The AIRspace program offers time-based residencies to
emerging and mid-career artists and cross-disciplinary curators, providing free
workspaces, opportunities to present/exhibit works-in-progress, and curate
exhibits and performances in the Abrons’ galleries and theaters.
Visual Artists Residencies
The application deadline for the 2012-13 Studio Residency
is May 1, 2012.
Each year the Abrons awards residencies to five visual
artists.
Beginning each September, residents are provided a studio
for 11 months within the Abrons facility. Throughout the residency, meetings
and studio visits are also arranged with critics, curators, artists, and other
art-workers. The program provides a range of career development opportunities
throughout the residency, including educational work within the Abrons
education and gallery programs, as well as an Open Studios weekend, and a
culminating group exhibition. Among the artists selected for the AIRspace
program are painters, printmakers, photographers, sculptors, and video and
installation artists. Residents are selected by a juried panel of professional
artists, critics, curators, and Abrons Arts Center staff.
Curatorial Residencies
The application deadline for the 2012-13 Curatorial
Residency is May 1, 2012.
In 2010, AIRspace expanded to accommodate one curatorial
resident who receives an office space and the opportunity to curate three shows
in a variety of exhibition spaces at the Abrons Arts Center. The Abrons’
Visual Arts Director assists in the Curatorial Resident
in the formation of a curatorial advisory board to foster an ongoing dialogue
for the Resident’s individual writing and exhibition interests.