>>> APPLICATIONS OPEN NOVEMBER 1st <<<

Solo Show & Residency Fellowship  2027

+ 2-3 Weeks Residency in Southern Vermont at In Situ Polyculture Commons

+ Fall Solo Exhibition at Field Projects Gallery

+ $1500 stipend

>>> APPLICATIONS OPEN NOVEMBER 1st <<<

Deadline : March 14th, 2027, 11:59pm ETS

This opportunity includes a 2-3 week art residency in Vermont in summer 2027, plus a solo exhibition in NYC in fall 2027 for an individual artist OR a collaborative group of up to 4 people, and a stipend of $1500 to be used as the artist(s) sees fit.

FP & ISPC are two artist-run organizations who have created a fellowship opportunity that we would want, and that helps each of us further our missions to platform artists doing and making important creative work for our times.

Candidates for this opportunity may include, but are not limited to;

• An individual artist or collaborative group with an established practice in their medium who is developing a new body of work in that medium or a related medium.

• An artist or collaborative group with a proposed, in-progress project or body of work that would benefit from time in retreat and productive residency in preparation for an exhibition.

• An artist or collaborative group who has been impacted, neglected or rejected due to politicization of identity, political or social marginalization, loss of funding / exhibition opportunities due to current events, etc.

• An artist or collaborative group with experimental or novel conceptual approaches to our social, ecological, or political moment.

*Collaborative groups may be trans-academic, independent researchers, visual artists + other fields, etc. Artists and their inter-disciplinary collaborators apply with a single application. Groups of up to 4 people may be hosted at the residency at the same time.

Ideal projects;

• May be of any media as long as it includes a strong visual art component for the exhibition.

• An in-progress project or body of work that would benefit from time in retreat and productive residency in preparation for an exhibition.

• May make a strong statement about our times.

• Involve a strong visual art component, but may also include writing & poetry, performance, research (independent, academic, scientific, or else). The work done at residency does not need to be the visual component, but the exhibition must make sense hosted in a visual art gallery such as Field Projects.

• May involve immersive installation or experimental work

FYI;

• Artists with a portfolio and history of solo creative work may absolutely apply with a new collaborative project in mind, but will need to demonstrate their collaborative relationship and have a proposal / vision for executing the exhibition

• FP & ISPC are supportive of artists’ process and understand that awardee’s proposal / vision for their residency and exhibition MAY change, which we encourage! The timeline and awarded residency & exhibition period must be completed if accepted, and changes communicated with directors.

• This opportunity is open to artists who are parents— partners, childcare supporters and children are welcome at the residency in Vermont, please communicate ages and specific needs of those who would accompany you as non-collaborative companions.

• Collaborative groups of up to 4 may apply with a single application & attend the residency simultaneously. All or most of the collaborators should plan to attend the residency and the installation / opening reception for their solo show. Certain collaborators may be offsite in some cases, when that makes sense:

  >>>Acceptable Examples: 

  • 2 filmmakers attend residency— their cinematographer joins for 1 week only and cannot join for the exhibition, their video editor is offsite for the entire duration, but the filmmakers themselves attend the residency and exhibition.

  • An artist attends the residency with or without their fabricator, or travels to a fabricator after the residency to resolve work before the exhibition, but attends the solo show by themselves. 

  *If you have questions about your scenario, please reach out to Candace hello@insitupolyculture.org before applying!

Notes about the curatorial perspective;

• At Field Projects (FP), we want to platform work that makes strong political statements, immersive installation & experimental work 

• In Situ Polyculture Commons (ISPC) embraces place-based and context-aware [read collapse-aware] modalities— ecology-interested work. This does not mean that applicants need to identify as “environmental artists.”

Important Dates & Details:

Application opens Sunday, November 1st, 2026.

• Application is FREE from Sunday, November 1st, 2026 - Sunday, November 15th, 2026.

• Application fee is $25 from Monday, November 16th, 2026 - December 31st, 2026.

• Application fee is $45 from January 1st, 2027 - March 14th, 202

• We do not intend to extend the deadline.

You may opt-in to apply for a non-fellowship residency session at ISPC for the 2027 season, in the event that you are not selected for the Fellowship opportunity. Your application will be considered alongside ISPC’s regular Open Call applicants.

• Video-interviews for 5 semi-finalists will be scheduled in late March and early April 2027. 

• Awardees will be notified in early April.

• Residency Session window: July 1st thru August 31st, 2027.

• *Artist can choose their best arrival / departure dates at the residency within their window, for anywhere from 2-3 weeks. In Situ is happy to be flexible for artists, whose calendars are often managed tyrannically by institutional calendar preferences. 

• Solo Exhibition: September 9th - October 16th, 2027. 

• Opening reception: Choose either Thursday, September 9th or Thursday, September 16th 

• *Opening reception date preference will determine 5 or 6 week exhibition duration, and is up to the artist based on their travel and availability. Exhibition dates are firm.

Resources included in Fellowship:

• 2-3 week residency in S. VT at In Situ Polyculture includes ample studio space & accommodations in a bucolic setting with access to a full kitchen for self-catering

• Solo exhibition in NYC at Field Projects Space

• Stipend: $1500 to be used as the artist sees fit

• Studio visit with Jacob Rhodes for exhibition planning / installation support. (In-person in NYC metro area, remote meeting if further afield).

• Pre-installation preparatory support at residency (ex: preparation of cleats for hanging panels, packing work safely for transport to gallery, etc).

• Installation support at Field Projects 

• Field Projects & ISPC co-host exhibition reception

  *See Below for detailed residency facilities descriptions

Awardee responsible for:

• Any travel to and from residency and gallery

• Attending the residency

• Grocery / self-catering expenses at residency (Kitchen is well stocked with staples)

• Participating / working with Field Projects to install the show

• Exhibiting at Field Projects

• Donating 2 small works, one for the residency & one for the gallery collections

Jurors: 

• Candace Jensen (Creative Director & Cofounder, In Situ Polyculture)

• Jacob Rhodes (Founder & Director, Field Projects)

• Melissa Joseph (Artist, Curator & Writer, Member of the Board of Directors at In Situ Polyculture)

Bios for Jurors:

• Candace Jensen is cofounder and Creative Director of In Situ Polyculture Commons, an arts residency and regenerative culture catalyst. She also serves as Book Arts & Letterpress Director at Ruth Stone House in Goshen, VT and Art Editor for their poetry & art quarterly, Iterant Magazine. She lives and works on unceded Abenaki land in Southern Vermont, Turtle Island. 

  
  www.insitupolyculture.org / iterant.org / www.candacejensen.com 

  
  A multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, calligrapher, curator and organizer, Jensen’s work is grounded in animism, deep ecology, and building creative community. Her curatorial projects have focused primarily on ecological and social justice frameworks, and been exhibited in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Southern Vermont. She both exhibited in and curated through Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2018-2024. Jensen has also shown her work in New York, San Francisco & Oakland, Antwerp, Southern Vermont and Hillsborough, NC. She currently shows with Orcas Paley in Seattle, WA, and independently throughout Vermont and New England. Reviews and interviews have appeared in Whitehot Magazine, Art New England, the Adroit Journal, Ante Mag and Studio Visit Magazine. Her art and writing have been published by the Dark Mountain Project, Index Press Quarterly, Eratio Postmodern, Iterant Mag, the Earthkeepers' Handbook (ecoartspace), the Cambridge Writers’ Worskhop via the University Press of Kentucky, and a special issue of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, an open-access, double anonymous peer-reviewed journal.

  
  

• Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist. Her work considers themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a second generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Arlington, ICA San Francisco, and List Gallery at Swarthmore College. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Artnet, Artnews, New American Paintings, WNYC, Le Monde, Vogue, CNN, Whitewall, Family Style, and participated in residencies including Artpace, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, The Textile Arts Center, BRIC, Fountainhead, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design and upcoming at Greenwich House Pottery. She is the recipient of the 2025 UOVO Prize and a regular contributor to BOMB Magazine.

  www.melissajoseph.net

• Jacob Rhodes is the Co-Founder/Director of Field Projects (est. 2011), one of a very few artist-run spaces in Chelsea, NYC. Focusing on creating opportunities for artists, Rhodes has fostered a community through open call exhibitions, art fairs, artist residencies, podcasts, magazines, and recently an annual Summer outdoor sculpture exhibition. Rhodes has curated exhibitions in various venues, including MoMa, NY, MoMa, Arlington, VA, Museum of Sex, NY, Material, CDMX, Volta, NY, SPRING/BREAK, NY, Driscoll Babcock Gallery, NY, C24 Gallery, NY.

  Rhodes holds a MFA from Yale, BFA from Otis College of Art, and has attended Skowhegan Residency, as well as the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum.

Info about the Residency  

Where is it Location? In Situ Polyculture is located just outside of the village of Saxtons River, VT. We are 12 minutes drive from the Bellows Falls Amtrak station (with direct service to NYC Penn Station), 35 minutes drive North from Brattleboro, VT, 4-ish hours drive North from NYC. 

Amtrak from Penn Station NYC to Bellows Falls is approximately 5:30 and runs daily.

How long is the stay?:  2-3 weeks within your designated residency window

What exactly are the accommodations: 

Check out our facilities page here!

Notes about accessibility and facility descriptions here

Off-grid Yurts 

provide a serene live-work space with comfortable bed (all linens included). 1-2 people per yurt, for collaborations.

Folks should be comfortable walking on woodland and grassy pathways that are maintained but may have some uneven footing. Yurts are not wheelchair accessible but are navigable for folx with canes or similar walking aids.

Art media in yurts are limited to “no-mess” — Watercolor, pencil, fiber-work and small non-heated metal, basketry. Anything that can be swept up with simple broom and dustpan, or wiped down with a moist rag.

Kitchen & Bath

Kitchen with all appliances and tools necessary for baking, cooking and food prep. Many staples are stocked such as basic spices, dry goods and maple syrup. Includes wifi, access to washer and dryer, and an indoor bathroom and shower. These facilities are shared amongst all simultaneous residents.

The Art Barn & The Commons

Approx. 800’ square feet of flexible studio space with garden access includes 10’-high moveable studio walls, studio sink and composting toilet. Studio has concrete floors.

A spacious 600 sq ft hayloft salon with pine floors, tea and coffee and comfortable tables and chairs for writing, reading, planning and napping. 

Air conditioned / heated space. Yoga mats and blocks, loads of cool books, a guitar and Adirondack chairs compliment the space.

Also: 10 acres of meadow and woodland to explore, move, make artwork in and rest in, in a bucolic setting. We have a campfire ring, gorgeous stars, and a beautiful viewing deck from which to sunbathe, work, or enjoy the view!

Media

Media is not limited in the Art Barn, however we do not have infrastructure for metal working or an established wood shop. We encourage the use of ecologically mindful materials, reduction or elimination of plastics and polymers, etc, as well as foraging with reciprocal, responsible practices, and the use of found objects.

In Situ cofounder Owen Schuh is available to support in any small woodworking needs, or to help make occasional saw cuts. 

Media that fare well at In Situ Polyculture: Installation, painting, drawing, dancing, curatorial, writing, performance, acoustic music, found sculpture, clay (no firing facilities but pit-fire and self-made garden kilns are welcome), “kichen-table” printmaking, cyanotype, photography, research, navigation, social practice, botanical & earth mineral based practice, pigment work

While we do not have dark-room or printmaking facilities, we do have local resources & partners that can enable these media. We would be happy to help our residents make the connections to access these:

Vermont Center for Photography: https://vcphoto.org/