Call for Applications: Eco-Process Artist Residency
In mentorship with Morgan Sears-Williams
At the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency
Priority: LGBTQ+ 2S emerging artists, with some experience in photo/lens-based practices.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2026
Notification: mid-May, 2026
Residency period: August, 2026
Applications are now open for a one-month summer residency, open to emerging artists in Metro Vancouver and Indigenous territories/reserves in or connected to this area. The selected artist will have access to the Blue Cabin studio, adjoining deckhouse accommodations, staff support, and will receive a residency fee plus public program fee (totalling $3500), as well as funds for materials.
Mentorship will include up to 3 sessions working with interdisciplinary artist Morgan Sears-Williams to explore and develop skills in eco-processing and alternative photography techniques, such as phytogram, lumen printing, cyanotype or other sustainable photographic processes.
Over the course of the residency, the artist-in-residence is invited to consider the unique site of the Blue Cabin on the waters of Vancouver, shared by the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh) and Tsleil-Waututh (səlilwətaɬ) Nations since time immemorial. What can this environment and its cycles teach us about sustainable practices? About fluidity and flux? About decay, transformation or regeneration? About creating in relationship with what was and what might be? The Blue Cabin offers a vantage point from which to consider this region — its layered histories and speculative future — differently.
Full details and application form: https://forms.gle/9JbvgA9U8wMTCdAx6
Downloadable google doc version of the application form.
This residency is produced by grunt gallery in collaboration with the Blue Cabin Cooperative.
Closed for Statutory Holiday – Friday, April 3, 2026.
Though the gallery is closed for installation as we switch over exhibitions, please note that staff will be unable to respond to calls and emails this Friday due to a Statutory closure.
Accessibility:
grunt gallery is accessed from the sidewalk via a 106” long, 64” wide concrete ramp that rises 12”. The slope is 1 : 8.75. There are no rails on the ramp. The front entrance is an outward-swinging double door with a total width of 64”, and with hand and foot height buttons for automated opening. Entry to the Media Lab behind the gallery space is via a 42” wide passage and entry to the neighbouring amenity space is through a manually operated outward swinging double door with a total width of 70”. No stairs, inclines, or elevators are necessary to access the public areas once inside the gallery.
grunt gallery has a single gender neutral washroom that is accessed via a 31” wide doorway with an automated swinging door with a door handle that is 40” high. The toilet has a 10” clearance on the left side and a 21” clearance in front, with a support bar on the left side. The sink height is 34”.
grunt has immunocompromised guests and staff. Masks are strongly encouraged and are provided at the door.
Please contact us via access@grunt.ca with any questions, feedback or to discuss access needs.
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