SESSION DATES: July 20 to August 4

EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE:

February 17, 2020

Arrivals are on July 20, after 1:00 PM and before 3:00 PM, with departure on August 4 before 11:00 AM.

To see last year’s schedule click here for last years artists click here.

The FAC residency will gather artists together who focus on social justice issues such as rape culture, transphobia, racism, ableism, ageism, media representation, cultural appropriation, environmental degradation and impact on Indigenous lands, gender-based violence, and Islamophobic policies. We aim to create a space that is positive, celebratory, intellectually engaging and provocative. We are committed to this space being trans-inclusive, anti-racist, and intersectional. The residency will include individual studio time accented with group discussions, communal dinners, film, guest speakers, group and individual critiques and trips into Toronto for gallery tours and relevant events. The resulting residency work will be presented in a community exhibition at the end of the two weeks.

SUBMISSION DETAILS: The FAC art residency invites multidisciplinary artists from various practices such as literature, dance, video art, visual arts, theatre, design, makers, music, comic arts. We strongly encourage artists who experience multiple forms of oppression to apply: artists with disabilities, Black, Indigenous, people of colour, two-spirit folks, queer, trans and non-binary / gender-nonconforming people. The cost for the 14 days is $1450 + HST for private accommodation or $1250+ HST for shared. The fee includes your sleeping quarters, a large shared studio space, programmed facilitation with guest speakers and critiques, group activities, excursions, and a final exhibition with a reception. If chosen, a 50% deposit will be due on March 30 and the final payment will be due before arrival.

SPECIAL NOTE: FAC is a volunteer-run organization and as such does not have scholarships or subsidies to offer for the residency. The residency fees will be used to pay visiting artists, workshop leaders, and facilitators. However, many of our past residency artists have been successful in attaining grants and funding from institutions in their countries. Extensive letters of support can be provided by FAC for these purposes.

TESTIMONIALS FROM 2019 RESIDENCY ARTISTS

“Working at the FAC expanded my idea of how we can make work as artists. Not only did it connect me with talented creators from disciplines outside my own, it connected me to nature when I needed it most. I am so grateful for the time I spent there.”
-Shanda Bezic

"I loved taking part in the FAC residency on Toronto Island. It was a very special two weeks in an idyllic setting that focused around art-making, deep conversations, new ideas and exploration. I'm super thankful for the opportunity the residency provided to share space and time with rad feminist artists from all over the world. Thanks FAC!"
-Vanessa Crosbie Ramsay

“Attending the FAC residency in 2019 on Toronto Island was such an eye-opening and enriching experience. It felt like a retreat. Being surrounded by amazing artists from various disciplines and backgrounds was instrumental to my practice and self-development. I felt challenged and humbled. I learned so much about how one can address feminist issues given the socio-political context we each experience.”
-Claudia Pharès

“The FAC Residency was a gift of infinitely precious time, studio space, and community. The writing I did during the residency is imbued with a magic that I will always be trying to return to.”
-Jody Chan

Submissions will be accepted until the December 2 deadline. Please label attachments with your name and the name of the file (e.g. Artist Name_Bio). Email submissions to torontofac@gmail.comwith subject line Feminist Art Residency AGP.

1. 250-500 bio and bio photo for the FAC website. In your bio include a statement on how you politically self-identify. 

2. Website link (if available) or 5 JPEGS / video links / or PDF of current written work. 

3. Letter of intent (250-500 words) for your work plans at the residency. 

4. In your letter of intent indicate if you are applying for a private or shared space.

5. If you have an accessibility item to share, please indicate this in your letter of intent.

Facilitator

Jennifer McKinley (she/her) is a cis writer and theatre artist from Toronto (Tkaranto). She is an intersectional feminist and fourth generation settler of mixed European and African American ancestry. In her art practice, she centres herself as subject and uses dark humour to explore themes of history, memory, grief, horror, injustice, intergenerational trauma, and the uncanny.

A coordinator with the Feminist Art Collective since its inception, Jennifer is particularly proud of her work as the project manager for the digitization of the Women’s Kit, a feminist educational resource published by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in the 1970s. 

She was one of the co-artistic directors of Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival (2014-2017) and she produced Jacqueries, Part One (Jacob Niedzwiecki/SummerWorks), which received the Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation. In 2017, Jennifer debuted her full-length, solo dark comedy, Operation SUNshine, at the Toronto Fringe Festival, and remounted it at the Storefront Theatre’s Feminist F*ck It Festival. 

Jennifer is a graduate of University of Toronto (Hon. BA, History and English), Humber College (Certificate, Comedy: Writing and Performance), and the Second City Training Centre (Improvisation Conservatory). She has studied clown and physical theatre, and recently attended the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Emerging Writers Intensive for Creative Nonfiction. Her writing is included in the anthology Stories We Don’t Tell.