widely-held Sketchy Ideas.
Natalie earned her BFA summa cum laude in Interdisciplinary Object Design, a hybrid of sculpture, traditional craft methods, and digital fabrication at Towson University. She earned an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Delaware. Her work was featured in Sculpture Magazine in 2019 and she was a 2018 Fellow of the Delaware Public Humanities Institute (DelPHI) for Material Culture Studies.
Her 2022 solo show, an immersive installation entitled HITBOX: A Post-Apocalyptic Convenience Store, was featured in the UPenn publication t-art magazine. Hijinx has shown in galleries in Berlin, Germany; Dallas, TX; Portland, OR; Wilmington, DE; Baltimore, MD; Philadelphia, PA; and others, with an upcoming 2023 exhibit in Nashville, TN.
She is currently one of eight artists working on Futures Without Guns, a multimedia speculative art exhibition investigating gun violence as a health equity issue, sponsored by the University City Science Center and supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. (Exhibition in 2024)
Her favorite tools are her carpenter grandmother’s hammer and the Demo Hawg, a three-foot-long demolition crowbar.
https://www.instagram.com/nataliehijinxart/
https://linktr.ee/Hijinx5000
Links:
https://voxpopuligallery.org/
https://t-artmagazine.com/nihilistic-humor-lea-devon-sorrentino-and-natalie-hijinx-at-vox-populi/
https://sciencecenter.org/programs/art/futures-without-guns
Stephanie Boateng, Wilmington
From Gail Obenreder, Delaware.gov:
Stephanie Boateng is a 24 year-old 3D portrait painter based in Wilmington, Delaware. She primarily focuses on scenes of happy black women, expressing their beauty through things that represent happiness like glitter, rhinestones, flowers, butterflies, bright colors, etc. Her portraits are very emotional beings - the smiles on the girls she paints are almost contagious, filling one's soul with joy. It is her mission and passion for those smiles to impact others. Boateng believes that a contagious smile might just be the slight push that improves the viewer's current emotional state.
Boateng is a former Artist-In-Residence at The Delaware Contemporary and Individual Artist Fellow through the Delaware Division of the Arts. She is currently a member of The Studios@ community at The Delaware Contemporary. She has also shown in many galleries around Wilmington with the ultimate goal of spreading happiness to others with her work.
Links:
WHYY: "3D artist Stephanie Boateng’s new exhibit features vibrant painted portraits of happy Black women"
DDOA Emerging Artists
Meet the Artist
The Mezzanine Gallery to Exhibit Stephanie Boateng’s “The Sweet Shoppe” from March 3-31