 So, we are recording this info session so that it can be made available for artists that are interested in this opportunity who weren't able to join us this evening and who are not going to be available to join us on November 6th for our in-person info session. This recording will be made available on the LP's website after the November 6th info session, so it should be used as a tool for you to reference as you're filling out your application and of course you should feel free to email us at info at laundromatprojects which we will share that email at the end of this info session if you have additional questions that come up. So, we are going to go ahead and get started. A lot of this information is already on our website but you know it's helpful to have it said and then obviously create a space for people to ask questions. So, this opportunity is coming through a partnership between the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling and the laundromat project. The museum will be opening next year and we're all very excited for it to be a place for children ages three to eight and their families to engage in art and conversation and programming that will be presented at the museum. This residency opportunity is one of several initiatives that the museum is organizing in partnership with other organizations and entities in Harlem. So, we're really excited to be a part of that. We as some of you might know have a residency program that is offered between June and October each year and it takes place it's artists that live in Harlem but signed Hunts Point that are selected to realize a public art project that is participatory and sort of responsive to their neighborhood in these three neighborhoods and it takes place in a laundromat. This opportunity is obviously very different in that the recipient of this award will get 450 square feet of studio space where they can make their work and they will also receive a $7,000 honorarium over seven months. So, while our residency also offers an honorarium and production budget it obviously is different in a sort of site location and sort of the requirements that are needed to fulfill the parameters of the residency are also different. So, we talked about the fact that you get this space and it's a private studio it'll be sort of towards the back of the museum. Within the museum there will also be gallery spaces where exhibitions will be happening and also museum staff offices. We talked about the $7,000 honorarium which again it doesn't include production budget so anything you can use that honorarium however you decide you know whether you want to just use it all for materials or you want to use it to pay you know personal expenses that's it's completely up to you and then there's a possibility that whoever is selected for this opportunity will be able to earn additional income by leading workshops for museum patrons. So, I think Warren could probably speak a little bit more to that but again it's a possibility so the really the the the major benefits are the studio space on the honorarium. So, artists should consider this opportunity if they have a demonstrated creative practice as a visual artist and so this should be documented in your work samples. We really can't stress enough the importance of work samples. It is really the visual narrative of your work so you really should spend time selecting work that you feel best represents your ability to work and you're at your highest capacity as an artist. Please don't leave your work samples as an afterthought. Often panelists will go directly to the work samples and then read the narrative but it is often used as a sort of informing visual sort of element to everyone to people's applications as it has been our observation. So really sort of spend time you know looking through what work samples make the most sense for this application. You know artists who have experience working with children's ages three to eight and their families should consider this opportunity and they should also it's not necessary that they you know be trained educators working with this particular age population. It is an intergenerational population when you think about children within this age range and their families but it's really just an artist that feels comfortable engaging this age of these ages I should say. Also this opportunity is great for someone who has an understanding or can relate to sort of demographics location or history of the Sugar Hill neighborhood or its communities and so that should also be demonstrated in your work samples and or the answers to the questions that are included in the application and so it's not to say that you have to live in Sugar Hill you don't have to live in Sugar Hill you don't ever have had to live in Sugar Hill like that you don't have to have sorry you don't have to have a history of living in the neighborhood but you should understand you know the neighborhood you should have a familiarity with it in some capacity or communities that live and work there and so artists also should be able to attend staff trainings to ensure the most successful interaction happens between museum staff contractors and all the visitors so this is really something that's going to be determined the schedule for which it's going to be determined once the museum opens but it's just to say that you know working as an artist in residence in this capacity is not going to just be being in your studio and being in your studio there are sort of other things that are connected to it and you shouldn't expect to be at a meeting every week but it will it will make that you need to like you know adapt your schedule to meet the meeting requirements for anybody who's basically going to be engaging with museum visitors so that the you know everyone can ensure that that experience is going to be of the highest quality so you should also be accustomed and or open to entertaining conversations with curious museum visitors about your studio practice and process so the way that this residency is structured it's similar to if you're familiar with the museum of art and design studio program or residency program they actually have a period of time where the public is open to come to inside of the artist's studio and have a conversation with them about what is what they're making or about their practice as a whole and so it's similar in that way if you will not have to have open studio hours for the majority of the time that you're in your studio but there will be set number of hours 15 actually to be specific where you will across it per sorry per week where you will have to have your studio open so that you can engage with museum visitors you should be at least 21 years of age to participate in this program and you should be able to like I said commit the 15 hours per week between February 2015 and September 2015 I'm sorry to be in your studio and then to also have some some face-to-face time with the public so this is again a sort of reiteration of what I just said but you should be able to participate in studio visit or sorry studio open studio events so the museum once the public programming schedules have been confirmed will say you know we're having an event can you have your studio open so that families can come and see what it is that you're making so you're you're very much a part of the fabric of the museum it's not to say that you're a rogue artist in like the back corner who's getting a free space like you're there to to be a part of everything that's happening and be a part of the community of the museum and you so you should also not be currently enrolled in any sort of college or graduate school program or other degree bearing program you know to really be able to fulfill the time requirements of being in your studio it's going to plus whatever else you're working on project wise or work wise it's going to be very hard to to do that and so we're asking that anybody who is interested in this opportunity is not currently enrolled in any of these programs so our selection criteria these questions are again listed on our website there is a downloadable link and I'll go to the website after this PowerPoint to show you exactly where that is located but there is a downloadable link that is a PDF where all of these questions and all of this information is saved so that you can reference it as you are filling out your applications so we're really looking to select artists through three sort of filters artistic excellence comfort working with children and familiarity with sugar hill so does the artist demonstrate a command of the mediums that are presented in the work samples does their work sample do their work samples illustrate technical strength is the applicants work conceptually strong is a candidate a visual artist so of course if you are a visual artist that includes you know performance in your work that's fine but you know there needs to be some sort of visual component there this opportunity is not ideal or not tailored to artists that are working in a performing arts capacity does this applicant have work samples or a CV that demonstrates a competency and comfort with working with children ages three to eight years old and their families so you know maybe demonstrating that is you know showing a work sample that shows you actually engaging with these with these age populations or perhaps it's documented on your CV that you happen to be an educator in a sort of working in the DOE system or as a teaching artist maybe you're just like an authentic you know community teaching artist where you don't necessarily work with any institution working with this age population but this is something that you happen to be doing in your spare time in some way through your answers or your work samples you should demonstrate a competency with working with children of this age range and their families and will your work resonate with museum patrons specifically children's eight children ages three to eight so that again this is a children's museum so the work that is submit or artists that are submitting work should also consider you know what is content that will resonate it's not to say that anybody's trying to censor the work that you're doing it's just to say that it should be relevant in theme and or material and so what is the applicant's familiarity with sugar hill do they demonstrate an understanding about sugar hills in neighborhood it's history and or the communities that live and work there so it's really very big it's very general it's a broad stroke and so if you can sort of connect to any one of those things or all of those things then you know your application would obviously be judged in a sort of strong light given the selection criteria given the selection criteria so and also would the applicants work resonate with sugar hills neighbors so there's actually also a section on the pdf that we have available on our website and that is does this applicant's work sort of relate to respond to or advance sort of cultural preservation participation community engagement and some capacity so that is also an area that will be included in the selection criteria and so if you consider your work you know something that is that is sort of solitary practice and that doesn't necessarily people don't necessarily need to be there to complete it in some capacity then you know this you should still consider this this opportunity but obviously be some of the selection criteria you know the panelists will be looking for work that does that in some capacity so you're the application materials you should be prepared to have a CV or resume on hand to upload to the application which we will look through before the end of this info session have work samples and so we have basically three sort of areas where work samples are three ways that work samples can be submitted one is through submitting up to eight still images of your work and you'll also have space to include a description of that of the work that you're submitting you also have an option to submit I believe it's two audio or video clips and a description to for those works or you can select the combination which is I believe four still images into audio video clips so you know those audio video clips can be made available through Vimeo or YouTube and if their password protected there's a space on the application where you can provide that password there are five application questions which we will review very quickly before the end of the info sessions you will also have to submit an artist statement which is limited to 100 words and also a bio that's also limited to 100 words and then you will also finally have to provide name and contact information for two professional references so it can be anybody that's worked with you in a professional capacity whether they were a colleague or a supervisor or you know anybody that you feel can sort of best represent how you work in a professional space so our timeline is such we are currently in the application window so applications are available on the website the link is available on the website for you to complete there is an option to start drafting your answers and save them for later if you care to do that we are currently having an info session now and we'll have the in-person info session on November 6th we will go through the artist selection process in December so the selection process is going to be a two-part process where shortlisted candidates will actually have a group interview with younger people and they will do sort of not a teaching but like a demonstration of a lesson and then finalists will then come in for an in-person interview and then we will announce the artists we will officially announce the artists in January but notify the selected artists in December and then we will sort of organize sort of a welcoming meeting between the artist launch grant project staff and staff from Sugar Hill Children's Museum in January and the residency will officially begin in February and go through September so something to note is that because the museum hasn't opened yet and they are you know constantly having to negotiate building sort of details that are out of their control there are some dates that will potentially be gifting just based on permits and the logistics that are related to building a new building so I think Lauren could probably speak to that a bit more but I'm just putting up a slide where you can record our email and number and I'll leave that up for a couple of moments and let Lauren respond to anything that she feels is necessary to clarify anything and then we will go to the LP website to walk through the application Lauren do you have anything you want to add yeah I think that the construction date is it's a really tentative set of circumstances but we really anticipate being able to move in by February the exact date in February you know is not clear yet but we were pretty solid on it being February as our move-in date and should anything change we would keep our you know finalists and our you know chosen artists up to speed you know and make sure that they're not you know short changed at all of their studio time we adjust the timeline appropriately okay all right so I'm going to just exit out of the PowerPoint and pull up the website and you'll all notice while I'm pulling up the website that there is a chat it should be a chat dialogue box at the bottom of your control panels and so that is where we will be collecting questions that is keeping an eye on that window and so we will be able to address questions at the end of the info session if you have them feel free to write them in the moment and then we'll just come back to them okay so I don't know if everybody was following how I traveled to this page basically I was at the home page the Launcher Map project site and I clicked the second this is the easiest way to get to it at this Juncture the second slide on the slider on the front on the home page so it's the artist apply now and there's a picture of the interior of part of the museum and then you scroll down and this is the the guidelines document that I was telling you about so it's a PDF where all the information that we discussed is available there is a link to the application and there's also an FAQ here so if you do have any questions you can first look here and you feel like it's not being answered then you can give us a call or send us an email so we tried to project which questions people might ask and we hope that we've answered them there but of course if you haven't please let us know and we're happy to also update the FAQ to reflect any sort of real-time questions so once you're on when you're coming back to the website if you click the apply now button this is the application this is the save my progress for and resume later button that I mentioned earlier there's also you know cross hyperlinked text that connects back to that piece that I just showed you let me just show you what happens when you save when you click save my progress for later you'll put in your email a password and you'll confirm that password and then that information will get sent to whatever email you included in this top field you should save that email so that you can access your application later so the instructions basically say you should consider drafting your responses in the sort of word document or google or whatever word processing service we use or application you use because this page you can't refresh it and it will while keeping it right you can't refresh it it won't if you do it won't retain that information so you'll lose it but it actually should give you a warning sign like are you sure you want to leave this page so that said don't don't do that just maybe draft it somewhere else and then just carry the answers over so this first window is asking for just basic information your first name and your dress and email if you have a website please share it this statement of commitment and understanding is just so that we know that you've read the guidelines and selection criteria and the FAQ for this program so you're saying yes I have read them and I understand what the program requires a commitment to be present in my studio minimum 15 hours and then I have to go to you know relevant staff meetings and and I need to participate in public programming at the museum so here are the application questions so you'll use this top section to sort of select you know what is the genre of art making that you fall under your work falls under rather every genre will be given equal consideration really we're looking at work samples and the answers to your questions as they fulfill the selection criteria so well the first question is what do you hope children will learn from engaging with your work the second question is please describe how your artistic practice reflects the relationship to the demographics location or history of the sugar hill neighborhood and its many communities what do you hope to accomplish with the seven month residency how will your work connect to museum patrons connect museum patrons to your creative practice and you can use this space to you know share what kinds of activities you envision leading during open studio or any other related public programs so maybe open studio is you know for you having conversations or maybe it's also leading you know workshops that are related to the work that you're you're doing or organizing a reading or you know organizing programming that is relevant to the themes and content of your work and then finally this is a really fun one how would you describe your work to a five-year-old so you'll use that area to do that all of these questions have responses that are limited to 125 words so that can either be really good news for you or maybe bad news if you're you know like like to provide a lot of information it'll you know be an opportunity for you to sort of edit and really provide the strongest text to illustrate your thoughts as they relate to the questions so again your artist statement in bio should be limited to a hundred words and you will provide it you know in this window and you'll see at the bottom that there is a counter so you can sort of keep track of things and then let's go scroll down this is the section where you'll provide your references and you should provide what your relationship is to you whoever you're listing as a reference and if they have an organization or company their affiliation you can include that here in their position but it's not necessary if that is not the case you will upload your resume under the browse button and then here is where you will be able to select what sorry what kind of work samples you want to upload so there are the three options that I mentioned still images up to eight here you will provide sorry you will provide the image caption so this is the title of the work and it should be labeled accordingly so title date media dimensions and here and we'll add that and then the description of the work so this is the area where you can give context don't use this section to write an essay use the section to sort of judiciously select the words that will best reflect the work sample and allow a panelist to understand what it is that you provided but really it's not the space to like extend the narrative of the questions that have been asked above this is the browse button that allows you to upload that work sample and so we ask that work samples are labeled accordingly so first name underscore last name and then the slide number so examples have been provided below I'm gonna show you very just the audio video and then skip the combination because it's pretty self-explanatory it's a combination of these two sections so the caption should go here using the same naming convention there should be a description a link for where it can be found online and a password if that's applicable you'll see that the video clip should be up to 10 minutes so that means that you should not upload 20 minute clips because it will just not position you in the best way for a panelist to really be able to get to the meat of your work finally there's a statistical information section this is optional this just better allows us to understand how you heard about the opportunity and sort of other demographics so that we can get a sense of who's applying for this opportunity and then that's it and the next page will just allow you when you press next it'll allow you to review your answers before submitting them and then you'll press submit that's it actually that's that's the run of it so we're checking the questions section and I don't see any questions so I don't know if you guys have questions that you would like to have answered but if you do you should feel free to type them so we'll just give a moment for that actually while you're and while you're thinking about if you have a question to ask Lauren if you could just quickly clarify the open studio requirements and the 15 hour weekly in your studio requirements you'll have every artist needs to be in their studio for 15 hours a week and then maybe just if you could explain a little bit about the if there is a difference or if there are additional hours that will accompany these 15 hours to be available for sort of open studio or public programming right I think the 15 hours is just a given and it doesn't include the occasional staff meetings which would not start until about April being that we are set to open at this hour with the schedule that we have in June right so April we'd start having training artists teaching artists and staff grow and we would like for the artist to be present for you know the one or two meetings that occur before they open just to kind of deal with just the various ways that we're all on the same page with greeting and embracing our guests you know from those with special needs to you know just what it means to to talk about any of the exhibitions that are on hand where the restrooms are so that we're all on the same page with those types of details and then you know I don't think that the open studio also is included in that 15 hour commitment and I think you know across the board lots of artist residencies require about 20 hours a week so this is um this isn't really uh when we were trying to figure out how many a basic requirement should be this this should not be too much of a strain and that 15 hours can be accomplished even like three days a week right um and the access uh we were really working for 24 hour access to the studios but it's still contingent upon kind of in this inaugural rollout year uh you know how things are coordinated with our security staff um you know but the goal is to give you 24 hour access uh to the site uh and and to your to your studio essentially anything else am I missing anything no I think that's good okay thanks okay well I don't see any questions so we'll see hold on let's see maybe there are some here we go here we go all right so do we accept PDFs um there's one question do we accept PDFs um of work samples um and the person that asks this question feel free to clarify I'm assuming that that is the context um the answer to the question is yes um we we have and we can we prefer jpegs but PDFs are totally fine um the uh requirements the sort of pixel requirements I believe are on the website are on the um I believe they're on the application section if they're not they pop I think it's like eight by no bigger than maybe four by six and 800 by 600 pixels I might be wrong but I'm gonna check um after the info session and if it's not there I will add it um if you're sending a PDF though then you know obviously it will be uh limited to sort of eight by 10 page that said you shouldn't um jam like 10 pictures on that one PDF we're really looking for eight work samples of course if it's a project that is um participatory in nature then really there's the sort of a gray area there and you can you know say like these four images are part of this event then the event is that one work like there there I think some some gray areas but it's just to say that you shouldn't be submitting like 10 distinct and unique works on one PDF um that one PDF should be or or jpeg it should be related to um one work I'm gonna take okay what kind of so here are more questions what kind of support will be there will there be during events and will the artist be expected to engage museum guests alone I think that you know ideally with our open studios uh you are expected to you know stand in your studio and you know be whoever it is be gracious and you know host company you know um you know children parents with questions it's your show but I think when we are asking for engagement with um with uh children and workshops that we would love for you to oversee uh which would be determined upon you know like in January like what is feasible what what works best for you uh there would be teaching artists staff okay I hope that answers the question we're going back um lots of questions um so the other question is uh where in the building is the studio space so I think I mentioned it it's basically and it's hard to obviously visualize this um because the museum's not open yet for tours but basically when you enter the museum you'll go sort of downstairs and then the studio is actually all the way in the back so it's not like you'll be the first um space that anybody sees when they walk in um they will have to have gone through the galleries um and pass the administrative offices and the the artist's studio is at the far right back of the building and um let's see where yeah okay so we talked about pds but in context to books um that's a really great question I would actually you know just and I'm bringing my own personal experience as a panelist and I will not be a panelist on this um on this panel but I would say that it would probably be in your best interest to sort of include an excerpt um and provide a description that creates an overview of the project because um if most people will submit sort of eight work samples um that are sort of eight distinct work samples of projects if you submit a booklet that is maybe 40 pages that's it's a lot of content and it's not going to give the panelists an opportunity to really spend time um with your individual work samples um in the given given each applicant that same amount of time so um I would I would consider sort of shaving it down if it is a booklet and if it's a booklet of only you know a few pages like it's really a quite a small booklet then sure um upload it but maybe make it you know a work sample for the middle or the end um and include um images um or other representations of your work that also tell that story so it really is sort of something that's not auxiliary but sort of supplemental to what what you sort of visually built through the other samples I appreciate everybody's patience and understanding about our screen sharing we did a lot of tests but you know again now that I've gone through this webinar this recording will be made available online and we will also we can also make the PowerPoint available online as well but again it's it is a re-articulation of everything that's on the website okay um and so if an artist is interested in connecting with local schools or community groups so that they can visit um and work on projects is that something that the museum would be interested in supporting so I'll let um Lauren answer that question repeat that one more time just is the if an artist is interested in connecting with local school or community group so that they can visit um so that those people those folks can visit to work on projects that something that the museum will be interested in absolutely I think we're already in the process of trying to have direct connections with you know um schools in upper Manhattan the south Bronx uh Inwood uh you know northern Manhattan so that is already in the works but if there is any particular school that you're really uh hoping to connect with that we don't have yet by all means we'll work hard to facilitate that okay um so there was another question um will we consider mid-career or established artists as well as emerging and the answer to that question is absolutely um really uh look to the selection criteria as the guide for how artists will be sort of um scored for this opportunity and it really it has nothing to do with um sort of length of time or professional sort of accolades that one has received over the course of their life as an artist it really is we're trying to find um the artists that will make the best match and sort of fit into the fabric of the museum while making their practice accessible to museum visitors so um by all means however you fall under those criterias feel free um there's something else that that should be mentioned um and I believe it's in the guide pdf guidelines I think um for your cv it's not necessary that you have an exhaustive exhibition history again so just coming back to that point of like where am I in my career am I you know a strong candidate if I don't have five solo shows or whatever um so the answer to that question is you should again feel encouraged to apply absolutely no matter where you are in your artistic career um okay so and then uh could you elaborate uh Lauren on the kind of support that is provided at events so that was a question from earlier um would you be able to elaborate on that kind of support again that's available um the artists during events yeah during events and as particularly workshops and you know engagement where you're leading a workshop we will have teaching artists on on on and we hope to also have a bilingual teaching artists as well because this is there are lots of populations that come speaking different languages primarily Spanish so we hope to have teaching artists adept in that if you're not an artist who's um you know adept in Spanish um and then you know it just really it's kind of like you know depending on how many people show up will determine how many additional teaching artists staff we have but I think we also uh you know these workshops will be limited you know it's not like you're expected to lead the workshop and then you know run around to each you know child's kind of project to be the only one in the room uh you know wrangling all of those entities there will be help so another question is will the artists keep all artwork and or copyrights to their work I think uh artwork yeah what you make we're here to support the production of new work there is no um you know I can tell you upfront that there is no expectation for us to keep anything I mean we really just want to be able to um you know facilitate the production of new work and to give uh children and you know families and visitors a sneak peek into an artist you know current process you know and I think you know the only expectation that we have is that you know you are available to showing this new work in your open studio you know kind of final commitment that happens in either August or September just you know just just what what is the result of your time here um so there are two questions that are just about the same um one was does the studio have um windows and the other one is there any natural light in the studio space and yeah oh go ahead I'm sorry no no no please go ahead please yeah we uh we do have natural light available there even though there are no direct windows for direct access to sunlight hitting the work it is um it is a room with you know three concrete walls and then one wall full of windows that I'm pretty sure we'll have like a shade so that you have your privacy uh you know throughout the duration of the residency but that window leads to a pretty huge hallway with a lot of skylight and so there is access to natural light but it is not like there is access to a view of the street and the light that comes with something like that um and then the final question is do we have to submit a specific project to complete during the residency or can we submit samples of past works I'm happy to answer that if you have immediate thoughts um that come to mind Lauren please feel free go ahead um so go ahead yeah okay um so the answer to the question is no you don't need to have a specific project but there is that question in the application that says or asks you know what are you looking to accomplish um during your seven months so if there is a if you say well I'm looking to accomplish this particular project then it would be in your best interest to probably include work samples that illustrate that project or sketches for that project I wouldn't use all of your sort of work sample real estate to spend time illustrating that project or um providing sort of breadcrumbs to it you want to also use that space to provide or give panelists an understanding of what your sort of body of work is um and so that they can get a better sense of you as a maker and that's a creative person um but if you say let I'm just using as an example if you say that I want to work on a project then back that up also with a work you know a slide or two or a video sort of sketch that illustrates that um but again it's not a requirement at all you can just say I'm wanting to use a space maybe I'm looking to sort of expand this particular body of work and then again if you're making reference to bodies of work then give the panelists an opportunity to see what those bodies of works are if you're looking to do more than one or if you're even if you are just mentioning one but again it's not a requirement um so sorry yeah we've answered that one already so um so yeah I hope that that answers the question oh um let's see okay just we're just revisiting our log of questions and making sure that we have answered them all um yeah I think that's it I think that's it we're just going to scroll down to the bottom I think that's it oh do projects need to incorporate community participation in the production or concept of the art so the answer to that question um is that again you know thinking if you think about what the objective is of the artist in within the museum um that is you know an artist that is going to create sort of another space of learning and experience for museum patrons and so um it's not it I don't want to say hard and fast you know every pro every artist applying for this opportunity needs to make sure that um they incorporate community participation but let's actually go to um I'm going to close out of uh this PDF and go to the PDF of the guidelines so here this this bullet that says and this is the one we will add this to our um PowerPoint but it says artists this this opportunity is ideal for artists who are not just interested in art for art's sake but who intend for their creative practice to bring about social justice cultural equity cooperation or cultural preservation so that's really the only sort of bullet that I can pull out um from what we have recorded here that might speak to that question but again it's um you know it's not it doesn't say in that bullet community participation per se but obviously the the strongest artist for this opportunity is one that um whose work rather is accessible to all the age populations that we talked about whose work um will be sort of relevant to the age populations and communities that live in sugar hill I live and work in sugar hill so um you can sort of determine um if that is you uh and if community participation helps you do that do not force community participation because a forced participation based project is not you know going to you know you can tell the forced the forced nature of community participation so don't feel compelled to include that if you feel like that will somehow make your application stronger um there was one other question should we submit samples from one body of work or several um you should give um you should give the panel a sense of what you're what you make and so a way to do that is not just you know submitting one body of work I would encourage you to use the the real estate to include a couple to maybe three bodies of work um if you feel like the the images that if this is if you're using the still image you know if you're using the still image you know if you're using the to maybe three bodies of work um if you feel like the the images that if this is if you're using the still image um option but um if you feel like the images that you have are visually strong it really can um convey the story about your work um and and and why make it or you know just gives a really strong representation of it then you know can maybe consider submitting two to three bodies of work you really just want you want the panelists to sort of look at your application read your answers look at your work samples and go okay this artist you know has a really sort of strong artistic ability and also um is responding to the selection criteria the questions that are under the selection criteria um I know that it's very vague and obviously it's specific to um it's specific to your work uh in you know in the past for our residency at the London Art Project we have made ourselves available for applicants to send in answers in advance because we don't participate on those panels either so we can be objective um and we provide you know very quick feedback depending on the demand we are considering opening up sort of application um sort of technical workshops or not workshops but um sort of consultations and people will be available will be available to depending on the demand um available to sort of answer sort of review your application to kind of just give you that um sort of third-party uh perspective so this is something that we've talked about it's something that we do for our residency and again depending on the demand we're we're considering doing that again so if you're interested in that shoot us an email um and we will obviously follow up um there was another um question do we have to submit a specific no we answered that already okay who will be on the panel great question so it will be um museum staff um and the and board members um and then a couple of just arts professionals that we obviously can't um reveal uh before the panel convenes so it'll be um again museum staff uh board members and a couple of arts professionals okay i think that's it for real so we hope that you enjoyed this info session um and again we'll you know have it on our website after the november 6th um in-person info session if you want to come and meet us in person um that information is available on the event bright page um that you use to register for this info session um so you again if you have any questions that you weren't able to ask here you should feel free to drop us a line at info at launcher mac project dot org or give us a call at 718-574-0798 i think that's it and thank you guys great all right thank you thanks bye bye