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Wave Farm: 2025 Residencies and Fellowships on ‘A Radio Art Hour’ (USA, Online)

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Wave Farm welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers, from a variety of disciplines to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking work and prioritises the uniquely urgent and intimate nature of the radio medium.

Applicants should deeply consider the distinctive qualities of FM radio as opposed to online radio and/or podcasts. This is an opportunity open to international applicants. Women, gender non-conforming people, and people of colour are encouraged to apply.

Artists-in-residence will spend 10-days on-site at Wave Farm (Acra, NY) developing a new 55-minute radio artwork designed explicitly for terrestrial radio broadcast on Wave Farm’s creative community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears. Their radio artwork will also be included in Wave Farm’s weekly syndicated programme The Radio Art Hour. A stipend of 1,000 USD will be provided to each resident artist. In 2025, residencies will be offered monthly, May to October.

Radio Art Fellows will dedicate a month-long remote engagement researching and selecting radio artworks by historical and contemporary artists to comprise an episode of the The Radio Art Hour. Fellowships will commence with a brief, in-person visit to Wave Farm, and are awarded in three categories: Research, Community Engagement, and Arts Writing. The Research Fellow will create an additional, second episode of The Radio Art Hour, the Community Engagement Fellow will conceptualise and conduct a public workshop, and the Arts Writing Fellow will produce writing informed by interviews with past Wave Farm Artists-in-residence about the Transmission Art genre for publication in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (University of California Press). Fellowship Mentors: Jay Needham, Neil Verma, and Gregory Whitehead will be available for consultation, leads, and feedback. A stipend of 2,000 USD will be provided to each fellow. In 2025, fellowships will be offered in April, November, December.

Residents and Fellows are housed in the Wave Farm Study Centre, which hosts one artist-in-residence or fellow at a time, or on occasion, more than one individual working as a collaborative duo or collective. Residents and Fellows must pay for their own travel expenses, however, an advance of the artist fee or fellowship stipend can be made available on a case-by-case basis to help offset travel expenses.

The Rising Tide Award, of an additional 1,500 USD will be awarded to a single resident (for artists with special circumstances that require additional funds such as: parents, artists from out of state/country, collaborators, and artists with non-traditional art/career experiences).

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