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The Artist Workspace Mentorship Project A program to foster the development of artist workspaces across the nation In February 2008, the Consortium announced the award recipients of its third and final round of The Artist Workspace Mentorship Project:
Artist workspaces actively engage artists in the creation of new work by providing hands-on technical assistance in the studio and equipment. Artists value this work and have noted that, "With fewer grants to individual artists available, workspaces are the only places for artists to go and have the space to work. This support becomes part of an overall strategy to support artists' careers. Workspaces are today's alternative spaces." Because the Consortium wants to increase the number of workspace opportunities and deepen the quality of the residency experience for visual artists, it launched this initiative to mentor a new generation of emergent workspace programs. Award recipients will travel to New York City for a two-day meeting around the value and vision of the artist workspace. The convening will be facilitated by LarsonAllen and will also include site visit(s) to New York City based artist workspaces. Awardees will select another Consortium artist workspace site to visit in the Spring where they will benefit from one-on-one dialogue with workspace staff. By August 2008, awardees must complete a draft of their own artist workspace residency program plan that is informed by the lessons of their site visits. In addition to $10,000 in in-kind services, each awardee will receive financial support of up to $3,500 (up to $3,000 for travel reimbursement to New York State Artist Workspace Consortium member sites and $500 upon delivery of their artist workspace program plan). Previous program participants include: Flux Factory The New York State Artist Workspace Consortium’s Mentorship Project has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. |
