The Digital Fabrication Residency is an online skill-building intensive incubator for visual artists and designers with the desire to learn digital fabrication workflows such as 3D printing, CNC milling, laser cutting, digital embroidery, textile printing and other CNC related workflows. The programing consists of individual consultations, group workshops, open work times and guest speaker talks with residents. This program enables artists and designers at any stage in their career to explore technology that is changing ideas about studio practice and in the craft of making. The residency utilizes online collaborative tools to enable learning and consultation and idea development catered to the individual project needs of participants.

The Digital Fabrication Residency introduces residents to specific software workflows and provides residents with limited license to selected software for the duration of the residency. Residents can submit up to 5 files to be 3D printed or submit files for a limited number of laser cuts or for a limited number of digital embroidery works.*

• The residency includes technical workshops, individual consultation meetings and open work time; all utilizing interactive online collaborative technology readily used in education and industry.
• The Digital Fabrication Residency is designed to be flexible around resident’s schedules.
• Residents can connect to meetings and workshops from their location on their personal computer.
• Workshops include entry-level programs to professional level software workflows for designing, modeling, engineering parts, file preparation, including how traditional workflows can augment digital output and locating CNC related services and professional level services providers for machine output.

Applications are submitted via the link below by completing our online application form. A completed application includes a bio statement, project/area of concentration proposal, either a website link to your portfolio website or by emailing your images to the email address provided on the Apply form and a $15 application fee.
http://www.digitalfabricationresidency.com/apply/

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. A limited number of spaces are available per session. Available session dates are updated regularly on the Apply form. Please see the Apply form for residency fee information that the resident is responsible for in order to take part in the residency program.

Winter Session Application Deadline: December 28, 2014 by 11 PM


Residency Dates:
Winter Session (12 week ) January 5 - March 27, 2015
Winter Session 1 ( 6 week ) January 5 – February 13, 2015
Winter Session 2 ( 6 week ) February 16 – March 27, 2015
Spring Session ( 6 week ) April 13 - May 22, 2015
Summer Session ( 12 week ) June 15 – September 4, 2015
Summer Session 1 ( 6 week ) June 15 – July 24, 2015
Summer Session 2 ( 6 week ) July 27 – September 4, 2015

To learn more about the Digital Fabrication Residency visit http://www.digitalfabricationresidency.com

To apply to the Digital Fabrication Residency visit http://www.digitalfabricationresidency.com/apply/

There is a $15 USD application fee that is credited to accepted applicants and the cost to the accepted applicant of the residency is outlined on the Apply page of www.digitalfabricationresidency.com

* Terms and conditions apply.