Call for alumni to the residency programme in Scotland
Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency call is open to Academy of Fine Arts graduates from 3 to 30 September 2025.
The Academy of Fine Arts’ alumni residency programmes, in partnership with Saastamoinen Foundation, support post-academic visual arts studies at dynamic international residencies. The residency periods range from 3 to 11 months. The programme partners are:
- Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht
- International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York
- Liason of Independent Filmmakers in Toronto
- Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Scotland
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
The call for the four-month alumni residency at Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop in 2026 is open from 3 to 30 September 2025.
The alumni residency programs are a part of the International Incubators in Fine Arts project, established by Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts and the Saastamoinen Foundation. The project aims to build a dialogue between teaching in fine arts and the international field of art. Read more about International Networks in Fine Arts.
Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures
In 2021, the Academy of Fine Arts, in collaboration with Cove Park and the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW), launched a new artist residency programme in Scotland as part of the Saastamoinen Foundation’s partnership project. The program named Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures focuses on making practices in a time of climate breakdown. The program invites applications from those who are already exploring ecologies of making and from those who wish to (re)focus or build relationships with the more-than-human in our warming world. The aim is to support artists to research and develop ecological methods and contexts for their artistic practice.
MFA or DFA alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts who work with sculptural methods or material processes can apply for the program in Scotland. Applications are welcome from graduates at any stage in their career. The residency is divided into two separate yet interconnected periods to allow for two distinct areas of development; the first two-month residency will take place at Cove Park in Argyll and Bute, and the second two-month residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire. The residency period at Cove Park will take place in June-July and the residency period at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop will take place in August-September 2026.