Call for Curators Members’ Program: Fire Station Artists’ Studios
Dear Call for Curators Members,
Join us on Thursday, September 23 at 6.30pm Berlin time for our next Members’ Program with Jennie Guy, Manager of Programs and Operations at Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin.
Jennie will discuss the current open call for Fire Station Artists’ Studios International Curator Residency, which provides contemporary international curators with a space to live, work and network in Dublin. You can find the full details of the open call here.
Call for Curators Members’ Program:
Fire Station Artists’ Studios: International Curator Residency
Thursday, September 23
6.30pm Berlin time
The Fire Station Artists’ Studios (FSAS) International Curator Residency aims to develop arts practice and arts ecology considerations both nationally in Ireland and internationally. Through these residencies, which can last from one week to a month, FSAS aims to build links and foster collaborations between Irish artists, curators, art institutions and their artistic peers internationally. This residency program provides opportunities for international curators to familiarise themselves with the Irish visual arts scene, undertake research and make connections. Respective curators deliver a public talk, take part in FSAS community events, write a follow-up evaluation documenting their residency and receive a €300 stipend.
Located in the northeast of Dublin’s city centre, Fire Station Artists’ Studios was established in 1993 to support professional visual artists. It provides ten subsidised combined living and working studios for Irish and international artists, as well as large scale sculpture workshop facilities for day hire. In addition, FSAS provides digital media and sculpture making facilities and equipment, and a project or meeting room space, as well as courses for artists combining the practical with the theoretical. A key policy of FSAS is to support socially engaged arts practice and critique through art commissions, talks and publications.
Jennie Guy is the manager of program and operations at Fire Station Artists’ Studios. A key objective of this role is ensuring the vibrancy and relevance of the artistic program, nationally and internationally, for artists both living and working in FSAS, as well as those artists using FSAS resources. Jennie works independently as a curator and artist and has recently published Curriculum, an edited volume of thirteen essays focused on the Art School curatorial platform that was published by Intellect Books in September 2020. She is the recipient of an Arts Council Visual Arts Curatorial Bursary (2021).
