Residency Program

The Feuerman Sculpture Foundation is dedicated to providing meaningful, hands-on learning experiences for emerging artists. Through our Residency Program, participants gain comprehensive training in artistic foundations, including realistic sculpture, materials, processes, and techniques at Feuerman Studios under the guidance of our production team.

Before submitting your application, please review the guidelines outlined below.

RESIDENCY GUIDELINES

Participants are expected to divide their time evenly between their own independent sculpture projects and hands-on learning within Feuerman Studios. They will work in the studio five afternoons per week, focusing on developing skills and engaging in the sculpture-making process alongside studio staff. Mornings and evenings are dedicated to creating their personal sculptures, which must be completed by the end of the residency.

  • Participants must have at least a 4-week commitment.

  • Participants are responsible for arranging their own housing.

  • Program includes food allowance and all transportation.

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Past Residents

Eva Smerekanych, 2025

Eva Smerekanych is an American sculptor originally from Seattle, WA. Her artwork explores the internal tension of identity, heartache, and existential dread. She is inspired by the strength and power of the human body, as the actor through which we interact with the universe around us. Her work primarily explores the female figure through a mixture of hyperrealism and surrealism at a small scale. Eva has always had a fascination for mathematics and cosmology, and often uses concepts from higher dimensional topology to influence the visual interpretation of her work. She asks questions like “how can we visualize emotions as interactions with higher dimensional space?”

Eva attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received a Bachelor’s of Science as a double major in Art & Design and Computer Science, with a minor in mathematics. She was awarded Cards Against Humanity’s Science Ambassador Scholarship for her original short film “Stepping into the Fourth Dimension” which used sculpture and stop-motion animation to explain higher dimensional mathematics to a broad audience. Throughout her time at MIT, Eva continued to be involved in the arts, with work featured in a group exhibition at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.

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