PURPOSE Nepal’s traditional arts scene boasts many of the finest master arts practitioners in the world today in one of the most breathtaking environments in the world, offering the visual artist innumerable opportunities for creative inspiration. The FPAFA-KCAC Patan Museum Residency offers a unique and exciting opportunity exclusively for Select Artists of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to live and create in a world class creative environment, and to interact and collaborate with the local and international arts community and arts and professionals. Nepal lies at the crossroads of the exciting international arts communities of Asia; the Nepali arts scene regularly hosts a vital group of international contemporary artists from the United States, Europe, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, India and Singapore. The Selected Artist will be required to give two presentations on their work –one during the Residency, to be arranged by Ms. Sangeeta Thapa, Director of KCAC and Siddhartha Art Gallery—and upon their return, a presentation to the Board of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
ELIGIBILITY and REQUIREMENTS ELIGIBILITY: This Residency is offered exclusively to artists who are members of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and either PAFA Faculty, Certificate, BFA or MFA graduates of PAFA, and/or current or past participants in PAFA’s Post-Graduate Baccalaureate Program.
SELECTION PROCESS The jury selection process is two-tiered; three finalists are chosen from the first round of selection by an annually invited U.S. juror. The three finalists’ submissions are then forwarded to Kathmandu, Nepal, for the final selection of the Resident Artist by Sangeeta Thapa, curator, co-founder and co-director of KCAC, and founder and director of Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited, Kathmandu, Nepal. http://www.siddharthaartgallery.com/cms/
2016 UNITED STATES JUROR SUEYUN LOCKS is Director of Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, a vital Philadelphia venue which continues to play a prominent role in showcasing the work of Philadelphia and nationally known artists. Ms. Locks has endowed fellowships and contemporary art initiatives in the Philadelphia region’s leading arts schools and institutions, and is a member of the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council. Mrs. Locks is a trustee of the Locks Foundation and along with her husband established the Sueyun and Gene Locks Endowment for Far Eastern Art, and has served on the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s East Asian Art Departmental Advisory Committee. http://www.locksgallery.com/about
2016 NEPAL JUROR SANGEETA RANA THAPA is co-founder and co-director of Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre (KCAC), and co-founder of the Kathmandu International Arts Festival (KIAF), now planning its third international edition. She is also founder and director of Siddhartha Arts Gallery (SAG) in Kathmandu—the premier visual arts gallery in Nepal. A DeVos Fellow of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Ms. Thapa is a visual arts curator and arts writer of respected international stature.
FPAFA ARTISTS 2016
