2025 Residency FAQs
What is the time commitment and requirements for this residency?
The time commitment for this residency is 8 hours of coworking sessions total over the course of 2 weeks. During our sessions, you are invited to do something creatively generative for you while I work at my day job. At the beginning of each session, you and I will have a quick check-in over voice/video call or text chat to kick off the coworking session. At the end of each session, you will be asked to upload a digital snapshot of your creative time. At the end of the week, you will send one physical artifact from your creative time to be collected into the project’s new physical archive. In exchange, I will send you $500 total compensation, roughly $62.50/hour for your time and effort.
What are the exact dates of each residency?
The available residency periods are as follows:
January 5th - 18th
January 19th - 31st
February 2nd - 15th
February 16th -28th
March 2nd - 15th
March 16th - 29th
I work during most of the week. How will the coworking sessions be scheduled?
Before the start of the residency, I will send a scheduling calendar with many options for 1-2 hour sessions throughout the 2 week period. Ideally, our sessions would take place between Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm EST. However, I am flexible and can work with you if evening or weekend sessions are needed.
What can the physical artifact be? How will I get it to you?
The physical artifact can be a sketch, sheet music, a handwritten recipe, a usb, a feather, a rubbing, a wayward leaf found on a walk, anything that you feel represents your creative time spent. Please do not send finished artworks—remnants, artifacts, and/or documentation is preferred. A mailer kit for your physical artifact (size and weight limit TBD) will be sent to your location so that you can drop it off at USPS for no cost. If you live outside the U.S., we will work together to figure out the best shipping method at no cost to you.
What will you do with the documentation from my creative time?
The project’s archive is a vital part of Wages for Art(work). The digital documentation lives on the website (soon to be re-designed). The physical artifact you send will live in the archive's public collection and potentially be in future gallery shows in which you will be given credit and invited to participate in its curation.
Why a residency? Will the previous model of Wages for Art(work) continue?
The reason for a virtual residency is threefold: primarily, I wanted to try a model that lends to deeper and slightly more prolonged engagement with participants. Second, the residency program will run while I develop a new website for the original model of Wages for Art(work) that will allow other people to sponsor their own creative sessions. Lastly, I am calling it a residency so that participants can add it to their CVs.
Is this residency open to the public?
Priority is being given to past participants in the Wages for Art(work) project. If there are any slots available after the initial sign up period, I will post an open call for new participants. If you know someone that might be interested in participating, please have them send me an email in the meantime!
Please contact me at wagesforart@gmail.com with further questions or concerns about the residency program.
The time commitment for this residency is 8 hours of coworking sessions total over the course of 2 weeks. During our sessions, you are invited to do something creatively generative for you while I work at my day job. At the beginning of each session, you and I will have a quick check-in over voice/video call or text chat to kick off the coworking session. At the end of each session, you will be asked to upload a digital snapshot of your creative time. At the end of the week, you will send one physical artifact from your creative time to be collected into the project’s new physical archive. In exchange, I will send you $500 total compensation, roughly $62.50/hour for your time and effort.
What are the exact dates of each residency?
The available residency periods are as follows:
January 5th - 18th
January 19th - 31st
February 2nd - 15th
February 16th -28th
March 2nd - 15th
March 16th - 29th
I work during most of the week. How will the coworking sessions be scheduled?
Before the start of the residency, I will send a scheduling calendar with many options for 1-2 hour sessions throughout the 2 week period. Ideally, our sessions would take place between Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm EST. However, I am flexible and can work with you if evening or weekend sessions are needed.
What can the physical artifact be? How will I get it to you?
The physical artifact can be a sketch, sheet music, a handwritten recipe, a usb, a feather, a rubbing, a wayward leaf found on a walk, anything that you feel represents your creative time spent. Please do not send finished artworks—remnants, artifacts, and/or documentation is preferred. A mailer kit for your physical artifact (size and weight limit TBD) will be sent to your location so that you can drop it off at USPS for no cost. If you live outside the U.S., we will work together to figure out the best shipping method at no cost to you.
What will you do with the documentation from my creative time?
The project’s archive is a vital part of Wages for Art(work). The digital documentation lives on the website (soon to be re-designed). The physical artifact you send will live in the archive's public collection and potentially be in future gallery shows in which you will be given credit and invited to participate in its curation.
Why a residency? Will the previous model of Wages for Art(work) continue?
The reason for a virtual residency is threefold: primarily, I wanted to try a model that lends to deeper and slightly more prolonged engagement with participants. Second, the residency program will run while I develop a new website for the original model of Wages for Art(work) that will allow other people to sponsor their own creative sessions. Lastly, I am calling it a residency so that participants can add it to their CVs.
Is this residency open to the public?
Priority is being given to past participants in the Wages for Art(work) project. If there are any slots available after the initial sign up period, I will post an open call for new participants. If you know someone that might be interested in participating, please have them send me an email in the meantime!
Please contact me at wagesforart@gmail.com with further questions or concerns about the residency program.