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Restoration Residencies
Restoring New Orleans One Artist At A Time
 As our response to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, A Studio in the Woods has created eight four-week residencies during February 2006-January for New Orleans visual artists, musicians, composers, writers and performing artists who have lost their homes, studios and/or work in the hurricane and are either displaced in other cities and communities or back home in New Orleans without resources.
Residencies provide lodging, food, studio space and uninterrupted time in the rustic, natural setting in a bottomland hardwood forest on the West Bank of New Orleans. Also provided are transportation costs to and from New Orleans and within the city and a $2000 stipend.
A Studio in the Woods is providing these residencies because thousands of persons have evacuated from New Orleans, including hundreds of musicians, artists, writers, and performers who have lost homes and studios. Many artists yearn to come home, reconnect with colleagues, get into studios and quiet writing, composing and art-making spaces to restore themselves and others through the art they love. And this gravely wounded city and its remaining residents struggling with exhaustion, despair, loss and uncertainty need the artists to come home. We need the visual arts, music, writing and theater that can help us to process this human disaster, restore our spirits and provide the vision necessary for all of us to build an enlightened, resurgent and beautiful city.
Artists and musicians must have residency (or had residency and intend to return) in the New Orleans metropolitan area. Residents from Orleans Parish are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants must be serious artists, active in their discipline even though circumstances may force them to earn a living in other ways, or earning a living through their artistic talents. Artists at all stages of their career are equally eligible; students however, are not eligible.
A multidisciplinary jury of artists and community members will judge applicants on the following criteria:
- What is the need based on the degree of Katrina related loss and current circumstances.
- The creativeness and integrity of the proposal for work at ASITW.
- Seriousness of purpose
- Quality of artwork
- How does the proposed work help our community process this human disaster? How will the proposed work aid in the restoration of New Orleans?
Restoration Residencies are supported in part by many generous individual donations, The Ford Foundation, the Alliance of Artists Communities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Howard Read of the Cheim & Read Gallery and Allen Gerson of the Art and Artists Restoration Fund.
For more information on Restoration Residencies please see application form below or call 504-392-5359. To help make these residencies possible and support the work of scientists and artists studying the hurricane aftermath in the woods please make a donation by check made out to Friends of A Studio in the Woods and mail to ASITW, 13401 River Rd., New Orleans, LA 70131.
 Download Restoration Residency Application (Sept 2007)
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