Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) is pleased to announce an open call for all Queens-based artists to submit a proposal for the newly established QCA ArtHotelResidency, a program of the Queens Art Fund in partnership with the Z NYC Hotel and the Paper Factory Hotel.
The QCA ArtHotel residency is intended give artists a safe place to focus on their work in the public realm, build different audiences, and be seen making work within the Queens community. In turn this will give access to the public to a working artist’s process. This residency is also intended to build the value of local working artists in an attempt to revise the narrative of displacement due to gentrification and development borough-wide.
ArtHotel artist residency program has been established to offer 2-Queens based artists, a $3,000 stipend each, for a 3-month period of time to work outside of their traditional environment and daily life. The artist will not live on-site. Artists of any discipline may apply.
Selected artists must be committed to work a minimum of 20 hours per week during public hours, (hours to be determined), and will also be expected to present their work or work in progress during the residency, either as a public lecture or demonstration or exhibition. Complete guidelines and the online grant application for the 2017 ArtHotel residency is available on the QCA website https://qca.submittable.com/submit/77150/arthotel-residency
The QCA ArtHotel Residency is made possible with funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Greater New York Arts Development Fund, in partnership with the City Council and in partnership of The Paper Factory Hotel and the Z NYC Hotel.
Queens Arts Fund provides funding for projects throughout the borough in a wide range of disciplines, enabling residents and visitors alike to experience high quality art all year long. The Queens Arts Fund is committed to supporting emerging artist from diverse cultural backgrounds, working within all disciplines to create work that provide open and equal access for audiences in communities of Queens to further racial and cultural equity.
Queens Council on the Arts is the borough-wide arts council whose mission is to foster, and develop the arts in Queens County and to support individual artists and arts organizations in presenting their cultural diversity for the benefit of the community. For more information visit: www.queenscouncilarts.org