ARCUS artist residency in Ibaraki

The prefectural government-sponsored ARCUS Project is calling for applications for its 2009 artist-in-residence program. The program runs for three to four months at the end of 2009 and provides artists with a studio, accomodation, round-trip fare (international or from within Japan) and a monthly allowance of 100,000 yen!

In return, artists will be expected to participate in local community and other program activities (including sightseeing!) and produce stunning masterpieces*, or at least be "be positively motivated in conducting artistic research." How hard can it be?

But make your application good and quick—(probably) only two artists will be selected and applications close March 31.

Get the application materials here.


* Actually, this is less an explicit statement by ARCUS and more a loose interpretation by us.