The Salt Alumni Fellow at Hogfish will create photography and videos documenting the flagship gender expansive opera production of the Breasts of Tiresias and the workshop Queen Marinette, a new indigenous/non-indigenous collaboration musical as well as weekly short promotional videos for the season and social media.
About Hogfish
Hogfish is a regenerative arts and artist training company at the historic Beckett Castle, surrounded by a world-class rose garden on the coast of Maine. We are building an artistic sanctuary and body of work dedicated to restoring creative and physical health to individuals, our communities, and our earth.
Deliverables
- 10-20 publishable photos of each event. Each performer having a photo that they can use for their own materials, capturing them in action. Photos of the audience enjoying the experience.
- Archival full length video documentation of each performance, ideally with two points of view
- Weekly social media content: photo and video of rehearsal process
- Final 5 to 10 minute personal piece about the process
Fellow to provide their own equipment.
Start Date: June 22, 2024
End Date: August 4, 2024
Time Expectations
Fellow is expected to be at each signature event and key rehearsals.
Signature Event Dates (Subject to Change)
Kegs and Roses on June 29th, July 10 workshop, August 1,2, 3
Farm to Stage series with Artists in Residence (dates TBD)
Fort Gorges: Weekend of July 25-28
Wells Nature Preserve: Weekend of July 13
Marinette Workshop: July 10
Grief Ritual: July 6
Opera: July 31 dress rehearsal, 1, 2, and 3 of August
Rehearsal Dates
June 21 is arrival of company
June 24 begins the rehearsals
At key rehearsals (first three weeks of the six, mornings are healing modalities and afternoons are three hour process and then three hours. Will happen five days a week.)
Some tech days.
Locations
Rehearsals are at 380 Cumberland in Portland
Residency offerings at 7 Singles Road, Cape Elizabeth ME
Other locations TBD
Performances of Opera August 1-3 & tech rehearsals : AURA Nightclub 121 Center St, Portland, ME
Workshop on July 10: Mallet Barn, Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture 713 Wolfe's Neck Rd, Freeport, ME
Support
- Housing in MECA&D Residence Hall if needed, which is available from June 21 to August 4, 2024
- Stipend: $2,000, paid directly to fellow by Hogfish
- $500 travel stipend
- Each participant receives Alexander Technique private sessions (lessons in mind-body awareness), wellness coachings, and performance hypnosis, participates in a daily full company group class exploring how we connect with ourselves, our communities, and our planet - weaving in somatic, ecology, meditation, acting, EDI exercises, and more, including Saturday excursions.
Additional opportunities:
- Work with Unreel Films
- Appear on Hogfish podcast
Other:
Fellow maintains usage rights of all materials they produce.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be MECA alums.
Non graduated alums, SALT graduates, Post Baccalaureate graduates, Continuing Studies faculty and students are ineligible to apply.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY: Monson Arts is a new artists’ residency and arts center in Monson, Maine. Programs in development include residencies for artists and writers, intensive shorter workshops, and educational partnerships with area secondary schools.
Monson is located at the edge of Maine’s North Woods - a 3.5 million acres of forest bordering Canada. It is the last town on the Appalachian Trail before the beginning of the 100-Mile Wilderness that leads to Mount Katahdin.
Since it was founded in 1822, the community has had an economy based on natural resources. In the late 19th through the early 20th centuries, slate quarries supported a thriving industry. Moosehead Manufacturing produced wood furniture from the 1945 until its closure in 2007. The region also has a rich arts tradition— ranging from Henry David Thoreau, who wrote about the area in The Maine Woods to photographer Berenice Abbott who lived in nearby Blanchard, to traditional makers such as the North Woods Canoe Company in Atkinson.
In the spring of 2017, Maine’s Libra Foundation began investing in the development of an arts program for Monson as a way to spur economic and creative growth in the region. The foundation has purchased and renovated over 20 buildings in the community to be used for residences and studios. Stuart Kestenbaum, former director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Maine’s poet laureate, is advising the foundation on the development of the programs.
The program is open to visual artists and writers. All artists are given a studio which is a large empty classroom in a former school. In that same building, there is a clay studio with as kiln that offers classes to the public.
RESIDENCY DATES:
AMENITIES
- Basic studio space
- Housing (private room, shared bath)
- Meals
- Access to basic wood shop and metal shop
- Stipend of $500 for two week residencies and $1,000 for month-long residencies
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: Prepare the following information in advance of submitting your application. Incomplete applications will not be considered for review. Please upload online the following documents and images, not zipped, but individually uploaded.
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
- One-page statement of purpose explaining why you want to attend this residency (PDF)
- Biography
- Resume / CV
- 10 Work Samples
- Image descriptions that correspond to your images which include title, medium, size and year of completion.
- Choice of top three dates
All submissions must have been completed within the last three years. All documents listed above should be saved as a Word document or a PDF.
Late and incomplete proposals will not be accepted. Only online applications via Submittable will be accepted.
TIMELINE: Deadline for applications is midnight EST on January 31, 2024. Notification of awards will be made in mid-March.
Maine College of Art & Design
The Above and Beyond Grant at MECA&D helps currently enrolled BFA, MFA, and MAT students access structured learning opportunities and experiences that take them above and beyond MECA&D's classrooms and facilities. By applying to this grant, students will learn basic skills in grant writing, budgeting, and formatting work samples while assembling proposals to fund activities such as conferences, workshops, or professional events. This grant does not support self-directed research or learning.
You will be asked to name the professionals who are involved in supervising this activity.
Eligibility:
For BFA applicants: students need a minimum GPA of 3.0 in the most recent semester. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors must be enrolled for the upcoming semester to qualify.
Funds cannot be used for:
+equipment
+ projects that do not have professional supervision
+ projects that are part of the curriculum
+ activities that earn academic credit
+ resources that are available at or through MECA&D
+ day-to-day creative practice expenses (rent, materials, marketing, etc.)
Requests are capped at $500.
Students may only receive this grant once.
Review Criteria:
Quality of proposed activity
Quality of artwork
Clear goals for how this relates to artists' professional development
Timing:
For activities taking place between May 1 and October 1, 2024
Grant Recipients:
+ All funds are contingent on prior pre-registration or anticipated graduation. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors must be enrolled for the upcoming semester to qualify.
+ All grant recipients are required to provide a summary report within one month of completing the funded activity.
This form is only for use by students who applied for and received money supporting professional development from the Maine College of Art.
Congratulations on receiving a grant from the Maine College of Art to support your professional development and future creative and career growth!
This report form helps us keep track of what you did with your grant money, what you learned, and whether your experience is something we should encourage other students to pursue.