WOC Online Artist Residency Program, Winter 2021/22

The WOC Online Artist Residency is a great opportunity during lockdown to develop a new project or continue working on a previous one, to receive feedback from fellow artists and support to experiment and stay motivated. It provokes dialogue, exchanging ideas, and critical thinking.

As a collaborative program, it is designed to give a chance to communicate across the globe with other artists, to link people from different corners of the planet and to work with them in different ways. The program builds a strong sense of community and artistic collaboration among its participants which lasts after the program ends.

More about the program:

+ Regular meetings and activities throughout the month. Approximately three sessions per week.
+ Weekly live group meetings with fellow artists, focused on your work – discussion and exchange, moderated by WOC team
+ Group critique helping you to conceptualize your art projects hosted by professional artist
+ Workshops and seminars hosted by international artists
+ Building an effective online presence as an artist. Individual advices on your social media channels and website moderated by the WOC web and graphic designer
+ Internal meetups and discussions with previous WOC artists
+ Social media PR campaigns for each artist, on channels such as Facebook and Instagram
+ Exhibit your project in our online gallery at the end of the residency program
+ Presenting you on World of Co website and blog
+ Become part of our international artist network, consisting of more than 200 artists across the globe
+ Receive an official certificate of participation

Since 2017, the team of World of Co has been hosting artist residency in Sofia, Bulgaria. Until now more than 200 artists (https://worldof.co/artistsinresidency/) took part in our programs. In a friendly and supportive atmosphere, we helped them to continue growing, experimenting and improving themselves as artists. Meanwhile, since the beginning of the pandemic, we gave birth to an online residency program in order to help the international artist community to stay connected and be creative.

Duration of residency

You can apply for one-month or two-month residency programs. In order to get a full experience of the program, we suggest you participate in the two monthly program. 

Every residency program starts on the 5th day of the month and finishes on the 30th. All of the activities are held in the conference software Zoom.Before the beginning of the program, the World of Co team will send you the monthly schedule with all of the activities and Zoom links. Every schedule is created considering the different time zones of the participants, in other the timing to be suitable for everybody.

Disciplines

The program is open to emerging and mid-career artists, curators, art researchers, and creatives from all around the world.

Note: World of Co will provide you with necessary documents if you are applying for scholarship or funding.

Deadline

Apply for the WOC Online Artist Residency until November 25th 2021 on the following link : https://worldof.co/apply/