The Name Of, A Residency for Trans* Artists
Deadline: October 15th 2025, 12pm EST.
Submission Fee: Free to apply
The fee for this residency is $700.00 CAD (inclusive of HST). If artists intend to apply for grants or bursaries, the facilitator is happy to provide letters of support.
The fee for your residency includes;
Private accommodations
Studio space
Access to Facilities at Gibraltar Point, including : Photography Darkroom, Resource Library, Artist Tool Library, Projectors and various Media tools.
Welcome Dinner
Facilitated events; including artist presentation, visiting artist talks, workshops, and a final presentation/ exhibition
About the residency: The Name Of is a one week residency from March 23rd-30th 2026 held at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, facilitated by multidisciplinary artist Maddie Alexander (They/He). This residency is for trans* artists, inclusive of all who fall under the gender diverse, 2 Spirit, Intersex, GNC, or Non-Binary experience. The intention of this residency is to foster a focused space for trans* artists to collaborate, share research, expand your networks, and nurture space to dig into your practice in new and explorative ways. Throughout the week, artists will be guided through skills sharing workshops, artist presentations, studio visits, work-in-progress crits, visiting artist talks, and a final presentation/ work-in-progress exhibition. This residency welcomes visual artists, performers, curators, writers, and sound artists across media and practices
Our residency title, “The Name Of”, is a fragment of text pulled from trans activist Lou Sullivan's Diary (We Both Laughed in Pleasure). In this phrase, Lou exclaims “ I don’t need to know the name of why I feel so run down”. The act of naming our experiences as trans* folks is layered and expansive. “The Name Of” offers guided space for trans* artists to move through this exploration, however they feel fit.
