Deadline: 20-Feb-23

The European Marine Board is looking for two new artists for the 2023 – 2024 edition of the ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ artist-in-residence programme.

EMB’s artist-in-residence programme ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ provides grants for creative individuals or groups to co-create work with Ocean scientists. It aims to inspire wide reaching societal change for Ocean sustainability by expanding societies’ understanding of the Ocean’s value and the urgency of ensuring its health and resilience now and into the future.

A key principle of the EMBracing the Ocean programme is co-creation of work between artists and their scientific collaborators. Co-creation is the process of creating something new together while exchanging and reshaping ideas. The artists and scientists are considered equal and each side benefits and learns from the process. The goal of co-created art–science projects should go beyond making complex scientific topics more accessible to the public, but also for the scientists to gain new insights into their work by collaborating with artists.

Funding Information

• The EMBracing the Ocean programme provides grants of €10,000 for creative individuals and groups to co-create artwork in collaboration with Ocean scientists to expand societies’ understanding of the Ocean’s value and inspire wide reaching societal change for Ocean sustainability.

Eligibility Criteria

• The programme is open to creative individuals/groups from a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Both emerging and established artists will be considered by the committee. Prior experience in co-creation with scientists and/or communities and working on sustainability topics is desirable. Applications are welcome from across the world, and from a wide range of creative disciplines, including but not limited to:
  • Visual arts (e.g. drawing, painting, filmmaking, photography, sculpting, digital arts, installation art);
  • Literary arts (e.g. fiction, drama, poetry, storytelling);
  • Performing arts (e.g. dance, music, theatre); and
  • Traditional and indigenous arts.

For more information, visit EMBracing the Ocean Artists.