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Artist Residency Application Workshop at the School for Poetic Computation.

Teacher: Taeyoon Choi

TA: Celine Wong Katzman

Date: Oct 19, 2018

Image description: my submittable dashboard for residencies and grants applications. In-progress are all declined applications which the institution didn't bother to update the process.

Artist residencies offer great opportunities for emerging artists to develop their artistic practice. It's also a chance to find a community of collaborators and build a network with curators. Applying to artist residencies can be a daunting task at first. This workshop will give an overview of residencies and provide practical tips to applications. Students will write their artist statement, narrative bio and prepare their supporting documents.

Why do I need to apply for Artist residency?

  • Time and space. Usually free space + professional development
  • Network, connection and exposure
  • Build a relation with a new city, country or community
  • Chance to intervene in the wheelhouse of MFA and the contemporary fine arts network. Connect with curator, writer, gallerist, fellow artists
  • Opportunity for new ideas, inspiration, collaboration
  • Support structure for your practice
  • "When you have money, you don't have time. When you have time, you don't have money. Sometimes you don't have money or time." - Taeyoon
  • my LMCC studio from 2015~2016
  • my Eyebeam experience from 2008~2011
  • my SFPC experience as an administrator

Xuan Juliana Wang's studio at LMCC You meet great friends and collaborators at residencies.

Making a living / Making good work

  • Survival tactic: Diversify your source of income
  • Working for other artists? Access to connections?
  • Do not over commit or over produce (doing mulitple residencies at the same time is a bad idea)
  • We will never have enough time or resources. Deal with it. (Think of your reality as a creative constraint, not a restriction)
  • I highly recommend B.F.A(Basic Finance for Artists) workshop at LMCC, and the Creative Capital's professional development programs and webinars.
  • Art/Work is a a great resrouce on the logistics of being an artist.

Promise me this

  • Apply to 5 artist resiencies in next 3 months.

  • Create your own residency, $5000 grant for yourself. 17 months plan - save $300 every months from this month. By March, 20120, you will have $5000 for your creative work. This is your seed money. Invest in your own practice and your team.

Residency/ Fellowship/ Commission

  • Expectations and experiences are different. Residency focus on supporting your practice, for you to make art. Residencies often only expect you to use the space and exhibiting work in progress during the open studios. Fellowship often focus on programs and professional developments, Commission focus on making one big project, often with financial support.
  • Institutional / Artists-run Spaces
  • Residencies that pay you
  • Residencies that are free
  • Residencies that you pay
  • This all depends on how the residencies are funded and structured.

Domestic / International / Nomadic

You, the artist

  • Artist Bio workshop session
  • Creative tech portfolio / Art portfolio. Seperate them!
  • Creative technologist: "I will fix your technical problems quickly and cheaply." VS Artist: "I have questions for the society and technology. I address these questions with my art."
  • Explain your life, what happend in the last two years, why you did the things you did. What happened in the past five years.
  • Real people are reading your application. They can relate to your life story.
  • Solo project / Collaboration / Cooperation. How to credit and how to apply as a collaborative.
  • You will need to edit your bio, specificcally to the residency you apply.

Sample application questions

  • Where can we see your previous work samples? Please provide up to 5 work samples with individual URLs or images.
  • Explain your interest in this year's residency theme? ( this can be anything). How does your own practise relate to the theme?
  • Have you worked on a technical project or collaborate? What did you enjoy and what was challenging?
  • Are you able to work onsite in New York City between date 1 ~ date 2?
  • Are you able to commit to working on site four days/ week during the residency period?

Artist statement

Project description

  • Be concise and realistic. Follow the next three steps.
    1. What do you see, read, hear from your piece? Describe the experience of the work.
    1. How is it made? Describe the production. What is the material, tool and the process? Is it relevant and important for the piece?
    1. What did you try to achieve with it? What is the message or question, if any. If there's no message, what was the impulse that drive you to make this?
  • Reviewers see 1. Strong work 2. Which applicant can benefit the most from this opportunity? 3. Who will bring the most interesting perspective and value to the institution and community.
  • Get to know the residency before your apply and READ the application questions carefully, visit open studios, talk to the administrators.
  • Work samples : file formats, lengths, best collection of works - artistic voice
  • Thank them. After all, they work for you.

Them. Selection process

  • A selection panel - professionals, supporters of the organizations, and two or three staff persons making the final decision.
  • Think from the perspective of the reviewers. Who can grow the most from this experience?
  • What do you have to offer to the residency and the community? What are you adding?
  • Do I know this applicant? Have I seen her during open studios?
  • How does this person fit into the community and group dynamic

Rejection, Interview, Acceptance

  • Don’t feel bad. It’s not you, it’s them.
  • Keep record of your rejections. Next year, if you apply again, mention what has changed in your practice since the last application.
  • Follow up. Ask if they can give advise for you to apply next time, see who got the residency
  • It gets easier. If you apply for a few times, you have a body of text and images to use. I apply to about 1~2 residencies and commisions per month.
  • Interview: Great, you are one of the finalist. What to do in an interview? Talk about what you are working on right now. And what this opportunity will mean for you.
  • What to do when you are in the residency - fair balance of making work and networking
  • Thank them. After all, they work for us, the artists.
  • If you are accepted, YEAH! Make sure to block out some time and mind space, so you can concentrate on your work during the residency. This is where your residency fund become useful.
  • As part of your residency, you do an Open Studios

Make Your Own Artist residency

  • Pleaces like Eyebeam, Pioneerworks, Recess were started by an artist or arts administrator, and most of them are run by artists and art lovers.
  • Always remember "We are doing this for our people." mentality
  • Build your own art history.
  • Original A.I.Rs pics
  • Something of a dream Rabbit Island
  • Fire Island Artist Residency
  • Temporary Seoul

And

Lots of love for people who work at Artist residencies. THANK YOU!