The 2026 Arts/Industry application opens January 1, 2025 and closes February 28, 2025.
Established in 1967 by the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc., the John Michael Kohler Arts Center is nationally recognized for its concentration on art forms, artists, and ideas that have received little critical attention. Each year, the Arts Center commissions and presents work by contemporary visual artists, filmmakers, dance companies, composers, musicians, and other artists with an emphasis on programming that generates a creative exchange between these individuals and the public. The Arts Center also frequently hosts exhibitions of work by artists who have transformed their homes, yards, or other built environments into works of art, often featuring its own unparalleled collection of works of this kind. In addition, the Arts Center collaborates with Kohler Co. to host Arts/Industry, an internationally renowned residency program providing opportunities for artists to create new bodies of work and public commissions using the technologies and facilities of an industrial pottery. In 2021 the Arts Center opened the Art Preserve, a 54,000-square-foot facility dedicated to the preservation and display of works from artist-built environments.
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race, sex, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
Arts/Industry application materials must include:
- 10 images of the artist’s work
- A résumé/CV (3 pages maximum)
- Statement of Interest (250 words or less)
- Statement of Experience (250 words or less)
- Artist Statement (250 words or less)
- 2 professional references
If selected as a semi-finalist, you will be asked to elaborate on your residency goals and desired outcomes of the program by providing a project proposal.
Sign up for an info session here: https://www.jmkac.org/events/