Fellowship Grant: The Ink Shop / Olive Branch Press

The Ink Shop / Olive Branch Press offers an annual Fellowship Grant to a printmaker or book artist. The Fellowship, funded in part of a generous contribution from the Kahn Family, provides an artist with the time and resources to create a new body of work. The Fellow is given the opportunity to present this work in a gallery show. The Fellowship enables an artist to participate in Ink Shop exhibitions and portfolio exchanges and to partake in all aspects of the Ink Shop’s day-to-day management. The Fellow volunteers to help with shop operations, and with workshop and exhibition programs. As such, the Fellowship is particular attractive to those wishing to learn about running a nonprofit arts organization.

The Fellowship begins September 1, 2012 and ends August 31, 2013.

The Fellow is offered a stipend of $5000 and all the benefits and privileges of a Printmaker Associate. The Fellow may teach workshops and/or edition for other artists (for which one could be paid additionally as an independent contractor). The Ink Shop provides technical advice, guidance, and assistance in production and use of equipment.

H. Peter Kahn (1921 – 1997) is fondly remembered by generations of Cornell University students and by members of the Ithaca community as a man whose life was dedicated to the arts of fine printing and the handmade book. A prolific typographer, painter, illustrator, and book designer, the German-born artist lived in Ithaca for forty years. Regarding the Kahn Fellowship, his widow, Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn, says, “It is an affirmation of Peter’s enthusiasm for graphic arts and his own life as a teacher.”

Postmark deadline is Friday, June 29, 2012. Grant recipients are notified by Friday, July 20, 2012.

Application must include:

1. Project proposal (one page maximum);
2. Studio and background skills;
3. Portfolio (provide 10 slides or 10 images on a CD or actual portfolio of 10 images; include a separate list of the images, with the following information: title, dimensions of image and paper, size of edition (if applicable);
4. Resume;
5. Self-addressed stamped envelope
6. Check for $35 application fee payable to: The Ink Shop

Send to:

The Ink Shop Printmaking Center 330 East MLK Jr. / State St. 2nd Floor of CSMA Ithaca, NY 14850

Web Site: http://www.ink-shop.org/studio/kahn-family-fellowship

Program URL: http://www.ink-shop.org/files/HPK-Fellowship-Application-2012.pdf