Living and working at the EKWC is both a challenging and rewarding experience. Our residencies are intended for any professional artist or designer wishing to pursue their research and expand their knowledge and dexterity through the medium of clay and breadth of the ceramic process — and the EKWC has an infrastructure designed to facilitate this pursuit.
On average, sixteen participants stay at the EKWC at the same time, with a new participant starting and a participant completing their residency every week. This means that the composition of the resident group is steady evolving over a given resident’s twelve-week stay, and that residents have the opportunity to meet many new peers and expand their respective creative networks.
Each resident has their own room (that includes a bed, bathroom with shower, and a desk), and a bright and spacious studio in which to work. Residents have access to these spaces, and to most of the centre’s workshops and equipment, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
The large, open kitchen is shared with the other residents and serves as a convenient gathering and resting place. Exchange between residents often begins in the kitchen, and develops outwards from there.
