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Olin College
Creative
Residency
2020-21
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Summary
Olin College of Engineering is pleased to announce its creative residency program, an initiative that’s part of
Sketch Model (http://www.olin.edu/collaborate/sketch-model/), supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
to bring artists and other creative practitioners to Olin’s campus to awaken the political and cultural contexts for
technology. We’re seeking individuals or collectives whose work is significantly housed in the arts and
humanities and whose interests might intersect in provocative and convivial ways with a small undergraduate
college where all students major in engineering. The residency is a one-year opportunity for creative
practitioners to carry out independent projects, collaborative engagement with students and faculty, and campus-
wide events. Practitioners can come from the fine arts, design and architecture, craft, music, theatrical or dance
performance, film, writing, new media, and the many hybrid forms of socially engaged and durational practices in
contemporary global culture. Women and historically underrepresented communities are especially encouraged
to apply. We’re calling for applications for our 2020-21 academic year. Deadline for applications is November 15.
Extended information is on our (http://www.olin.edu/collaborate/sketch-model/sketch-model-creative-
residency/)website (http://www.olin.edu/collaborate/sketch-model/sketch-model-creative-residency/).

More information

Olin College was established to re-invent engineering education. We welcomed our first class of students in
2002. A small-scale “lab school” with a large impact, Olin is an innovative leader in transformative higher
education, welcoming weekly visitors to its campus from all over the world—thus far, over 800 visits from 55
countries since the school was founded. Our curriculum emphasizes human-centered design, real-world
collaborations, and co-constructed pedagogies that partner students with faculty for authentic learning. Our
presence in the Boston area connects our work to likeminded leaders in higher education, including a formal and
active partnership with Wellesley and Babson Colleges (http://bow3colleges.org/). Olin operates free of
departments, tenure structure, and traditional disciplinary divisions, and our tiny scale allows for an unusual
amount of freedom and genuine community for its 350 undergraduates.

While the majority of our faculty come from fields of engineering and the sciences, our faculty also include
scholars with expertise in anthropology, history, psychology, the fine arts, musical performance, design, and
more. All students at Olin major in engineering, and they all take a minimum of 28 credit hours in the Arts,
Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHS). Our AHS faculty create innovative, project-based, hands-on curricular
experiences for our students that pose big questions; their courses are unlikely to be found in a course catalog
anywhere else. But our community is hungry for additional and new engagements in the arts and humanities, and
in summer 2017, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Olin with a grant to fund three initiatives: hosting
creative residents on campus, sending our students as summer interns to arts organizations nation-wide, and
inviting arts and humanities scholars to campus to workshop their own STEM-arts curricula for their home
 institutions.

We are calling our residency program an opportunity for “Creatives-in-Reference”—a variation on the traditional
residency model, one in which we imagine a resident with a more community-facing role. Where traditional
residencies often emphasize individually driven, private practice, we’re interested in practitioners who can
propose a project(s) that would be inherently social and collaborative: a figure who would be more available “in
reference” than a lone creative. (See more information on the role in the Q & A on
(http://www.olin.edu/collaborate/sketch-model/sketch-model-creative-residency/)our
(http://www.olin.edu/collaborate/sketch-model/sketch-model-creative-residency/)website
(http://www.olin.edu/collaborate/sketch-model/sketch-model-creative-residency/).)

Funding and Provisions:

The stipend for the year is $75,000. The creative will also have a $10,000 budget for events on campus. If
desired, creatives will have access to all fabrication facilities: wood and metal shops, CNC machines, 3D printers,
materials science labs, biology wet labs, sewing machines, screen printing tools, and more.

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