Brooklyn residency for Pamela Méndez
For 2019, the City of Culture of Bern and the Canton of Bern have found a new partner organization for their New York fellowship for artists. Photographer Alexander Jaquemet and musician Pamela Méndez will be the first to travel to Brooklyn.
Jaquemet and Méndez will be able to use a studio run by the Residency Unlimited organization in Brooklyn for five months in the second half of 2019. The musician from Bern is looking for material for a third album in New York. The scholarship is endowed with CHF 15,000 each to cover travel and accommodation costs.
The City of Bern offers two scholarships in New York each year. Two selected artists can each use an apartment and a separate studio in New York free of charge from August 1 to December 31. The Canton of Bern offers the New York scholarships under the same conditions in the other half of the year.
After generations of Bernese artists have been guests in Manhattan for their New York residencies, Jaquemet and Méndez will be working in Brooklyn for the first time. The apartment and studio will be rented through the local organization Residency Unlimited RU in consultation with the selected artists. The Brooklyn-based organization is also the local contact. The next call for applications is planned for fall 2019, for a residency in New York from August 1 to December 31, 2020.
