Wages for Art(work)

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	Wages for Art(work)
    
    
    is a participatory art project by artist and tech worker Quinlan Maggio. 
During the hours that the artist is working a job, participants are invited to book an hour-long session to ‘work’ alongside them. Participants can use that hour to make art, write, sleep, take a walk—anything that is creatively generative for them. Participants are then compensated for this time at the rate of
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an hour, 50% of Quinlan’s hourly wage.
  
  
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:05:07 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>thank you</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:16:45 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Thank you for your participation!

Please give 24 hours for payment to arrive via Paypal. Contact wagesforart@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Click here to book another session or visit the project archive here.
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		<title>payscale</title>
				
		<link>https://wagesforart.com/payscale</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:23:23 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Payscale informationWages for Art(work) is an art project by Quinlan Maggio, a white tech worker living in Brooklyn, NY on occupied Lenape land. This project is intended as a small form of wealth redistribution.
The default payment per session is $40, half of the artist’s hourly wage. Participants who self-identify as from a marginalized group are eligible to receive $80 total, the full artist’s wage. Participants can also opt to donate their session payment to relief efforts in Gaza via the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
Please choose the option that feels best for you and your participation in the project.</description>
		
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		<title>Residency FAQs</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:19:41 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>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 - 18thJanuary 19th - 31stFebruary 2nd - 15thFebruary 16th -28thMarch 2nd - 15thMarch 16th - 29thI 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.

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		<title>hours</title>
				
		<link>https://wagesforart.com/hours</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:24:15 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Hours

Wages for Art(work) is dependent on the artist’s working schedule. Below are general hours with some variation week to week. Please click here to see their hours in more depth and to book a Wages for Art(work) session.

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	10am - 6pm
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		<title>intro</title>
				
		<link>https://wagesforart.com/intro</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:42:46 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>IntroCreative time is time spent doing, thinking, moving in a way that brings something into the world. It’s often unstructured, open-ended time that does not have a predetermined outcome. The beauty of creative time is that even if goals are not met, or there are questions unanswered, it is never time wasted. Creative time is its own reward. 

People are not given enough creative time. Between the grind of work and social reproduction tasks of cooking, cleaning, childcare, laundry, rest, self care, and more, it is difficult to set aside dedicated time for creative pursuits. Wages for Art(work) is an experimental art project in which participants are compensated for an hour of creative time. The sessions take place during the artist’s working hours and are funded by half of the artist’s hourly wage. The name of this project is inspired by the 70s feminist movement Wages for Housework, which made the political argument that housework and other unpaid labor is a form of work and should be compensated as such. 

Since Covid-19, there has been movement towards compensating people for creative time, for example, the guaranteed income for artists program by Creatives Rebuild New York. As well, organizations such as W.A.G.E. and Get Artists Paid have provided resources, created industry baselines, and started conversations to ensure artists receive fair compensation. Wages for Art(work) takes a micro approach to address the issue of uncompensated creative labor. Unlike most artist grant programs, participation in the project has few strings attached; participants are only asked to share a snapshot of their creative time spent for the project’s digital archive.

Wages for Art(work) is an experiment. The goal of the project is to open up space for people to engage with creativity on their own terms. The future of the project is open as well, and will depend heavily on feedback from participants. Ultimately, this project seeks to leverage the artist’s labor power to give creative time back to people, one hour at a time.


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		<title>about</title>
				
		<link>https://wagesforart.com/about</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:37:40 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>About the Project
Wages for Art(work) is an experimental art project in which participants are compensated for creative time. The project was created by Quinlan Maggio, an artist and tech worker based in Brooklyn, NY. Wages for Art(work) is primarily virtual, with the coworking sessions scheduled online and an archive of participant’s photos living on this website. The project launched on June 16th, 2023, and will run for one year. 

How to participate
Participating in Wages for Art(work) is a simple process: 

1. Sign up for a session here
2. Spend your designated hour in whatever creative way you choose
3. Snap a photo, video, or other form of documentation at the end of your session and upload it to the follow-up email4. Receive payment

Who can participate
Wages for Art(work) is open to anyone who wants to participate. Participants are generally compensated at the rate of $25/hour, half of the artist’s hourly wage. Participants from a marginalized group (self-identified) are eligible for an additional $25/hour upon completion of the session.Click here to see the artist’s working schedule 
and here to participate in the project.

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		<title>participate</title>
				
		<link>https://wagesforart.com/participate</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:39:39 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Participate

To participate in a Wages for Art(work) session, select a date and time on the calendar below. Additional instructions will be sent to your email address. Please limit your bookings to once per week.


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