Apply now for ‘2015 Denali Artist-in-Residence’

DENALI PARK — Denali National Park and Preserve is seeking applications from accomplished artists and writers for the 2015 Artist-in-Residence Program, which expanded this year to include winter residencies. Selected artists and writers use an historic roadside cabin as a base to explore and seek inspiration from the park. Each resident conducts a public outreach activity or demonstration for visitors, and donates one piece of art to the program collection. Pieces are displayed in park visitor centers, the Anchorage Public Lands Information Center, and the Fairbanks Public Lands Information Center. An online gallery and writers anthology is available at 1.usa.gov/1s9i0J2.

Applications for 2015 residencies must be submitted by Sept. 30. A description of the online application process is at 1.usa.gov/1uLsJs3. Applications are reviewed each fall by panels of jurors and program advisors. Formal invitations and notifications will be made by Dec. 15.

Winter residents are based primarily at park headquarters for 10 days during the month of March. Conditions permitting, the residency may include overnights at a patrol cabin located along the first 35 miles of the Denali Park Road. Summer artists-in-residence stay at the East Fork cabin, located at Mile 43, for 10-day periods between June and mid-September.