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SUMMARY:Artist-in-Residence 2021 Open Call
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE\nDeadline: December 14\, 2020\, 11:59 EST \n2020 has been a complicated and challenging year for all of us\, including Flux Factory. To ensure the safety of our community\, we have not invited any new residents since we shut down in March. By adhering to public health guidance about how to be together safely\, we are excited to be able to invite a limited number of new Artists-in-Residence to join the Flux Factory family in 2021. \nThe Flux Factory Residency grew organically out of a DIY artist’s collective founded in 1994 in an old spice factory in Brooklyn. Flux is now happily nestled in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens\, New York. \nJoin our mailing list or follow us on Instagram to ensure you don’t miss a beat! \nScroll down to learn more details about Flux Factory’s Residency…\n* Please note that due to COVID19\, safety protocols will be in place that may change some of the below information. For more information about specific COVID19 protocols please email Maya@fluxfactory.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetails on Residency\n\n\nClick here to read the info page in French or Spanish \n\n\nResidency \nSince 1994\, Flux Factory has offered an informal\, artist-run\, and collective residency program comprised of a changing community of creative collaborators\, including (but not limited to) artists\, community organizers\, urban agriculturalists\, educators\, curators\, builders\, game designers and musicians. As a community\, we value communication\, co-creation\, accountability\, experimentation\, and safe space. \nWe offer short & long-term residencies\, work facilities\, as well as direct exhibition and programmatic opportunities. Since introducing our formal residency program in 2009\, hundreds of cultural producers from all over the United States\, South Africa\, Myanmar\, Turkey\, Italy\, Germany\, China\, France\, Mexico\, Denmark\, Russia\, Chile\, Lebanon\, South Korea\, Taiwan\, Peru\, the Ukraine and more! Flux’s history as a DIY family is deep in our DNA. Residents collaborate and learn from one another to realize new works\, propose and produce our public programming\, and have equal input in the overall direction of the organization. \nDuration \nOur open call for Fluxers is posted twice a year. In 2021 we are inviting artists for residencies of 3 – 6 months. \nProgramming \nArtists-in-Residence are the originators of Flux Factory’s programming\, including most of Flux Factory exhibitions and public programs. All residents are given an allotted amount of days in the gallery to have a solo show\, curate a group show\, host a panel or forum or use it as extra studio space. Flux Factory provides a stipend to each Resident for their public presentation\, or to research or produce new work. Each year we have four month-long exhibitions curated by Residents and other Fluxers\, as well as an annual Artists-In-Residence exhibition. \nFacilities \nFlux Factory residents are free to use all facilities and resources\, as well as access to other city programs such as Materials for the Arts (two blocks away!). The building is equipped with a wood shop\, silk screen studio\, co-working office\, library\, kitchen\, large deck\, expansive gallery space\, and audio visual equipment. \nFluxhood \nAs a part of a community-run center for artists\, Flux Factory residents are asked to take part in the creation and maintenance of its facilities and programming. On Monday nights\, all Flux Factory residents and administrators attend a weekly meeting so that we may foster a sense of community and discuss the evolving needs of the program. \nResidents are asked to put in volunteer hours toward the maintenance of the space and a weekly chore. A constantly changing physical and social environment\, Flux is always a work-in-progress\, and there are many opportunities to leave one’s mark. \nCriteria \nThe Flux Factory residency is tailored to American and international cultural producers of all stripes\, social activists\, academics\, and anyone who’s creative\, adventurous\, and willing to come to New York City to create new bodies of work that are informed by their experience here. We are especially keen to have artists who have a socially collaborative art practice\, and have experience working collectively. \nSelection \nResidents are selected through our Open Call application process. Applications are reviewed by Flux Factory administrators and current residents. Prospective residents with standout applications will undergo an interview via Skype or in-person at Flux Factory\, if within a reasonable travel distance. \nCost \nThere is currently no individual financial support for a studio\, monthly fees for studios range from $725 to $1030 a month\, in addition to utilities. Flux Factory will write letters of invitation for grants and other funding opportunities\, and share opportunities for additional resources if available. \nIf you have any questions\, please contact us at maya@fluxfactory.org \nAPPLY HERE \nPARTNERSHIPS \nWe are pursuing relationships with funding organizations interested in sponsoring individual artists to partake in Flux Factory’s Artists in Residence program.  If you are a supporting organization interested in hosting artists at Flux Factory\, please contact us. \nRECENT RESIDENCY PARTNERS\nARoS Public\nArt Quarter Budapest\nArtiste En Residence\nNew York Foundation for the Arts\nResidency Unlimited\nTaipei Cultural Center in New York\nTrust for Mutual Understanding\nUOB Art Academy\nUkrainian Institute
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SUMMARY:Transforming America In Real Time! Building Community Through A Pandemic...
DESCRIPTION:Transforming America In Real Time:\nBuilding Community Through A Pandemic\nDecember 5 – 20 \nOpening Day: December 5\, 1 to 6pm EST\nGallery Hours:\nFriday 4 – 8pm\, Saturday & Sunday 1 – 6pm EST \nArtist Talk with Suga Ray and collaborators\nThursday\, December 17\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon Registration \n*All visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines.  \nTransforming America In Real Time! features photographs from events organized by Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston\, of Transform America\, a Queens Native and lifelong Queensbridge representative.These events ranged in their focus. Some photographs document a Social Unrest for Change Demonstration in which Marston and a group of activists and advocates held up traffic at the Queensborough Bridge for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd who was killed by a police officer. Another captures a Freedom Tour bus trip and walking tour of Washington DC with youth and adults alike. Ongoing local events include the Wellness Wednesdays Vegan Food giveaways at Queensbridge Projects. \nTransforming America In Real Time! is supported by the Flux Factory Rhizome Project. The Rhizome Project is a commitment to give intentional space to Black voices\, and provide a platform for Black narratives by offering the support needed to help these narratives thrive and evolve. The Rhizome Project is an evolving entity that will begin with a series of programs in 2020 and 2021. \n\nArtist Talk with Suga Ray and collaborators\nThursday\, December 17\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon Registration \nLashawn “Suga Ray” Marston\, born on March 14th\, 1984\, would endure a lifetime worth of pain by the time he was only 20 years of age; including losing his dad and oldest sister to cancer\, being shot\, going to prison\, and witnessing friends killed by friends\, but by a constant reflection of self and his surroundings\, he found his way and since 2008 has been committed to assisting in the elevation of humanity and the liberation of all oppressed people. \n\nSince his transformation\, “Suga Ray” would go on to receive numerous honors and awards from high ranking government officials\, his peers\, and countless others he has worked with\, on various fronts\, from various parts of the World. None of that has changed him as he remains committed to the mission of healing our hurting world\, and thus gives much more than he receives. “Suga Ray” is a peace activist\, food activist\, spiritual guide\, community builder\, public speaker\, universal educator\, program developer\, writer\, artist\, humanitarian\, podcast host\, and Founder of Transform America\, a community based organization operating predominantly in Queensnbridge Houses. \nDannelly Rodriguez is an Astoria Queens native\, an organizer/activist with the Justice for all Coalition and the Queens DSA. He is also a 3rd year law student at the CUNY School of Law. He works to empower public housing tenants to be their best advocates with respect to ensuring dignified housing and fighting to defund the police. He has helped organize rent strikes as a tool to solicit repairs for NYCHA tenants and to demand a Green New Deal for Public Housing. Dannelly is currently working on mutual aid and political education efforts within Queensbridge\, Ravenswood and Astoria Houses to support a network for the self-determination of these communities. As a lawyer he wants to be “the hoods” lawyer and plans on suing landlords and the police to build class power for his community. He fundamentally believes that people should have direct autonomy over their lives\, including their homes\, workplaces and schools and that policy should be shaped to support that. This work and this passion is what led him to begin working with Suga Ray. \n\nAdrian L. Childress was born in Germany to a single mother of four serving in the Army\, and he was raised in Texas. At 18 he joined the United States Marine Corps as an Infantry Rifleman. While completing two combat tours in Afghanistan he picked up his first camera. After capturing fellow Marines he decided to pursue a degree in Photography. Studying at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco he made a decision to become a photojournalist. He sees so many people/stories go unseen and wants to help bring attention to them using his camera.In 2019\, the “WE UNFUCK THE WORLD” project was born. The concept came from folks talking about how they would “UNFUCK THE WORLD” or what it means to them. Since becoming a photographer\, Adrian’s dream was to move to NYC. In February 2020\, he did. Adrian believes everyone deserves to be seen\, and everyone needs to be heard which is why he wrote the motto for the “WE UNFUCK THE WORLD” project as: \n\n“OUR VOICES\, OUR MOVEMENT\nUNTIL EVERY VOICE IS HEARD\nWE UNFUCK THE WORLD”\nThis work and this passion is what led him to begin working with Suga Ray.
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