Fayoum Art Center Residency Program

Introduction

The Fayoum Arts Center is established since 2006, located in Fayoum, a beautiful oasis south-west of Cairo that enjoys a country side aspect and a desert one; an inspiring environment for creativity.

Away from the culturally saturated capital Cairo, the Center is launching a new residency program The Fayoum Arts Center Residency Program (FACRP) for artists from all over the globe. FACRP aims to create an adequate creative environment for all the resident visual artists, performers, musicians, and writers. There is no age nor nationality restrictions, the Center  is offering six rooms for residency, two well-equipped studio spaces,  a common big kitchen and a big outdoor space.

The program is designed to provide residents from all different arts and culture disciplines the opportunity, the space and time to create, to experiment, to develop their practices and to reconnect and get inspired by the unique nature of Fayoum.

Residency Program Description

All visual, performing artists, musicians, and writers from the international, the regional and local scenes are invited to apply. The international established artists as well as emerging artists coming from all disciplines of culture: the applicant has to send his application with the required supplements by email only, mentioning the dates that he/ she wish to apply for.

The application, letter of intention and work samples will be reviewed by a committee which will select projects according to their relativity to the unique nature and environment of the Oasis and their potentiality to make the project with the facilities and the expertise of the Fayoum Arts Center.

Duration

The residency call for application is running all over the year. There is no deadline for receiving residency applications. Although the interested applicant has to apply his residency requests two months ahead,

The Residency program is held during nine months through the year
From April to June
From September to Jan
Residency duration that the applicant can apply for, is minimum one week and maximum three months

Residency Fee
The Fayoum Center Arts Residency Program (FACRP) does not have neither governmental nor private support, hence can’t offer grants at this moment. The Residency fee (25$ per day) covers a full accommodation, in addition of the usage of the entire center facilities and spaces. The FACRP is not responsible of the travel nor the transportation of the resident.

We encourage selected residents to apply for grants or sponsors in their origin countries or to any international/ regional/local grant programs. We can provide applicant with invitation letters to cooperate with artists' necessary fund raising.

Residency results
The resident artists will be asked by the end of his residency period, to give a presentation and/or a talk about his project produced during his residency in the Fayoum arts Center, in addition of leaving a sample of the work produced. An annual exhibition will be held for the ensemble of the projects produced and developed during the year.

Required supplements

1. Application form
2. Sample of previous work (from 3 to 5 work samples)
3. Letter of Intention
4. Personal Resume or CV

How to Apply
Send application form signed and all supplements by email to the Program manager
resfayoum@gmail.com

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