Artist Calls and Opportunities
Sometimes curated sometimes open call for artist residencies and showings.
freeform
Applications open for 2025 artist residencies
freeform, an artist residency program for 2025, is now accepting applications. Considered on a rolling basis, freeform offers studio space at The Shed for a 3-4 day period with no interuptions. Local Seattle-region artists with complex practices are encouraged to use the time to start something new, develop something more deeply, install an environment or structure, or even put together a showing. You are free to spend the time as you need in order to uncover the practices and forms you desire.
Applications will be considered on an ongoing basis throughout the year in the order they are received, with one residency awarded per month.
Eligibility
Live in or near the Seattle area
Be a working artist who describes themselves as having a complex, multi-disciplinary, or otherwise less than straight-forward process
Go to Application via Jotform
Contact Christin with any questions regarding the application or form.
Curatorial Viewpoint
Statement from Christin Call, Owner and Curator
I acknowledge that a process of selecting artists to receive opportunities also involves selecting from a certain viewpoint. Here is the kind of work that excites me as a curator and the kinds of artists I hope to support and encourage in their artmaking.
Work that involves complex practices
Work that is difficult for others to categorize, seems unwieldy, baroque, or dense with information
Artists who identify as women, BIPOC, or LGBTQ+ and other people whose identities have been historically suppressed
Artists who are robustly experimental
