Summer Assistant Residency 2009

Each year Peters Valley makes available, to qualified people, the opportunity to participate in our summer program by assisting our instructors and studio heads. We need excited, engaged emerging artists to fill this role.  Our instructors are nationally known professional artists. You will have the opportunity to meet and get to know them and perhaps to network for your future careers.  This could be an invaluable addition to your education, especially when you consider the variety of courses offered in a specific studio. The work is hard, the days are long, the pay is nothing. Housing and most of your meals are provided.

Applications are made to the director and decisions are made by the heads of the studio, our resident artists. Heavy emphasis will be placed on your knowledge of studio operations. Applications must include the enclosed application form, 10 slides (or digital images on CD) of your recent work, a resume and 2 letters of recommendation.  Also a letter of intent is required. That letter must state your objectives for the summer and the outlines of a potential project that you might hope to complete during class downtime. You may apply for a time that is shorter than the full summer though the minimum time accepted will be one month. There will be opportunities to show and/or sell your work in our store and gallery as well as to take a course as a student in an area of your choice depending on availability.

 

In the event that a workshop in your studio has been cancelled, you will be asked to work 12 hours during that week for Peters Valley either in the studio doing tasks assigned by the department head or helping out in other areas of the valley such as the office, kitchen, housekeeping, etc.

 

We view the influx of our summer assistants as one of the most exciting times of the year. You may remember your summer at PV as one of the most exciting and productive periods of your education.  Application deadline is April 1, 2009.

 

 

Send your application materials (application form, images, resume, letter of intent, and recommendations) to the following address postmarked no later than April 1st

 

            Peters Valley Craft Center

            Assistant Residency Program

            19 Kuhn Road

Layton, NJ  07851

 

 

SUMMER ASSISTANT RESIDENCY APPLICATION

 

 

 

STUDIO APPLIED FOR: ______________________________________                                                  

 

DESIRED DATES FOR RESIDENCY:  __________________________

 

 

 

NAME: _______________________________________________________________________

 

 

ADDRESS: ___________________________________________________________________

 

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TELEPHONE:             Home: _____________________________

 

                         School/Work: _____________________________

                       

                                        Cell: _____________________________

 

 

TWO PERSONAL REFERENCES: (different from professional recommendations)

                        (List name, address, telephone number/s and relationship)

 

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                        2) _______________________________________________________________

                       

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