Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: TBD
Compensation: $40,000
The Arts Initiative invites University of Michigan graduates (current and previous academic year) of Masters-level creative disciplines to apply for the second cohort of the Creative Careers Residency. The Creative Careers Residency is a transitional program providing support for full-time, self-directed creative practice in architecture, art and design, performing arts, intermedia arts, or creative writing.
While pursuit of an advanced degree in a creative practice provides support, structure, and most importantly, the time necessary to develop and execute creative work, after graduation many practitioners lose these networks of support necessary to develop significant work, posing a significant barrier to the transition from degree to sustained work. The Creative Careers Residency seeks to reduce these barriers to creative practice post-graduation, by providing the time, structure, and funding support to transition from academia to post-graduate endeavors.
Goals of the Creative Careers Residency Program:
To provide transitional support for creative artists, parallel to the scaffolding typical of academic disciplines, to assist graduates in their transition from “graduate student” to “creative professional.”
To foster the continued artistic growth of recent graduates by allowing them to practice their artistic discipline full-time.
To set up U-M graduates of creative disciplines for success in a deep creative practice by providing the infrastructure of support necessary to do so.
Reduce barriers to artists without generational wealth to develop sustainable careers as artists.
To increase the presence of and interactions with artists-in-residence across campus.
To support early career creative practitioners as a bridge to the next tier of artist residencies
