Residency Overview
Our mission is to provide the resources and supportive environment emerging artists need to self-direct their artistic growth. Bunker Projects provides an immersive space for living, working, and exhibition alongside intimate cultural programming. By blending production, exhibition, and art interpretation, our programs center the work made by artists from diverse backgrounds in Pittsburgh. Bunker Projects was founded in 2012 by three young women artists eager to continue their community and art practice outside of an university environment. Now located in the heart of the Penn Ave Arts Corridor in Garfield, our organization has since grown into an artist residency, experimental gallery, and online publication.
Application Deadline: May 22nd!
Timeline
Available dates start June 10, 2022 and include months between June-December 2022. Residency duration is flexible depending on the needs of the artist. Recent average residency periods have ranged from 6 weeks to 5 months.
Program Fee
Bunker residencies are now free of charge.
Application Fee
$30
Available Residency Formats
Residencies for who?
Ideal Candidates
Program Goals
Bunker Projects’ residency program is focused on artist’s self-directed practice and pursuing the goals they set for themselves while in dialogue with our unique environment. Our goal is to offer a unique and inspiring place to make new work and immerse in artistic practice. We hope that artists will break new ground in the studio and connect with new people or places while in residence.
Deliverables
Bunker Projects will:
Cooperative Activities
As participating resident artists we ask that you take part in cooperative activities like these as a contribution to the Bunker Projects community:
Offers to present exhibitions are not guaranteed to all residents, particularly to shorter term residencies. Exhibition opportunities will be offered to selected participants depending on artists’ goals and timeline of the residency period.
Bunker Facility
Bunker Projects is located in a 1915 walk-up apartment building on the second and third floors. At this time the facility is not ADA accessible. The space is a mixed use space with living, studio and exhibition space all present in one unit. Shared living spaces include kitchen and bathroom, two gallery rooms and two semi-private studios on the second floor. The third floor hosts two lockable bedrooms. Bunker is a unique space that welcomes public openings and gallery hours 2-3 times a week. There is typically an influx of energy that residents should expect meaning there are busy days and there are quiet days. We are located in an art and small business district in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Our area is very walkable with an Aldi grocery two blocks away and several big box stores including home depot and target about .5 miles down the avenue.
Our mission is to provide the resources and supportive environment emerging artists need to self-direct their artistic growth. Bunker Projects provides an immersive space for living, working, and exhibition alongside intimate cultural programming. By blending production, exhibition, and art interpretation, our programs center the work made by artists from diverse backgrounds in Pittsburgh. Bunker Projects was founded in 2012 by three young women artists eager to continue their community and art practice outside of an university environment. Now located in the heart of the Penn Ave Arts Corridor in Garfield, our organization has since grown into an artist residency, experimental gallery, and online publication.
Application Deadline: May 22nd!
Timeline
Available dates start June 10, 2022 and include months between June-December 2022. Residency duration is flexible depending on the needs of the artist. Recent average residency periods have ranged from 6 weeks to 5 months.
Program Fee
Bunker residencies are now free of charge.
Application Fee
$30
Available Residency Formats
- Local artist studio-residency
- Visiting artist live/work residency
- Co-residency: two artists apply for concurrent residencies
Residencies for who?
- Visual contemporary artists
- Multidisciplinary artists'
- Art Writers
- Curators
Ideal Candidates
- Show readiness and self-motivation in their art practice
- Committed to cultivating a positive / productive residency experience
- Engaged or curious about the Pittsburgh creative community
- Enthusiastic about discussing their art practice
Program Goals
Bunker Projects’ residency program is focused on artist’s self-directed practice and pursuing the goals they set for themselves while in dialogue with our unique environment. Our goal is to offer a unique and inspiring place to make new work and immerse in artistic practice. We hope that artists will break new ground in the studio and connect with new people or places while in residence.
Deliverables
Bunker Projects will:
- Maintain a comfortable, productive artist residency environment
- Help artist navigate and connect with relevant Pittsburgh resources
- Offer consistent bi-weekly meetings with Creative Director that:
- Provide support and accountability to the Artist’s Self-Directed Goal sheet
- Answer practical and logistical questions about living and working at Bunker Projects
- Contributes curatorial dialogue to works created while in residence
- Help to maintain a comfortable, productive artist residency environment
- Participate in a rigorous self-directed studio practice while in residence
- Openly engage and communicate with the Creative Director while in residence
- Work in good-faith alongside co-resident and members of the community who visit the space
- Use the time, space and organizational resources with care, respect and positivity to the best of their capabilities
Cooperative Activities
As participating resident artists we ask that you take part in cooperative activities like these as a contribution to the Bunker Projects community:
- Maintaining clean and respected shared space
- Volunteering for gallery sitting hours when available
- Willingness to co-host an open studio event and welcome patrons and funders into the space. (Some speaking about your goals and practice is encouraged but will be planned based on comfort level and desire of the artist) This is one of the formats that helps us all to tell the story to stakeholders about the value of residency programming.
- Participating in marketing/ social media content (being featured in marketing content created by Bunker team and contributors)
Offers to present exhibitions are not guaranteed to all residents, particularly to shorter term residencies. Exhibition opportunities will be offered to selected participants depending on artists’ goals and timeline of the residency period.
Bunker Facility
Bunker Projects is located in a 1915 walk-up apartment building on the second and third floors. At this time the facility is not ADA accessible. The space is a mixed use space with living, studio and exhibition space all present in one unit. Shared living spaces include kitchen and bathroom, two gallery rooms and two semi-private studios on the second floor. The third floor hosts two lockable bedrooms. Bunker is a unique space that welcomes public openings and gallery hours 2-3 times a week. There is typically an influx of energy that residents should expect meaning there are busy days and there are quiet days. We are located in an art and small business district in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Our area is very walkable with an Aldi grocery two blocks away and several big box stores including home depot and target about .5 miles down the avenue.
