Clay Residency Available Now!!! 

(1) Glass and (1) Clay Residency will be available for Fall 2010.

Please call or email for up-to-date info and requirements.

Application Deadline: May 1, 2010

Craft residencies at EnergyXchange are intended to enable artists who have completed their schooling and training to move into a shared, fully equipped professional studio space at low cost. Applicants should intend to earn their living through the sale of their work and/or outside employment if needed. EnergyXchange provides a common gallery space, a charge card terminal, individual office space, high-speed Internet, fax and copier, and approximately 5000 visitors to the site each year.

EnergyXchange provides business classes in collaboration with one or more of our partners. Other benefits include close proximity to Penland School of Crafts and Asheville NC, as well as a large and vital community of craft artists. Housing is not provided by EnergyXchange.

Potters and glassblowers are offered the opportunity to share fully equipped studios. Furnaces and kilns are powered primarily with landfill gas at no cost to the resident artists. The residency period is renewable yearly for a maximum of three years.

The clay studio accommodates four potters and provides two electric kilns and a high-fire reduction kiln as well as standard studio equipment. We have a new wood fired kiln too.  Potters are expected to have their own wheel. The monthly rental fee per potter is $230. The glass studio accommodates two glassblowers and provides standard studio equipment. The monthly rental cost per person is $460. Cost of utilities within each studio are shared within each respective studio.

Contact:
Dan Asher, Executive Director
66 EnergyXchange Drive,
Burnsville, NC 28714
828.675.5541