Longform 2025

Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists' Residency is now accepting scholarship applications and registrations for Longform 2025. This studio-based residency seeks to provide an intensive, creative development experience, fostering deep connections amongst facilitators, visiting artists, and participants. One facilitator, two visiting artists, and a group of residents from any career stage, generation, and practicing any media shape the residency experience through a robust schedule of lectures, readings, studio visits, workshops, critical discussions, and of course, studio time. 2025 program dates are September 25-October 16.

This residency is inspired by alternative learning models and low-res academic programs where shared experiences foster fast and lasting connections. Beyond the time & space offered by many residency programs, Ox-Bow and the Longform facilitator, kg, build out thoughtful schedules for the residents including multiple group discussions per week centered around readings and topics selected by the facilitator, studio visits with visiting artists Hope Wang and Nia Easley, workshops led by visiting artists and Ox-Bow staff to encourage the participants to learn a new skills and increase their comfort with our facilities (including the ceramics, print, and metals studios), and the opportunity to present on their work via work share events. While participants are free to choose how they would like to build out their schedule, we hear routinely that the structured nature of the program, as well as the participants' unobstructed access to our facilities, are among the most cited strengths of the residency.

Meet our facilitator

kg (b.1980, Poland) makes weavings and writes poetry from their home studio by the lake in Chicago. kg values the small the domestic and the everyday, situating those politics in their studio and curatorial practices. They have exhibited work nationally and internationally at galleries and art organizations such as, Horse and Pony (Berlin), The Brooklyn Academy Of Music, The Bruce High Quality Foundation and The Gowanas Ballroom (New York), Left Field Gallery and Adjunct Positions (Los Angeles), Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis), Monique Meloche Gallery, Gallery 400, Julius Caesar, Hyde Park Art Center, LVL3 (Chicago), The John Michael Kohler Art Center (Wisconsin), Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, and their most recent solo exhibition, Here Comes That Feeling at Hawthorne Contemporary in Milwaukee. Some Kind Of Duty, their expansive weaving survey hosted by The DePaul Art Museum is available as a monograph through the museum shop and online. kg attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Artist in Residence at Chicago’s print studio, The Donut Shop, and Vermont Studio Center. 

Kg recently curated Dog Show at Arts Of Life in Chicago and Small Wonders at NIAD in California. You can see their work now in Amuleto, hosted by The Hyde Park Art Center, The Franklin and The Mayfield in Chicago.

About Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency

As an artist-built and run school and residency, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency is dedicated to the creation and preservation of time and space for arts education, research, practice, and community-building for artists at all stages of their artistic journey. Founded in 1910, Ox-Bow’s egalitarian and intimate environment encourages all artists, regardless of experience, to find, amplify, rediscover, and share their impulse to create. Faculty, Visiting Artists, Residents, staff, and students live together in community on our campus in Saugatuck, Michigan, where they share meals, social time, and the exchange of ideas. We actively encourage our participants to engage across differences in age, regional location, race, and gender identity, learning what it means to be a community by participating in one. Ox-Bow is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization. 

Longform will be hosted on Ox-Bow’s campus in Saugatuck, Michigan from September 25–October 16, 2025. Tuition is $5,750 and registration is now open. Reserve your spot here. Each resident receives a studio space, room & board, and three meals per day. 

If a participant requires funding to enroll, they are encouraged to apply for a Longform Scholarship. Applications for scholarships are now open and due July 6 by 12:00am EST. They will be reviewed by a panel of diverse arts professionals. Apply for funding here. 

If you have questions regarding the Longform program please email our programming team at [email protected].

07/06/2025