NAARCA’s Icelandic partner, Skaftfell Arts Center located in Seyðisfjörður, is now accepting applications for a funded residency from Nordic and Baltic artists.
Who can apply: Individual artists and 2-person artist collectives living in the Nordic or Baltic countries (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Faroe Islands Greenland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden). Artists must have a permanent address in one of these countries but do not need to have a Nordic or Baltic nationality.
Residency Period: 12 week residency in August, September and October 2025
Application deadline: July 7, 2024.
This fully funded residency, made possible by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, provides the selected artists with the opportunity to participate in Skaftfells residency program as well as contribute to Skaftfell’s educational- and exhibition program.
Skaftfell Art Center offers an international self-directed artist-in-residence program in Seyðisfjörður, a small village in the East Fjords of Iceland. The residency program’s remote setting provides artists the opportunity to work in relative seclusion in a place of that is also home to an international community of working artists. The residency offers space for contemplation, productivity, and collaboration and is ideal for artistic research and experimentation.
Featured image: Skaftfell Art Center, views from the residency apartment above the fine art collaborative printmaking studio, Prentverk Seyðisfjörður.