RED CINDER CREATIVITY CENTER
Where Ideas Catch Fire on the Big Island of Hawai'i
Helen Chellin, Director
Mainland Address:
243 Jersey Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Phone: 415 821 6694
Fax: 415 648 8131
Island Address:
P.O. Box 527
Na'ahelu, HI 96772
Phone: 808 929 9600
Caretakers, Patty and Drake Fujimoto
Phone: 808 929 8426
APPLICATION FOR VISITING ARTIST PROGRAM
FEE: $25 U.S. payable with application
See application guidelines before completing this form.
CATEGORY: Choreography _
Literature _
Music _
Visual arts _
Media arts/new genre _
Is this a collaboration? Yes _ No _
COLLABORATORS' NAMES (if yes):______________________________________
NOTE: Each collaborator must fill out a separate application form
and send fee of $25.
APPLICANT'S NAME:______________________________________
FEMALE _ MALE _
Address: _______________________________________
City: __________________________________________
State/Zip: _____________________________________
Day phone: _____________________________________
Evening phone: _________________________________
Fax: ___________________________________________
E-mail: ________________________________________
Driver's License # _________________ State _____
DATE OF BIRTH: _________________________________
PLACE OF BIRTH: ________________________________
CITIZENSHIP:____________________________________
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:_____________________________
PREFERRED DATES AT RED CINDER: __________________
Briefly describe a project on which you may wish to work. Include a
short description of how you usually conceive and develop your work.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: List any needs for living accommodations, work
space, and/or equipment during your residency. (Red Cinder may not
be able to accommodate all requests.)
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: List and date three professional
achievements that you consider to be the most important in your life
as a creative artist (e.g., published works, performances, awards,
recordings, exhibitions, lectures, etc.)
In signing this application, I understand that this residency
program is designed as a retreat experience for me to pursue
creative work and to live in a small community of artists. In the
spirit of the program, if selected, I would plan to commit myself to
the experience for the entire stay, and agree to arrive and depart
according to the program's schedule.
SIGNATURE____________________________________________
DATE________________
APPLICATION GUIDELINES
Application responses must be in English and printed or typewritten.
Make sure you have completed all the requested data and have
included all required materials. Please refer to the attached
checklist before final submission. Receipt of application will be
acknowledged only by return of your enclosed postcard. Red Cinder
cannot be held responsible for items lost in the mail.
COLLABORATIONS: Artists who wish to apply as collaborators on a
specific project need to send individual fees, applications,
résumés, and documentation in a single envelope. Include a separate
page describing the collaborative proposal. Please let us know if
you still want to be considered even if your collaborator is not
accepted into the program.
CHOREOGRAPHY APPLICANTS: Choreographers may request to have up to
two dancers in residence. This must be noted on the back of the
application form under special requirements. One extra bedroom is
provided for this purpose. Additional dancers up to eight are
welcome to work in the studio during the weekdays and on weekends by
special arrangement. No overnight accommodations are available for
large groups.
NON-DISCRIMINATION: Red Cinder encourages and welcomes the
participation of artists from all backgrounds and does not
discriminate with regard to race, sex, sexual preference,
disabilities, religion, marital status, age, or nation of origin in
its admission policies.
ADMISSIONS PANELS: Invitations for residencies are extended based
on panel evaluations of artists and arts professionals in each
genre. Panelists are rotated each year.
CHECKLIST OF MATERIALS TO INCLUDE WITH APPLICATION
Please send all materials in one packet and mark your category on
the outside of the envelope.
Completed application form
Current résumé
Collaborative proposal (if applicable)
Check/money order for $25 (non-refundable processing fee).
Non-U.S.A. residents, please make payment in U.S. funds:
international money order or check drawn on a bank with a U.S.
branch.
Acknowledgment postcard (to confirm receipt of your packet). Stamp
and self-address the postcard. Red Cinder will pay postage to
addresses outside the U.S.A.
Self-addressed, stamped mailer (for return of materials). Your work
samples cannot be returned unless they are accompanied by a
self-addressed, stamped envelope. All materials without a SASE will
not be retained following the jury process. If you are accepted, all
application materials will be kept in Red Cinder's archives.
Applicants from outside the U.S.A. may include an international
postal order or response coupon to cover return postage.
Self-addressed, stamped return envelope for notification (if
materials do not need to be returned). Artists from outside the
U.S.A. do not need to include postage.
Work samples (see below)
Please provide the following applicable documentation of recent
creative work:
CHOREOGRAPHY (choreographers): Videotape (VHS on American NTSC
system only) of two examples of choreography, not more than ten
minutes total duration. Make sure tape is cued and ready to play.
Label tape with name, date, and titles. Include brief descriptive
paragraph and titles on a separate sheet of paper.
LITERATURE (writers): Six to ten poems; short fiction; chapter(s)
or section of a book (maximum 25 pages); or play script. Label
writing samples with your name, title, date, and publication
information for each work if applicable. Please securely clip or
bind all pages of your samples together. Send one set and no
original manuscripts. Unpublished material welcome.
MUSIC (composers): Submit two full compositions on audio cassette,
CD, or DAT. If cassette, put each composition on separate tapes;
make sure tapes are cued and ready to play. Send accompanying scores
or a brief descriptive statement (if scores are not part of your
working process).
VISUAL ARTS (painters, sculptors, installation artists.
photographers, etc.): Submit at least six but no more than twenty
slides. Numbers one through six will be projected. Number each slide
(top right corner). Identify each with your name and title of work.
Be sure to indicate top clearly. Place dot in lower left corner.
Include a separate slide list with corresponding numbers; list works
by title, medium, size, and year of completion. Submit slides of
good quality with standard mount for use in a Kodak carousel
projector. Do not send previously submitted slides. No videos,
please, in this category.
MEDIA ARTS/NEW GENRE (filmmakers, video artists, multimedia artists,
performance artists, experimental theater, sound/radio artists.
interdisciplinary artists, etc.): Submit one of the following to
represent your work: video (VHS on American NTSC system only),
slides, or print material, as most appropriate. Select materials
using guidelines in above disciplines. Label all materials and
provide an accompanying explanation sheet.