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This is an open call for artists who are also caregivers to apply for a family artist residency program.
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Get matched →Our year-round family residency offers artists the chance to live in a private home in Wassaic while participating fully in our artist residency program. We broadly define “family” as a group of more than one individual where there is an in-house, and dependent, caregiving relationship. We aim to provide family accommodations which increase access to our residency program. Examples of caregiving include, but are not limited to: parent/child, child/parent, partner/partner (where one partner is a supportive caregiver), or a recipient of caregiving.
Summer residents work out of 200–300 square foot studios in the Luther Barn. They have 24-hour access to their studios, our print shop, our wood shop, and our ceramics studio. Winter residents work out of ~100 square foot studios in the Old Hotel in Maxon Mills. They have 24-hour access to their studios and our ceramics studio (print and wood shops are closed in winter). Our family residents receive the entire HVA to themselves, which includes four bedrooms, one bathroom, a full kitchen, a dining room, a firepit, a tire swing, and a wraparound porch. It is located just down the street from Maxon Mills and right next to our summer studios in the Luther Barn.
Two to three times per month, creative professionals will visit to give short lectures on their work and make one-on-one studio visits with our residents. Our embedded critics lead monthly group studio visits, while Co-Director Eve Biddle, and Director of Artistic Programming Will Hutnick make one-on-one studio visits with residents. All residents are also invited to participate in a monthly evening of artist’s talks and presentations, and are encouraged to be available on the last Saturday of every month to participate in our Open Studios program.
Our family residency runs from January to April and then from June to September, with 1 to 4 week residency sessions for each month. Although our individual residency sessions are roughly 3-4 weeks, artists participating through the family residency program can opt-in for shorter residencies, anywhere between 1-2 weeks. The Wassaic Project strives to accommodate individual families' schedules to the best of our abilities. Our yearly open call for the residency program is generally held from late March to early July on Slideroom. We finish review and notify applicants by early November. Applicants are evaluated by a review panel composed of our Co-Directors, Director of Artistic Programming, and professionals in the field. Residents are selected based on the quality of their work, commitment to their practice, and ability to engage with the community at large.
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