Residency Application Update: We received 115 applications from 12 countries for the 2014 Rabbit Island Residency. Creative and smart proposals and were submitted in genres across the board: visual art, dance, music, writing, photography, mapping, interactive sound, poetry, landscape architecture, and many others. Each proposal has been a pleasure to review and we would like to sincerely thank everyone who applied. We are in the process of narrowing submissions to 3 funded residencies and plan to announce winners publicly on Monday, September 9th.
We are excited to be able to offer a small group of artists the opportunity to contemplate what it means to create on a remote island in Lake Superior. Thanks again, everyone.
Good luck to our friends at Cabin-Time at the start the of their fifth expedition, CT5: Green River. We’re looking forward to see what they’ll be working on in the dusty expanse of Desolation Canyon, Utah, especially our friends and previous Rabbit Island residents: Geoffrey Holstad, Sarah Darnell, Ryan Greaves, Mary Rolithsberger (CT3: Rabbit Island in 2012), Emily Julka (2012 and 2013), and Charlotte X.C. Sullivan (2013).
Miles Mattison, 2012 residency beta-tester arranging a collection of driftwood.
A quick reminder that the application deadline for a 2014 residency is in two days time (August 23rd, 2013). Make sure you have your applications in by midnight of that day if you would like to be considered for one of the supported residency positions next summer. Apply at: www.rabbitisland.org/art
This past Saturday ten high school students, an illustrator and a NOLS instructor returned from a week of isolation on the island–the first ever Rabbit Island School. We are excited to share the experience and ethics of Rabbit Island with the next generation of artists and conservationists. More on this to come, including art, writing and the harrowing tale of the island’s first kidney stone. Stay tuned!
We couldn’t be more excited about our collaboration with LOVELAND and WhyDontWeOwnThis.com. Imagine if Kickstarter, The Nature Conservancy, and Google Maps had a baby. We will use the graphic mapping technology that LOVELAND has developed in urban Detroit to crowdsource conservation in northern Michigan. Our beta test will evolve amidst the forested lands of the Keweenaw Peninsula, four miles west of Rabbit Island.
On the island we think a lot about wilderness in the context of art, civilization and sustainability. In Detroit LOVELAND is thinking hard about how to make land-based change happen in ways never before possible. We can’t wait to see what happens.
+ essay on culture + land use: there is no antonym for subdivision
It’s official. Our supported residency program has now launched and we are accepting applications for summer 2014 residents. Find out all the details and make your application here.
Storms, biology, swimming, plein-air painting, sauna building and lots of documentation… Catch up with some scenes from the summer so far on our Instagram where many of this years visitors have been sharing their research and views.
The progress on the tree-based studio I’ve been building on the south-southeast side of the island. This art installation / usable architecture will enable artists-in-residence to pursue their practices in a unique environment of the island.
I’ve hit a wall and don’t have enough funds to finish the cedar decking, however. Roughly $500 is needed to finish the structure. You can help me finish the installation this year so it can be used by the artists, architects, chefs, scientists and researchers who are arriving in the second half July.
Please support my Indiegogo crowdfunding effort which will only run for a few days. Every bit helps. Thanks.
– Andrew