Grants & Services for Artists
Cultural Exchanges
GCAC, in partnership with Columbus Sister Cities International, supports cultural exchanges and international arts programming, which promotes an understanding of the world around us. In addition to out permanent residency in Dresden, we support area organizations with their international arts programming.
Residency in Dresden
All past winners of the Individual Artists Fellowships in visual arts, as well as artists who reached the final round of consideration for visual arts fellowhsips within the previous year, are eligible to apply for a residency in Dresden, Germany, one of Columbus' sister cities. Past recipients of the GCAC residencies are not eligible to apply. Each year two Columbus artists are awarded two-to-three month residencies, which include a stipend, airfare, studio space, and housing in Dresden.
Here's what some of our former Dresden residency winners have said about their time in Germany:
"The residency gave me a new confidence in my work that has allowed me to conceive and work on pieces on a more ambitious scale, and has opened up many opportunities for me." - Carol Boram Hays
"The Dresden Residency Exchange Program was an amazing experience. While the culture and landscape did influence me, it did so in an indirect way. I feel like the greatest asset of the program was in that it allowed for me to grow and develop in ways that I didn’t expect. Being in an unfamiliar place and confronted by new experiences, I was forced to reevaluate my studio practice and my relationship to my work and home." - Scott Bowe
"I am deeply grateful to the GCAC and the City of Columbus for my Residency in Dresden." - Mark Fohl
"The time I spent in Dresden changed my life. I say this without equivocation, embellishment, or exaggeration. Prior to the residency, the time that I had to devote to photography was always secondary (or tertiary) to my job and life. I had long complained that I had no time to “do my real work”. The residency answered this complaint. Not only did the residency permit me time to think outside the box of my daily work as a trade unionist but, and more importantly perhaps, allowed me to forget the box itself." - Dallas R. Sells
Artists
In 2009, the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Saxonian State Ministry of Sciences and Arts released a comprehensive program catalogue, which documents work by artists who participated in the program during those years. Below is an electronic version of that catalogue, which can be downloaded as PDF documents:
Columbus artists:
Leni Anderson
Laura Bidwa
Mary Jo Bole
Carol Boram-Hays
Scott Bowe
Larry W. Collins
Alan R. Crockett
Mark Fohl
Linda Fowler
Richard S. Harned
Rebecca C. Harvey
Nicholas Hill
Jenita Landrum-Bittles
Fredrik Marsh
David McBride
Kathy McGhee
Stella Pfeifer
Andrew F. Scott
Dallas R. Sells
Beverly Whiteside
Nancy Wride
German artists:
Antje Blumenstein
Sven Braun
Eiko Grimberg
Brita Hofmann
Aris Kalaizis
Petra Kasten
Silke Koch
Axel Krause
Inga Pass
Marion Porten
Olaf Rauh
Silke Riechert
Daniel Rode
Thomas Scheibitz
Stefan Schroeder
Tilo Schulz
Tobias Stengel
Stefan StoBel
Miriam Vlaming
Thorsten Waak
Jan Wawrzyniak
