S.T.I.R.R.

The Summer Travel Independent Research Residency allows students affordable access to places necessary to complete their unique research project within the university, ensuring successful outcomes within and beyond their degree program.

STIRR adapts higher education to the 21st century. Offering a research residency program tailored to each student, STIRR allows postgraduate students access to place, offering the opportunity to completely realize each student’s individual research project — anywhere. STIRR is fundamentally different in that student’s residencies are tailored to their research — as opposed to traditional residencies wherein students necessarily retrofit their research to brick-and-mortar residency programs. Thus, through STIRR students can access the essential spaces necessary to realize the culmination of postgraduate education in the arts.

When a student’s proposal is accepted to our competitive, juried program, STIRR works individually to tailor the program to their needs. The STIRR program offers lodging, travel, mentorship, studio time, and/or materials for artists — assisting in their production upon returning to their studios. Additionally, STIRR offers professional guidance and a network of independent artists to assist in moving through the difficult period after graduation and into a sustainable career in the arts. As the needs of each student and each project differs, the program fee will fluctuate by proposal. STIRR is committed to offering scholarships to all students based on need and/or merit. STIRR aims to offer this exceptional opportunity affordably to all students.