Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Tri-College Creative Residencies Program encourages Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore faculty from across the three divisions
— natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities —to design and implement arts residencies in conjunction with their curricular and scholarly agendas. The program takes as its primary goal the broad integration of the arts through small liberal arts college curricula, seeking particularly to stimulate the creation and enhancement of courses and broader curricular missions by supporting extended, multi-dimensional arts residencies that combine pedagogy, public presentation, and informal exchange among artists, faculty, students, the wider campus, and area communities.
By "artist" we mean not only practitioners of traditional media —fine arts; music; creative writing; filmmaking —but also a spectrum of creators, including innovative practitioners of scientific narrative and imaging, creative non-fiction writers, performance artists, illustrators, architects, sonic fabulists, environmental bricoleurs, explorers of virtual media and spaces,
"outsider" image-makers, multimedia curators, and others working at the frontiers of what we think of as "art."
With the aim of advancing the arts throughout Tri-College curricula, the Mellon Foundation is particularly interested in supporting artist residencies organized by faculty outside the traditional creative arts departments at the three Colleges; however, all three institutions strongly encourage joint proposals made by experienced arts faculty and those working in departments not traditionally associated with the arts. In addition, special priority will be given to projects that involve faculty and students from more than one college within the Tri-College
Consortium.
Residencies may vary in duration, frequency, focus, and methodology, taking a variety of forms: class visits, public lectures, and small workshops; longer-term collaborative creative projects with faculty and students; and specially-designed team-taught classes involving Tri-Co faculty members and a visiting artist. They may be undertaken by faculty as part of a specific class, as a concentration- or department-wide residency, or as a multi-departmental project. Tri-College faculty have already developed a number of potential models over the past few years with support from a Mellon Planning Grant; more information on those residencies can be found at haverford.edu/hhc/mellonarts.
The TriCollege Creative Residencies Program is jointly administered by the John B. Hurford ‘60
Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College, the Committee on the Undergraduate
Curriculum at Bryn Mawr College, and the Mellon Creative Residencies Committee at
Swarthmore College. Faculty should apply to their own institution’s administrative committee; joint proposals spanning multiple campuses should be sent to all relevant committees for review.
By July 2012, a Mellon-supported dedicated Residencies Coordinator will be hired to work with faculty in conceptualizing residencies, coordinating with all three colleges, and realizing all technical requirements and logistics related to approved projects. Using Hav erford’s Hurford
Center for the Arts and Humanities as a home base, the Residencies Coordinator will routinely be present on all three campuses to consolidate our efforts.

For all three years of the grant, faculty organizing accepted Creative Residencies will receive a stipend of $200 in the spring of the residency year for participating in an assessment process (a meeting at the end of the semester). For the first year of the grant only (2012-13), faculty organizing accepted Creative Residencies will receive an additional honorarium of $300 in recognition of their time and initiative--for helping to get the program off to a successful start.
When faculty partner in organizing an event, both (or all three) of them will receive the stipend and, in the first year, the additional honorarium.
Eligibility
This grant aims to integrate the arts across the curriculum by specifically supporting artist residencies organized by faculty outside the traditional creative arts departments at the three
Colleges. However, all three institutions strongly encourage joint proposals made by experienced arts faculty and those working in departments not traditionally associated with the arts. In addition, special priority will be given to projects that involve faculty and students from more than one college within the Tri-College Consortium.
Spring Deadline for Fall 2012 Residencies: Friday, March 30th, 2012
Fall Deadline for Spring 2013 Residencies: Friday, October 26th, 2012
**Applications submitted more than one semester in advance, particularly for larger projects, are encouraged.
Faculty should submit their proposals via email to their own institution’s Creative Residencies representative; please write “Creative Residencies Proposal [Last Name]” in the subject-line.
Joint proposals spanning multiple campuses should be sent to all relevant representatives for review. Prior to submitting a proposal, please contact your host institution’s Creative
Residencies representative to discuss the project, budgeting details, and other logistics:
James Wesisinger, Associate Director, John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, jweissin@haverford.edu
Ben Berger, Associate Professor of Political Science, Creative Residencies Committee,
Swarthmore College, bberger1@swarthmore.edu
Anna Dampf, Post-Award Grants Administrator, Bryn Mawr College, adampf@brynmawr.edu
I. PRINCIPAL AUTHOR(S) OF APPLICATION
Name: ________________________________________________
Phone: ______________________E-mail: ___________________
Department/Concentration/Institution/Organization represented (if any):
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Name: ________________________________________________

Phone: ______________________E-mail: ___________________
Department/Concentration/Institution/Organization represented (if any):
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Name: ________________________________________________
Phone: ______________________E-mail: ___________________
Department/Concentration/Institution/Organization represented (if any):
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II. PROJECT DETAILS
Title of Residency Project
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Please provide a 1-page description of your residency project, including information about the proposed visiting artist/speaker/performer/participant(s); names of collaborating faculty/departments/offices and how they’ll be participating in the project; timeline of public events; curricular or departmental links (will the artist be visiting specific classes, facilitating an assignment, running a workshop, meeting with faculty, etc.); thoughts on scope (single class visit? week-long? semester-long?); your overall goals for the project; reflections on who might make up the audience for the event; and an explanation on how the honorarium was determined.
**Please also discuss how you’ve explored synergies with other potential collaborators in your institution, the Tri-Co, and/or beyond.
**Where applicable, please include a technical rider from the artist.
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Capsule Description of Main Event (Please fit into this space):
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Capsule Description of Other Activities (i.e. workshops, demonstrations, etc.):
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List of Supporting Documents Provided (résumés, syllabus for any related course; for both visual and performing arts proposals, please provide slides, digital images, script samples,
DVD’s, reviews, tapes, or any other helpful evidence about the nature and the quality of the work.)
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III. WHEN & WHERE
Proposed Date(s): (Please provide alternate dates if possible)
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Proposed Venue: _______________________________
Have you checked on its availability or made a room reservation? ________________________
IV. BUDGET SUMMARY
Please itemize the cost for each category; provide a per-person breakdown in the proposal narrative, including details on modes of transportation and points of origin. Round all figures to the nearest $10. Creative Residencies representatives from the three campuses will provide support for determining the budget expenses if such help is needed.
Requested from Creative Residencies Fund / Other Source
Honoraria for Speaker(s)/Performer(s)
Total: ___________/__________
For visits involving several activities, please itemize costs for each activity reflected in
the honorarium.
Travel & Transportation Costs (total): ___________/__________
Lodging Costs: ___________/__________
Location:___________________________________
Hospitality: Reception following event: __________/___________
Hospitality: Meals for Speaker(s)/Performer(s) __________/__________
(Please estimate numbers.)
Technical Requirements: __________/___________
Event Staffing required (# of people needed and hours):
Other total: _______________________
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED FROM THE CREATIVE RESIDENCIES FUND:
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