Art Farm’s mission is to support artistic vision, which may be impractical, obscure, and independent of commercial recognition—where failing is no less welcomed than succeeding. To offer artists, writers, performers, and others: studios, time, and resources for pursuing their range of expression, for experimenting, for developing projects, but most of all, for distilling the promise and potential of their creative enterprise, while working and living in a rural environment.
Art Farm's physical presence is in its buildings and land. More elusive to describe is the ambiance—the subtle influence of the environment's impact on time and space. The sun and stars measure your time, not clock and calendar. Space is shaped by proximity to sound and silence. The sky: your eyes: your ears will fill with the sound and shapes of an incredible number of birds and bugs. And, like it or not, the weather will be your collaborator in all undertakings.
Ed Dadey, Director
september 13, 2008
artist and writer residencies
1306 West 21 Road, Marquette, NE 68854-2112, USA
Art Farm is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization registered with the State of Nebraska
All rights reserved © 2009
Saturday, October 25,
1:00 - 7:00 PM
Sunday, October 26,
1:00 - 7:00 PM
Are you someone who thrives in the few pockets of quiet places left in this world, then take a minute, and stroll through some of the other web pages to see if an Art Farm artist residency or writer residency matches your standards. Not every day is peacefully idyllic as frogs make a mighty chorus after rains, migrating geese, ducks and cranes honk and squawk across the sky while the cicadas crank up their shrill at sunset and the basso hymns of the owls keep you company through the night. If this is your first visit here, you missed the deadline for 2009, but if Art Farm seems worth a try, come back in November when applications open again and click on one of the artist or writer residency images, which will be below this text, and jump right to the application form. Not enough yet: well, we will take the whole summer to convince you, so keep checking back to see what is happening or keep jumping ahead to see what you missed...some more>>
2009 Artist Residency Application Forms for Visual Artists
2009 Artist Residency Application Forms for Writers
Last year, an expert panel of residents passed judgment on the new Art Farm refrigerator. This year we’re looking forward to see what the results will be for the septic tank and sewer line project.
You don’t have much interest in fauna and flora; then does something more in mid-air, above the bugs and blossoms, fit your style better? There is ample number of buildings, in various stages of function and completion, from freshly finished to the brink of ruin: yours to use for installations, performances—whatever your theatrical conviction and whatever you can conceive of doing in them, on them, over them or under them: short of destroying them....still more>>
Do you have an inner pioneer yearning to get in touch the source experience of subprime primary existence? It could be your ideal, free of all techno-distractions, fully appointed with outdoor furniture, mud brick conceptualization center. These are just some items from the cafeteria of options you’ll find at Art Farm, with more arriving every day.... <start over
Miruna Dragan surveys the countryside atop one of Art Farm’s barns as she plans her installation.
Cheryl Ratliff takes a break from basic living to soak up some sunshine.
This is not the chaotic representation of civilization’s collapse in which Meredith stands amid, but one of Art Farm’s more elastically organized areas of source materials that she has chosen to surmount and claim for the letterpresses.
Art Farm has finally emerged from winter hibernation and racing head on into projects of higher purpose. For years, too long ago to remain in memory’s capture, Art Farm has collected and stored throughout various buildings, letterpresses and auxiliary equipment found in print shops (state of the art, 1910). Like so many things in life, this equipment, waiting with the stoicism of animals, wondering if anything is ever to be more than life's unfulfilled potential. But, sometimes, suddenly the clouds of despair do part and the sunshine of promise warms the day. Among this year’s resident artists is Meredith, greatest among the mighty and the brave, coming with skills necessary to release these machines from their entombment. She has offered to give physical shape to, of what has only lingered in the shadow of myth, a letterpress/bookmaking residency by organizing a studio and the equipment into a functioning paradise for letterpress printers in 2010.
Do you want to gawk at more of the transformation from distraction to crisp and sparkling perfection that Meredith’s magic brings to this project, then fly over to Facebook and join the Art Farm group. On an erratic schedule over the next two months, we will offer tidbits of info about the letterpress process and equipment as well as photos of the studio’s progress. No need to rush, there is plenty of information here to stumble through before you go....more>>
