2026 Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline
November 14, 2025
16 days left
Application Fee
FREE
Rewards
Multiple Rewards
Interest
High
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About This Opportunity
The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks on-site at the Archive’s locations in Santa Clarita at The Packard Humanities Institute Stoa and in Westwood on the UCLA campus during the late spring of 2026 to activate the Archive collection in their artistic practice. This year’s artist-in-residence will work exclusively with one or a combination of three specific collections: the Hearst Metrotone News Collection, _In the Life_ LGBTQ+ Collection and KTLA Newsfilm Collection. The program will provide the artist with the time and support necessary to access and work with these unique collections, creating a project that will reach new audiences and make connections with Los Angeles’ cultural community.
**Focused collections: Hearst Metrotone News, _In the Life_ and KTLA Newsfilm**
The Archive holds the rights to these three collections and will make them available for the artist-in-residence without restriction.
* The Hearst Metrotone News Collection is one of the largest newsreel collections in the world. It contains over 27 million feet of distributed newsreels, unreleased stories and outtakes that range in date from the beginning of the series in 1914 through 1968.
* _In the Life_ (1992–2012), television’s longest-running LGBTQ+ newsmagazine series covers stories of social and political topics facing these communities. Access to this collection will include extended interviews and B-roll footage.
* KTLA has been a prominent independent television station in the Los Angeles area for more than 60 years, bringing local, national and world news to a regional audience. The KTLA Newsfilm Collection at the Archive primarily encompasses footage from circa 1958 to 1981.
Both the Hearst and KTLA collections contain a wide range of domestic and international topics, as well as subject matter specific to the greater Los Angeles area.
The residency will be a shared process for the Archive and the artist and will include the following core activities:
* The residency will commence in advance of the two-week, full-time on-site visits in the form of planning meetings to perform research, identify potential titles for access, refine project scope and proposal as needed, and collaborate with Archive staff to create an on-site visit itinerary.
* Research and identify materials for access from the Archive’s Hearst Metrotone News, _In the Life_ and KTLA Newsfilm collections.
* As accessible analog works are identified in the collections, the Archive will provide resources to digitize these analog holdings to enable the artist to use high-resolution files in their work.
* An introduction to archival training to understand the process of conservation and digitization that will take place on-site at the Archive’s facility in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa.
* The opportunity to meet with members of the Los Angeles community, the UCLA community and/or the archival community that could help advance their project, including filmmakers, archivists, past artist-in-residents and faculty. This work will take place either on Zoom or in person during the two-week, full-time visits.
* Between the end of the on-site residency and the end of the year, Archive staff will be available to work in consultation with the artist.
* By the end of 2026, the artist will finalize the work and discuss their residency at a public presentation, panel discussion or event in the Archive’s Virtual Screening Room.
**Timeline for Artist-in-Residence Program**
* In preparation for the two-week on-site visits:
1. Six weeks before the program begins, meet 4-5 times, in person or on Zoom, for orientation, preliminary planning and research
* Two-week, full-time on-site visits to be completed preferably in May, 2026, and no later than June 15, 2026
* Independent work and practice between June and November, 2026
* Archive presentation completed by December 1, 2026
* Finalized work to be submitted to the Archive for conservation by December 15, 2026
What You'll Get
Types: FUNDING, OTHER
The Archive will provide an honorarium of $10,750 for the selected artist-in-residence. The artist-in-residence will be responsible for booking their travel and lodging, and may use their honoraria for these expenses at their discretion.
Application Requirements
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Eligibility
Geographic Requirements
US
Other Requirements
**Criteria** The Archive highly encourages candidates to apply for the Artist-in-Residence Program if they meet the following criteria: * The candidate is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. International scholars in the U.S. under a J1 or other work permit visa are not eligible for the program. * The candidate is an **emerging artist with less than 10 years of professional experience in their chosen artistic field** whose professional and creative works demonstrate an interest in moving image media research and/or archival collections and institutions. * The Archive collections available for this residency (Hearst newsreels, _In the Life_ and KTLA) are directly related to the candidate’s proposed project, and the candidate has researched the holdings to assure that relevant materials would be available to them. * The candidate’s proposed project will be shared as part of a public presentation, publication or exhibition. * The candidate is not enrolled as a student in any degree-granting program during the residency period.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Los Angeles, US
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Active since 2020
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Don't miss out on this opportunity. Applications close on November 14, 2025.