This application is for prospective artists to apply for either the Public Art & Muralist and Touring Roster.

Artists currently on artists rosters must complete the Roster Artist Active Standing Form to indicate active status and remain listed on the rosters. This is done via a separate form attached to your original roster artist application. Current roster artists do not need to complete this application. Please refer to the current Touring Roster and Public Artist Roster for active listings.
 

For complete guidelines on inclusion to the KAC Artist Rosters: Click Here
 

INTENT: To promote Kansas artists and ensure that every Kansas community has access to high quality arts programming.

DESCRIPTION

Touring Roster: The Kansas Arts Commission maintains an approved Touring Roster of Kansas-based touring companies and artists. In this program, the artist or artist's management sets the fee and negotiates the booking. Applicants must have a history of touring and maintain a reasonable fee range. Roster artists are required to perform outside their community regularly. Touring artists offer single performances/programs as well as optional services that may include workshops, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, interactive performances, arts education components, residencies, or short performances. The fact that an artist is approved to the roster does not imply or guarantee that the artist will receive bookings in the coming year. If you are an artist, becoming a Kansas Touring Artist helps you to be found by presenters and connects you to the community of other roster artists.

Public Artist & Muralist Roster: The Kansas Arts Commission maintains an approved Roster of Kansas-based artists working specifically on public art and mural projects. Applicants for this roster must have a history of community engaged public work and maintain a reasonable fee range. Roster artists are required to work outside their community regularly. Artists will work on public projects as well as provide optional services that may include workshops, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, arts education components, residencies, or short performances.

APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY: Kansas-based nonprofits, individuals, universities, and unincorporated/for-profit groups providing arts performances and experiences in any artistic discipline. 

PROJECT CRITERIA

Touring Roster Applicants must:

· Be experienced, high quality artists with a professional reputation;

· Touring Roster Artists provide public performances or presentations of their work;

· Touring Roster Artists are able to provide meaningful educational activities with students (including, but not limited to, interactive performances, master classes, workshops, lectures) and/or provide quality complementary activities with additional community populations (including, but not limited to, demonstrations, interactive performances, panel discussions, workshops, lectures);

· Be willing to tour at least 2 Kansas communities at least 60 miles outside of their home base.

Public Art & Muralist Applicants must:

· Be experienced, high quality artists with a professional reputation;

· Be willing to travel to Kansas communities at least 60 miles outside of their home base.

*Please read the full description of requirements and awards for the residency before continuing to the application.*


Program Description: The Tallgrass Artist Residency is a unique program that offers individual artists/artist teams time and space to retreat and research in a rural, tallgrass prairie setting. Though the experience is rural, it is not meant to be isolating. Artists are provided lodging at Matfield Station in the small community of Matfield Green, Kansas — 20 miles from Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and home to a growing number of artists and community builders. Learn more on our website.

Commitments:
 • Residencies are offered in two-week (10 night) periods between April and September. Residency periods must occur in consecutive ten night blocks.
 • Residents are expected to give a public program during this two-week period, and will be asked to contribute documentation of their experience through daily Instagram posts and a post-residency summary of their experience for the website (read Written Reflections on artists’ pages).
 • Residents are also expected to be prepared to participate in a group exhibition and artist symposium in Matfield Green on Saturday, October 4, 2025 (lodging provided)
 • Residents are required to make their own arrangements for transportation to and from the residency. Due to our rural setting, it's essential for visitors to have their own reliable method of transportation.
 • Residents are responsible for their own food, but cooking and eating utensils are available in all rooms.


Awards:
 • Artists will be provided 10 nights of lodging at Matfield Station during residency period.    
 • Artists will be connected with staff at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and may be granted special access, upon request.   
 • Each artist will receive a $650 stipend from KCAIC for travel and material reimbursement to be awarded after residencies are completed.  

• Ecoregion Exchange artists traveling from 700+ miles away receive an extra travel stipend
 • Artists will be provided lodging for up to two nights in or near Matfield Green during closing events in October.   
 • Reimbursement funding, within reason, will be available for shipping artwork to and from group exhibition, as needed.


Who Can Apply:  This residency seeks to create connection and conversation across the Great Plains by  cultivating opportunities for artists/artist teams who currently live in a place that is ecologically considered prairie (← click the link to see a general map of this area). However, we also have one dedicated residency period for an artist/artist team outside of the prairie ecoregion, treated as an "ecoregion exchange".

 Ideal applicants will have a strong body of work with a unique voice or perspective, a self-driven dedication to learning through place, and an interest in participating in a contemporary dialogue. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and career levels, media and practice. We're not currently accepting applications from previous artists-in-residence in the program or international residents.  **Because of our rural setting, having your own transportation during the residency is essential**

Applications are due by October 31, 2024 at 11:59pm with notification by December 15, 2024.
For further questions, you can email the Tallgrass Artist Residency team at : tallgrass.art@gmail.com


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