Undisciplined The Artist Residency

Program Dates: March 9-16, 2026 

Application Deadline: October 1, 2025 

Application Form: https://forms.gle/BvTEgr8E6J9Vefno6 

Residency Cost: $650 + HST 

The fee covers daily workshops, shared studio, private bedroom, shared kitchen, and a shuttle-bus to and from the venue. Note: participants are responsible for buying and preparing their own food, and for travel to/from Toronto Island. 

Application: 

Undisciplined The Residency is open to any, and all, approaches to art, and encourages participants to grapple with the questions that arise for all those who have a stake in more than one artistic medium. Artists may apply with or without a specific project in mind. 

To apply you will need: 

• Artist Bio, including the most relevant work instances to their current practice (250 words max) 
• Writers: 3-5 pages, prose/poetry 
• Visual: 5-10 images 
• Video or Sound: 5 minutes max. 

Selected participants will be notified by the week of October 20th. 

On Undisciplined & The Residency: 

Undisciplined, The Residency is a generative residency taking place from March 09 through March 16, 2026. 

This residency is organised by Undisciplined, a hybrid arts initiative devised for queer artists and devoted to fostering radical imagination as a means to generate collaboration across and within disciplines. Undisciplined produces readings, exhibitions, zines, workshops and residencies that spill messily across mediums and resist categorical containment. Founded and run by textile sculptor Kelsey Whyte & poet Mic Jones since 2023. 

The Residency continues Undisciplined’s ongoing inquiry on form– making, aesthetic, linguistic, political, visual, sonic, performative, etc.– as a means to develop creative practices beyond institutional bounds, aiming to widen processes of making and to open up a space for sharing and thinking together. 

Each day of The Residency begins with a hybrid workshop—involving textile-arts, poetry and prose writing, filmmaking, sculpture, movement, collage. Workshops will offer methods and opportunities for transdisciplinary experimentation, embodied thinking, and inter-medium collaboration. Following workshops, dedicated studio time (afternoon to evening) provides participants the opportunity to develop new and/or ongoing projects. Throughout The Residency, participants will be encouraged to reflect on their individual practices and the polyphonic dynamics taking place within workshops. 

The residency is open to a maximum of seventeen participants and encourages applications from all kinds of creative practices. In gathering a diverse spectrum of artists, Undisciplined seeks to unfold an experimental and ephemeral community of learning. How can a transitory, moving community gathered on a small island on a great lake contribute a shift in the creative landscape within and beyond its direct context? 

Facilitator Bios: 

Mic Jones is a poet & curator working in various forms & often collaboratively. Read them in Peripheral Review, CV2, The Poetry Project, motor journal, Hobart, Simulacrum Magazine, LIT & beyond. Mic curates readings for the League of Canadian Poets, co-runs The Devotional Chaos Reading Group at Issues Magazine Shop, & is the co-founder of Undisciplined, a transdisciplinary initiative for queer artists in Tkaronto that produces readings, exhibitions, zines, and workshops. Their writing has received support from the CCA, OAC, The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Centre, & Naropa’s School of Disembodied Poetics. 

Kelsey Whyte is a multidisciplinary artist. Currently blending textile sculpture, performance art and video. She is interested in queer stories, community and history while reconciling her past and position in this hostile world, often using humour to cope. Her work has been shown internationally at the European Media Art Festival in Germany and nationally at the Gardiner Museum alongside Yoko Ono’s exhibit The Riverbed and her first Solo Show recently closed at Cedar Ridge Cultural Centre. She has participated in residencies such as the KIondike Institute of Arts and Culture (Dawson City, YK), Feminist Photography Network (Toronto, ON) and most recently Vermont Studio Centre (Johnson, VT).