OPEN CALL:Longform 2025 presented by Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency is now accepting scholarship applications and registrations for Longform 2025. This studio-based residency seeks to provide an intensive, creative development experience, fostering deep connections amongst facilitators, visiting artists, and participants. One facilitator, two visiting artists, and a group of residents from any career stage, generation, and practicing any media shape the residency experience through a robust schedule of lectures, readings, studio visits, workshops, critical discussions, and of course, studio time.
This residency is inspired by alternative learning models and low-res academic programs where shared experiences foster fast and lasting connections. Beyond the time & space offered by many residency programs, Ox-Bow and the Longform facilitator, kg, build out thoughtful schedules for the residents including multiple group discussions per week centered around readings and topics selected by the facilitator, studio visits with visiting artists Hope Wang and Nia Easley, workshops led by visiting artists and Ox-Bow staff to encourage the participants to learn a new skills and increase their comfort with our facilities (including the ceramics, print, and metals studios), and the opportunity to present on their work via work share events. While participants are free to choose how they would like to build out their schedule, we hear routinely that the structured nature of the program, as well as the participants’ unobstructed access to our facilities, are among the most cited strengths of the residency.
Registration, Tuition, and Scholarships
Longform will be hosted on Ox-Bow’s campus in Saugatuck, Michigan from September 25–October 16, 2025. Tuition is $5,750 and registration is now open. Reserve your spot here. Each resident receives a studio space, room & board, and three meals per day.
If a participant requires funding to enroll, they are encouraged to apply for a Longform Scholarship. Applications for scholarships are now open and due July 6 by 12:00am EST. They will be reviewed by a panel of diverse arts professionals. Apply for funding here.
If you have questions regarding the Longform program please email our programming team at oxbow@ox-bow.org.
Meet our facilitator
kg (b.1980, Poland) makes weavings and writes poetry from their home studio by the lake in Chicago. kg values the small the domestic and the everyday, situating those politics in their studio and curatorial practices. They have exhibited work nationally and internationally at galleries and art organizations such as, Horse and Pony (Berlin), The Bruce High Quality Foundation (New York), Left Field Gallery (Los Angeles), Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis), Monique Meloche Gallery, Gallery 400, Julius Caesar, The DePaul Art Museum, Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), The John Michael Kohler Art Center (Wisconsin), Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, and a solo exhibition at Hawthorne Contemporary in Milwaukee. kg attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Artist in Residence at Chicago’s print studio, The Donut Shop, and Vermont Studio Center.
Funding for Longform in part by: National Endowment for the Arts, Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, The Seed Scholarship for artists of Caribbean descent, 2024 Winter Break auction and social in support of scholarships for BIPOC artists, and The Efroymson Family Fund.
About Ox-Bow: As an artist-built and run school and residency, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency is dedicated to the creation and preservation of time and space for arts education, research, practice, and community-building for artists at all stages of their artistic journey. Founded in 1910, Ox-Bow’s egalitarian and intimate environment encourages all artists, regardless of experience, to find, amplify, rediscover, and share their impulse to create. Faculty, Visiting Artists, Residents, staff, and students live together in community on our campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, where they share meals, social time, and the exchange of ideas. We actively encourage our participants to engage across differences in age, regional location, race, and gender identity, learning what it means to be a community by participating in one. Ox-Bow is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization.