The INTERGENERATIONAL LGBT ARTIST RESIDENCY is the first intergenerational artist-in-residency program for 2SLGBTQ+ visual artists in Canada. The INTERGENERATIONAL LGBT ARTIST RESIDENCY offers studio space and free room and board to juried applicants for the duration of the residency. Residents also receive mentoring and studio visits from critically acclaimed artists and curators. Your donations are dearly appreciated and can be made via Paypal, on our website at https://queerartistresidency.ca/support
The land on which the INTERGENERATIONAL LGBT ARTIST RESIDENCY is held is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, the meeting place of Toronto (from the Haudenosaunee word Tkaronto) is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory. The inaugural Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency took place with the support of the Ontario Arts Council and private donors, and the collaboration of then staff of Artscape Gibraltar Point, on the Toronto Island August 12 to 26, 2013. The 2014 Residency was July 1 - 15, with the generous support of private donors and the Ontario Arts Council. In 2015, the residency was again made possible by the Ontario Arts Council, and took place July 24 to August 7. In 2017, thanks to the Ontario Arts Council, the residency was to take place July 31 to August 16, but was postponed due to floods. So in 2018, two juried cohorts took place one after the other, and it was fantastic. In 2019 the residency took place again as in previous summers, however in 2020 the residency took place online due to COVID. Online the residency was tremendously successful, and the funding usually used for transportation and to rent the Gibraltar Point facility was redirected to the participants, jurors and cohort -- we were able to include an additional person and extend the residency length. In 2023 ILGBTAR has taken other shapes, in order to direct more funding to the artists and their projects, rather than on renting space. Please pass along this information to 2SLGBTQ+ artists in Canada, of any age, whether established or emerging, whom you think might be exceptional candidates and who would benefit greatly from this programme. By exploring Canadian LGBT art history and artistic practice, while supporting artists and art production, we could foster communication across generational lines. With this community building initiative, artists highlight the trajectory and longevity of 2SLGBTQ+, both historically and reaching into the future.
