RaumArs A-i-R
Rauma
Website
www.raumars.org ↗ (opens in a new tab)Disciplines
Visual arts, Music & sound art, Literature, Performing arts, Design, Research, Handicraft, Arts journalism, Architecture, Ceramics, Media, Curating, Other
Founded
1997
Contact information
RaumArs A-i-R, Kuninkaankatu 37, 26100 Rauma, Finland
Executive director Hannele Kolsio
tel +358 (0)44-0545419
raumars(at)raumars.org
Address
Itäkatu
Accommodation and organization
Residency locades in the World Heritage site Old Rauma. The apartment consists of two bedrooms (2 beds in both room), a lobby, a kitchen, a toilet and a shower/toilet in a wooden detached house. The yard consists of 9 lodgings. You can be living alone, with your mate/partner or with other artists (max 4 at a same time, but you share the bedroom only with someone you know/comes with you). Artist will take care of cleaning of the apartment so that it stays in a good condition for the next artist to make herself/himself at home.
Rauma Art Museum and artists’ studios locate close by.
RaumArs is a small independent association, which functions in the Satakunta region in western Finland with help from local art and cultural institutions, organisations and individuals.
How to apply
Application once a year in March-April for the next year’s residencies.
- Information about RaumArs
- Information about the Apartment
- Information about Applying
- Information about Instructions and rules
- Collaborator’s Links
Accessibility and companions
- Children and partners are welcome
Residency
The main idea of RaumArs residency is to bring artists and art closer to people by producing community-based art projects. Priority is in community/participatory artists & art.
With our collaborators RaumArs board of management chooses 4–10 artists per year of which 2–4 artists will receive a stipend (free accommodation, some production money and some assistance).
The main selection criteria will be the artists’ motivation to work in collaboration with local people, the proposal and the quality of previous art. Many of the projects are carried out with children or youth, but artists actualize the project according to their wishes and collaborate with any group they wish for. Very often shows, performances or events happen in unconventional spaces. Please read about the old projects from our Archive and create one of your own with a new audience :).
RaumArs has successfully been collaborating with Rauman Seudun Katulähetys (Rauma Street Mission including homeless, workshop trainees and youth work) and Rauman Seudun Työnhakijat (Association for the Unemplyed of Rauma) so we all wish for new art projects in collaboration with artists.
The applicant doesn’t have to have previous teaching experience, but need to prove to be able to carry out the project. RaumArs will give some assistance in producing the accepted proposal for a stipend artist. English will be the working language and should be spoken reasonably well.
Artists pay the travel and living costs themselves. RaumArs does not have a separate studio or working space. In most cases art practices/workshops etc. are done with local people at collaborator’s space. In the apartment there is a lobby to be shared. In some cases studio space can be arranged and the artist needs to negotate it with the third party beforehand. In most cases it has rental.
During the residency artists create communal/public/environmental/site specific artworks or have the possibility to create independent art works and possibly to present their work in the form of an exhibition/performance/education/workshop/event during or at the end of the residency period. Exhibitions can not be guaranteed to every artist, because RaumArs do not have a space of it’s own.
Every artist pay a registration fee and deposit money, which is refundable in the end of the residency.