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Sample-Studios/San Francisco Artist Studios Residency Exchange

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Sample-Studios/San Francisco Artist Studios Residency Exchange

June 11 - July 4, 2025
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In Summer 2025, Sample-Studios are delighted to host an 8-day residency by SFAS members in Cork. In exchange, SFAS will host an 8-day residency by Sample-Studios members in San Francisco. The residencies will include provision of spaces for individual work, group work and engaging with the wider member/artistic community. The residents have been facilitated in a series of preparatory online workshops in advance. Residents will have the opportunities to engage in site visits to arts organisations during their visit and guest lecturer/facilitator or peer learning sessions to inform their work.

This residency is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland International Residencies Scheme and Cork City Council Twinning Cities Grant.

 

Context

In 2021, Sample-Studios Cork and San Francisco Artist Studios formed a new partnership with the support of Cork City Council’s Twinned Cities Scheme to deliver a transatlantic online professional development and peer learning programme for our members, which would support artists on both sides of the Atlantic to upskill and be resilient in the face of shared challenges. This now annual programme includes a series of Group Crits whereby members present about their work and are offered constructive feedback from their peers. The programme has included professional development workshops which explore topics pertinent to artists in Cork and San Francisco, delivered by both Irish and American tutors. The latest programme deepened connections between our memberships, supported their creative practices through shared skills development and demonstrated the potential of in-person engagement. In Spring 2024, to mark the 40th anniversary of Cork and San Francisco being Twinned Cities, we presented a group exhibition of the San Francisco Artist Studios in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion. SFAS Artists Nate Mahoney and Emily Eunnuri Lee Dobbs travelled to Cork for the exhibition and gave artist talks. This was also an opportunity for our members to meet them, discuss their work and to show them arts organisations throughout Cork.

In Summer 2025, Sample-Studios are delighted to host an 8-day residency by SFAS members in Cork. In exchange, SFAS will host an 8-day residency by Sample-Studios members in San Francisco. The residencies will include provision of spaces for individual work, group work and engaging with the wider member/artistic community. The residents have been facilitated in a series of preparatory online workshops in advance. Residents will have the opportunities to engage in site visits to arts organisations during their visit and guest lecturer/facilitator or peer learning sessions to inform their work.

This residency is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland International Residencies Scheme and Cork City Council Twinning Cities Grant.

 

Context

In 2021, Sample-Studios Cork and San Francisco Artist Studios formed a new partnership with the support of Cork City Council’s Twinned Cities Scheme to deliver a transatlantic online professional development and peer learning programme for our members, which would support artists on both sides of the Atlantic to upskill and be resilient in the face of shared challenges. This now annual programme includes a series of Group Crits whereby members present about their work and are offered constructive feedback from their peers. The programme has included professional development workshops which explore topics pertinent to artists in Cork and San Francisco, delivered by both Irish and American tutors. The latest programme deepened connections between our memberships, supported their creative practices through shared skills development and demonstrated the potential of in-person engagement. In Spring 2024, to mark the 40th anniversary of Cork and San Francisco being Twinned Cities, we presented a group exhibition of the San Francisco Artist Studios in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion. SFAS Artists Nate Mahoney and Emily Eunnuri Lee Dobbs travelled to Cork for the exhibition and gave artist talks. This was also an opportunity for our members to meet them, discuss their work and to show them arts organisations throughout Cork.

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