Our Artist Residency
Our competitive international residency program, one of the first of its kind in Colorado, provides artists with the time, space, and support to create new work, explore new mediums, and share their creations with the community. Each Resident Artist's practice and the work produced during their residency addresses social justice issues, welcoming any creative discipline. During their residency, artists have full access to PlatteForum’s studio space and are required to lead workshops with ArtLab interns and other youth-serving groups, culminating in exhibitions and/or performances in collaboration with the youth.
“I’ve been around residencies my whole career, and I’ve never seen one as supportive and engaging as PlatteForum’s.” - Ilan Gutin, PlatteForum’s Curator and Engagement Director
Our 2024-2025 Residency Application has closed and will re-open in January 2025
Meet our Current Resident Artist, Eileen Roscina
Artist, Experimental Filmmaker, & Naturalist | Resident until November 8th
Roscina holds an MFA in Art Practices from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA, and also trained at the School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Denver. Through biomimicry and the study of biophilia, her work examines human’s spiritual and social (dis)connection with nature, and seeks to raise questions about realizing a radically different metaphoric mapping of time, space and our place in the world.
Roscina works in 16mm film and animation, sculpture/installation with natural materials and alternative photographic processes. She has exhibited film internationally, and visual art at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver Art Museum, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder), Museo de Las Americas (Denver), Vicki Myhren Gallery at University of Denver (Denver), Center for Visual Art (Denver), Arvada Center (Arvada), Dairy Art Center (Boulder), University of Colorado (Boulder), Salina Art Center (Kansas) and was the 2019 Resident Artist for the National Western Stock Show, a 2018-2020 resident at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver. She is represented by Walker Fine Art Gallery in Denver, CO.
Opening Reception: November 8th at 6pm at our A.I.R. Annex Gallery
About the Resident Artist Program
PlatteForum’s Resident Artist program is one of the first of its kind in Colorado. Our competitive international program provides artists the time, space and support to create new work, explore new mediums, and share their work with the community. Each resident artist’s practice and work created during their residency must address a social justice issue and may be created through any creative discipline.
Resident Artists are given full access to PlatteForum’s private studio and gallery space during their residency. Resident Artists also receive housing support, multiple stipends including a weekly teaching stipend, a podcast/artist talk stipend, a pre-planning stipend, and a materials stipend. In return, Resident Artists are required to lead workshops with ArtLab Interns and other youth-serving groups, culminating in exhibitions and/or performances in collaboration with youth.
Our Resident Artist program is competitive with over 100 applications received and a total of 4 residencies awarded each season.
“The PlatteForum residency was a platform for me to create a network of people with whom I am sure I will work with, or rely on, again.
I also got engaged with narratives that as an artist, I would like to continue working with, specially the history of the border, the relationship of "gringos" with mexican-americans and the chicanx invisibilized presence in the history of the state.”
— Paloma Ayala, Resident Artist, 2020
“PlatteForum's residency makes dreams come true.
When I arrived for the six to eight week residency, supporting my work was the staff's focus: from helping me brainstorm lesson plans for the youth engagement (I didn't have a lot of experience working with youth, especially 3rd grade), to connecting with the art community of Denver, to finding the only working band saw to cut over 100 plastic water bottles to fit a Lite-Brite wall custom built by their amazing volunteer artist committee team.
It was a luxury to have the support to realize my creative vision.”
— Kate Speer, Resident Artist, 2018
