Freeman Artist Residencies (FAR) offers a twelve-month artist fellowship for two University of Virginia (UVA) alumni each year. Based in Charlottesville, Va, the fellowship provides local and international exhibition opportunities, financial stipends and mentorship for artists at an early stage of their careers. Founded in September 2020 by Welsh visual artist & UVA Associate Professor of Studio Art Neal Rock, FAR is named after Welsh painter and educator Michael Freeman, who mentored Rock during his formative years in South Wales. Freeman’s teaching, funded by WEA Cymru (Workers' Education Association Wales), impacted communities whose access to the visual arts were restricted by the socio-economic conditions of their time. FAR’s mission is aligned with the founding values of WEA Cymru – facilitating cultural access – by giving priority to BIPoC, LGBTQ+ & first-generation college graduate artists.
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Cynefin Athens | ΚινÎβην Αθήνα is a hybrid gallery and residency space in the Plateia Amerikis district of Athens, Greece. It opened in July 2024 with a group exhibtion of intergenerational artists from Greece, England, Ireland, Wales and the USA. The focus of the venue is to provide exhibition and artist residency opportunites to artists from tradtionally underrepresented backgrounds, in line with the mission statement of FAR. The gallery draws upon histories of artist project-spaces that played siginificant roles in the creative ecosystems of cities like London and Los Angeles. Cynefin Athens aims to question and challenge current and historical divisions existing beteween commerical, public and non-profit gallery models.