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Recess Now Accepting Applications for Session Residency: Deadline March 15

Recess, a non-profit artists workspace and proud recipient of a LMCC grant, is now accepting applications for Session Residency.

Session artists receive 2-3 months in one of our spaces, a small honorarium, and a materials budget to cover the material costs of their project. Recess is free and open to the public, and encourages artists to engage with their audience in a manner specific to their creative goals, using Recess as a studio, exhibition space, stage, and/or experimental platform. Artists have access to their space for the full duration of their residency and are expected to work on a daily basis or the equivalent of at least twenty hours per week. They will be given a small honorarium and a stipend based on the material needs of their residency. In conversation with Recess staff, artists designate their own work hours and the degree to which they coincide with public hours.

Artists may open their doors to present work, to stage performance-based activities, and/or to engage with public audiences while they work. Most resident artists will choose to be present during public hours (Tuesday – Saturday 12-6; Thursday 2-8), connecting with visitors through visual material, participatory or performance-based activities. If the artist chooses to work in private, when the space is closed to the public, his/her presence will be implied by the site-specific, workshop environment of work in process. Artists will be given keys to the space and may work when the space is closed.

Applications are due March 15th, 2012.

Full guidelines and the link to upload materials can be found here.

Recess is open to the public with locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Posted by LMCCFebruary 3, 2012permalink