 All right. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us in this info session for our CreateChange Fellowship and Residency program. My name is Atui Ramos-Ramin. I am the director of programs at the London Art Project, also an alumni of the program. And yeah, today we're going to walk through this process, but I want to pass it on to the team. Thanks for joining us. Hi, everyone. My name is Lady Sasha Jones. My pronouns are she, her, and hers. And I am currently the artist engagement manager at the LP. Hi. My name is Tiara Austin. I am she, her, and they've been pronouns and I'm the programs associate at the LP. We are super excited for this year's open call and what we have in store for the upcoming cohort of fellows and artists. We're really happy to have you all join us as well. During this info session, we will take you through the program overview and guidelines here from one of our program alum and close with answering any questions you may have for us. If you do have any questions while we're presenting, feel free to drop them in the chat, but we're going to answer them at the end during a live Q&A session. So feel free to drop them, but we'll definitely circle back to answer them. And a quick access note. I'm currently sharing my screen. But if you look to the bottom right of your screen and you are in need of captions, feel free to hit the turn on captions button and you should see the live captioning begin after you hit that. We are also recording this session just to let everybody know. And we're going to make it available to view for reference afterwards via our YouTube channel. And so that being said, that being said about the recording, if you feel comfortable having your camera off, feel free to do so, considering that you're also asking folks to keep your mics on mute for the duration of the session. And I think that's all of our access notes. As I already said, feel free to drop anything in the comment box if you need any assistance, technically at all. Now I will pass it on to my colleague, Atsui, to give an overview of the Linger Mac project. Great. Thank you, Tiara. And thanks again for joining us. So I will begin just briefly sharing some foundational details about who we are as an organization and just give you a little bit of grounding about that. And then we'll just move forward. So just so you know, we can go to the next slide. The Linger Mac project's mission is to advance artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. And we do that through many ways, so residencies and fellowship, which we'll go through today. So next one. And what it's important is that we envision a world which artists and neighbors and communities of color work together to unleash the power of creativity to transform lives. And we do this by making sustained investment in the growing community of multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists and neighbors committed to societal change by supporting their art making, community building, and leadership development. And also, you know, one of the things that we are proud of and what guides all our work, it's that we ground our work in our values so we can go to the next one. So, and this is basically what, you know, all the things that we do, even internally staff members, but also with our programs is where we are, you know, grounded. So just briefly, nurture creativity. This is the work that we know we believe that everyone's creative in their own way, including, of course, artists. We have people of color center organization, which is very important for our mission. And, you know, we create change through our arts and culture, and in value place, write our own histories and be propelled by love. Just want to go briefly through those. There's more details about all this on our website, but just wanted to, you know, give you a quick rundown of those. And our values are the core of who we are. And the great change for the structure around this. So, what we, what's important for us that we ask participants and applicants, you know, to share, which LP values resonates with them the most. This is a good application process. And this is a question simply, you know, to prompt some understanding of the violence alignment perspective, you know, and the way the candidates are just being in the program. So, so you'll see a question that we'll go through that later, but you'll see a question there. So, let's see, when we go to the next one. So, this is a brief summary of our program. So, we have residencies and fellowships. And, you know, the thing is that we have this combination of locally grounded and thinking about creative activations. And we do different ways of, you know, collaborating with community members through this work. So, we're just in a big transition moment in our organization. And one of the things I wanted to share with you, we just announced yesterday that we're very excited to, you know, share that we'll be, our work will be based in the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy. This is our, you know, our dream for, since we started back in 2005, where we wanted to have our program space and our office administrative space combined to one location. And Bed-Stuy is actually where we were founded originally. So, we want to go back to our roots and connect with the network of artists that we already have, that are in central Brooklyn, and also with community members there. Of course, this program is bigger than that, but just wanted to give you a quick, you know, update on where we are. And actually wanted to invite you to next week, we have an open house that we'll talk more about the things we'll be doing there. So, I just wanted to just mention that. So, I hope that gives you a quick grounding and understanding of the context. The program itself is not going to be in Bed-Stuy, but we'll leave that on to my colleague to talk more about that. So, pass it on to Lady Sasha. Hey again, everyone. I'm going to go through two sections. One to give an overview of our curriculum pedagogy, as well as I'm going to introduce some of the key elements of our fellowship program. Next slide. So, since 2005, the Create Change program has supported more than 165 multidisciplinary artists and 80-plus community-based projects as well. The 2021 program will mark our 16th residency cohort in our 11th fellowship cohort, which is super exciting. During the program, artists will meet with a diverse roster of peer activists, arts professionals, curators, change agents, you name it, offering a diverse offering of strategies for creating work at the intersection of art and civic action. The program is heavily structured around artist learning and creating within a cohort setting, practicing peer-to-pea exchanges as big to the ways that we approach our work, both peer-to-pea exchanges and collaboration. Next slide. To provide an overview of our pedagogical framework, there are three learning blocks that I want to share with you all and go over and they're what really base or ground our curriculum and what we shaped our curriculum around. You'll see that they are reflective of our tagline, the LPs tagline, which many of you may be familiar with, which is Make Art, Build Community, and Create Change. Participants within both the fellowship and residency program will work deeply with this framework throughout the program. So the first, Make Art acts. What role does art, culture, and creativity play in making meaning, shifting narratives, and creating change in the world? Participants will examine a range of artworks across the fields of social practice and create a place making that line with the LPs approaches to cultural asset mapping and leadership development. Next slide. The next one is Build Community, which invites artists to explore how can art and cultural practices build trust and accountability with communities, particularly the communities they're working with, but community at large. Participants will explore approaches to fostering attunement with community rhythms, building reciprocal partnerships, and the art of meeting people where they are. Next slide. Our third and last learning block is Create Change, which addresses power and leadership, which are huge themes, reoccurring themes throughout the program. So understanding that and how the ways in which power exists within ourselves and within our communities, understanding how do we, or questioning how do we creatively leverage power for equity and positive societal change. So really mapping power dynamics is something that we focus on and have then returning to year after year for the past few years as we've been strengthening our curriculum. So participants will explore personal collective relationships to raise power and privilege in order to facilitate social transformation through their art and cultural practices. So the next slide is where I'm going to transition to talking about the fellowship program. As you probably have read, the fellowship program is for artists and cultural producers who are interested in developing and deepening a collaborative community-based and social-engaged practice. The program is shaped as an intensive learning practice model that seeks to develop workshop and generate ideas that incorporate the LP's values in our community-based methodology or approach. This year, fellows are encouraged to apply with a cultural arts project idea that they wish to develop and include, sorry, that they wish to develop and incubate throughout the program. This is actually a pretty new feature. Usually fellows do not apply with an idea or a project that they are interested in working with and developing, but since this year will be virtual, we are focusing on supporting the speculative design of our artists, like supporting our artists with designing projects and helping them, incubating them as much as we can. It's a new element of the fellowship program that we're very excited about. So with that, we're looking for artists for the fellowship program who want to explore strategies for entering and building within a community using our values and our method as a foundational approach. Next slide. So the program format, the program features a few different kind of elements. The biggest one of the, what's at the core are a series of workshop trainings. We also have, which will probably meet those trainings, will probably bi-weekly or trying to have one or two, or at least two a month, sorry about that. Also, we have a one cool offering of individual and group coaching sessions with our cultural organizing coach, which have been a staple of the program, I believe since 2013. It's actually a really, really wonderful and helpful and resourceful feature of the fellowship program. We have weekly office hours with LP staff. This is something that came out of us pivoting to the virtual space this year. And so, yeah, any, I think we'll pick a day and one gets to check in with staff as they wish on anything from creative practice, the person creative practice, the project they're working on, some of the group work that we're doing or any element of the program or anything really. It's really just open, like open door office hours. The program will culminate with the public presentation where each fellow will present their work. We're thinking of this as a big, culminating kind of digital program that'll take place at the very end of the program. And just note the fellowship is a six month program scheduled to take place between February and either June or July. We're still coming with some final dates around the final presentation, but that's pretty much the length. And yes, the entire program will be conducted virtually across a series of digital platforms. Google Hangouts is something that we use internally at the LP, but also Zoom and we're thinking of we're investigating now some other applications or platforms that may kind of like strengthen the virtual experience for our artists this coming year. And also for the first time, each fellow participant will actually receive a modest stipend of $500. And it's something that we've been working hard towards to make, to include. I'm also an alum of the program, I was a fellow in 2013. And back then the program was not a free program we paid for the past few years. It's been a free program. I like free of cost for artists. And now for the 2021 program, we're actually offering a modest stipend of $500. So that's something we're super excited about. And eligibility, next slide. So yeah, we'll go, we're happy to go over more of this during the Q&A. If you have any questions about anything that's listed here that I'm going to say, feel free to put it in the chat. I'm going to field the questions, Atoi and I, so we can make sure we get to them at the end. But for the fellowship, we're looking for candidates who demonstrate a practice or deep interest in socially engaged art or community-based art, are in alignment with our values and POC principles. You'll see questions around that in the application are at least 21 years of age, are not enrolled in a degree seeking program at the time of the program. And are preferably based in NYC, but can be temporarily or recently have left the city. And we included this, which I know it's kind of funky and seem a little fuzzy, but we just wanted to recognize that, you know, due to COVID-19, a lot of artists possibly who have called the city home and have built community here have possibly recently left or temporarily based outside of the city and just still wanted to make the fellowship open to them. So, yeah, if you have any questions around that particular point, please do not hesitate to email us. Happy to answer any questions we may have around that. But the last two eligibility points are for looking for artists who are committed to working collaboratively within a cohort setting. As I said, that's a big part of the program. And are familiar with the cultural history and local issues impacting communities of color. Yeah, I think that's, that is it for me. On to Tiara. Alrighty. So I'm transitioning to the residency program. And just to provide a brief overview, the residency is our flagship create change program that supports the development of participatory and community attuned creative projects by artists working within the community. And just just to note that community is explored broadly here at LP. So we're including geographical community, but as also our encompassing communities of affinity and identity. So also a little note that in the application, we ask you to describe your connection or investment to your proposed community, but we're going to do some more kind of deep dive on shifted to accommodate our current moment, which will allow for artists projects to occur fully digitally for the first time. So you may also elect for a project to occur in person or a combination of both, but that fully digital component is definitely a new kind of addition for our moment and this year. And for those of you who are looking to carry out in person projects, our application also does ask that you reflect on how you ensure the safety of community members. And then let's see else. Oh, yeah. So just to share that the, as you can see in the screen past projects also have taken place at various community sites from launching mats and urban gardens and playgrounds and community centers just to give you a little tip of that. Right. And moving on to the program format. So the residency is a year long program. So runs from January to December and offers a total of $20,000. So 15,000 of that is Honorarium is completely yours to use as you wish. The other 5000 is for production costs. So anything like documentation or a software technology that you need of many of the things have come through as production costs that we definitely love to support our artists as they're carrying out their projects in that way. And then the non-monetary support includes similarly to the fellowship, the 10 workshop trainings and coaching sessions with our culture organizing coach. And then separately from the fellowship of different public program opportunities, including open studio sessions. So each artist will have their own kind of open studio session as a public program to ensure that work and monthly meetings without the program staff. I think as we're mentioned, very like office hours, very kind of open time for us to connect troubleshoot things in your project, your personal practice, personal life even just like a time for you to just like download what's happening and kind of keep the LP in the loop about you know where you are and think about how we can best support you at the moment and write out the shifts and changes as you know are inevitable at this time. And then finally, we have a one to one mentorship program, which is a new component this year. Well, not this year, sorry, in the past two years, I should say. So that would be kind of a process in which we pair residents with an art professional or cultural organizer or change agent more generally in the field that you are wanting to connect with. And we offer that person a stipend and really it's just an opportunity for you to develop your creative practice alongside somebody that you look up to and want to be in conversation with with monetary support that's provided by that. And the last thing is that we are selecting three artists projects for the 2021 program. And so that's three other three individuals and or three folks who are applying as a collaborative just to share that type of information. And next we have the residency program eligibility. So ideal candidates for the residency would really have experience developing collaborative and community based projects. They would also develop development demonstrate an alignment with LP values and also have the capacity to kind of work in a group and have a strong background in community organizing and outreach strategies. And the more kind of granular eligibility points for the residency is that it should be 21 years of age be currently based in New York City or have significant kind of community connection to the city as we're hyper local in our work and are committed to that. Folks would also be committed to co-creating a community art project and finally folks would be familiar with the cultural history and issues that are impacting the community that you're proposing to work with. And I guess you're going to see that come up again in the applications I said before thinking about that investment in the community that you're kind of proposing to to be in collaboration with and or yourself. Alrighty so I'm going to pass it back to Lady Sasha for the open call. Hey again. So I'm going to give some quick details about the open call. We can go to the next slide. Awesome. So yeah the application closed this on October 18th. I love at 59 p.m. Easter standard time. I advise folks to try their best to get it in before that deadline. If anyone already has experience with submitable you know the platform can get a little shaky towards towards the the final minutes or beats of an application open call. So just try your best to get it in a little bit before at that level 59 deadline. And just to share that we are aiming to complete the selection process by early December of this year. The key dates that are noted in the slide is just a guide for how we they are or can play a guide. They as a guide for how we structure the selection process. So as you see here after the applications closed DLP staff will actually review all the applications ourselves internally and we select a short list of candidates to events on to the interview panel round. First we conduct a series of individual interviews with residency candidates on Friday November 13. Please mark that date in your calendar. For folks who who advance on to that round we have a series of slots that we make available when folks get to choose a time that works best for them. The panel will not only include LP staff but members of our artists and community council. They serve as our jury panel for this stage of the selection process. Each interview will last no more than 30 minutes and it's formatted around or our suggested format is a five-minute kind of project pitch if you will by the artist and then a Q&A. The remainder time is left for the jury to engage you in a Q&A kind of interviewer discussion. The next day on November 14th as you see here we will conduct a group interview with our fellow candidates. The fellowship interview is shaped as a big group interview and includes a series of small group activities. That interview session will run for about an hour for both interview panels. They will be conducted virtually and attendance is mandatory if you want to be considered for the program. I know that we do not have the times particularly the time listed for the fellowship one but closer to the time I should let you all know when and where it will happen. It will be in early afternoon just to share and I believe we can share this right now. We have our scheduled panels running from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both of those states so those interview times will be somewhere within there. Following the interviews to share as you'll see on the application we do ask for a reference. After that interview round we do call all the references the folks that you indicate in the application so please provide the correct contact information just to share we usually email folks and ask for permission before just giving them a ring so there definitely aren't any cold calls so they'll get an email first and just to note that letters of recommendation are not required. I think that's it. On to Atwe to dig more into eligibility as well as the application. So thank you ladies and gentlemen this is just I hope you're able to see this closely and if not we have the PDF of this presentation so you can actually see it better but just to give you a quick summary of what we've been talking about and just you know briefly so that it's free to apply you don't have to pay any fee to apply for this program um let's see uh the folks that are required and then this is divided into new new applications and then alumni because alumni fellows are able to and eligible to become residents so this is also part of the the what we offer so to our alumni that have been part of the program um so so there's a requirement to attend to the virtual gatherings all the workshops and you know meetings and things like that is for the new applications and it defines a person of color in particular is for residents uh that's is always been part of our DNA to be able to do that so we keep that's continuing um applicants have to live for it or they are very accountable to their own community or affinity geographic geography or identity so that's mostly for the residents are actually working uh they you know should have uh already some connections to communities that they will like to work with um uh eligible for residency of course the folks that apply for residency on their own and then the alumni fellows as well like I was mentioning the commitment you know it's between five and six months the fellowship so this for the fellows and then there's a year-long commitment for the residents so it's 12 months in that you know all all of the things that we that Lady Sasha was explaining earlier um and then so and just to clarify and I think that might help with some of the questions um so the difference the big difference right now between the fellowship and the residency is that you know you apply the with our cultural project that is to be actualized so to be made in the real world that we support that that's for the residency and for the fellowship is the same thing the only difference is that we would like to support you know it's more about ideation and support um so the project does not have to be you know happen in the real world just kind of give you that uh distinction and then the who's eligible for you know after this is the thing this is a great thing about and then we don't talk as much about this but I think it's important to note is that after you finish the program after you're done with you know our our relationship in in through great change it doesn't end there you know we continue doing different kinds of opportunities and and and and for alumni so we have different kinds of programs that we do that we'll be doing in the community we have workshops we have special projects we have special commissions and micro grants and different kinds of opportunities that once you've graduated from the program you know we have to say that once lp fam always lp fam so you know we will like to continue our relationships you know through you know the years after this so there would be different opportunities available for you um if you know after you go through that so just mention that and then the honorarium is $15,000 for honorarium for the residency and $5,000 for production and then $500 stipend is for you know the fellows and then the last part is that you know one of the things that we do as part of the alumni engagement work is that we have a network of all the folks that have been through this program since we started in 2006 doing this residency and then the fellowship later on so you'll join a network of practitioners in the field there's different kinds of you know things that we share there's job opportunities there's other you know support and resources that would be that would just kind of have ongoing so so just wanted to share that with folks so just give me a quick summary of some of some of the things that we've been talking about just to kind of summarize it in this way I hope this is helpful so I think it's next slide the application so I think I need to share my screen a little bit here so let's see the and I think you might need to yeah I think I might need to you to stop sharing your screen so I can share mine that's okay so I just want to do a quick just to highlight a couple of things to about the application itself just to give you you know some pointers and hopefully clarifications so just give me one second while I am able to get to that um one second actually hold on hold on one second just having a technical thing okay well anyways I'll just go through the questions because it's you know self-explanatory um so we're doing the application through submittable I just having some technical thing I just don't want to keep the time going more so basically you know in submittable that's the link you'll see it on our website but I want to go through two two questions in particular that will be different for fellows in the residence they're basically very similar applications but there's a couple there's two differences there I want to just go through that for a for a minute so under the residency application you know we we ask regular things around you know why you want to be part of the program that kind of thing but the important part is you know in terms of for the residencies in particular you know it's you know we would like to have a product description what is it that you would like to do our kind of format or you know form will take shape if it's you know in digital it's going to be virtual in person what ways that's going to be our combination of those um what is the what is your vision for the format of the project that you're thinking about of course they have to engage community in one way or another so you know that's that's at the core um so and so far and we also because of this moment that we're living and we want to make sure what are your what plans do you have to make sure that folks are safe and of course there's resources that we have that we can share but just want to understand from your perspective how will your project engage in a safe way with participants uh community members you know to to cope with um and then you know what are the ways that you would like to engage that community so what's the role of the community members um and then what relationship do you have with them um and then you know if you have any potential partners and things like that that you would like to share um and then just a brief timeline you know and we understand things change and things you know they don't have to be perfect i'm going to do this on you know september third and then on october 27 i'm going to do this we don't we're not interested in that because we understand that is a year ahead but at the very least we'll get a sense of what is your thinking around planning so it's very basic timeline and then finally it's the budget so if we have a template that you can follow if you like you can also send us your own if that's easier for you it's just a pdf upload like a document upload um so that we get an understanding you know what are resources you're thinking about what is the um uh how you're thinking about you know support and this apart is five thousand dollars you know we think about the the 20k 15 is for you to pay your rent to the whatever you want you know it's your salary in your other area um and the 5k is mostly for production and if you have any other funding resources that you uh have already applied to other grants or anything like that that you would like to include as part of you know if if if for example your project is more than the five thousand dollars that's what we are able to commit but if you have other funding sources that you'd like to add to your project you're welcome to you know add that there and just indicate that on the budget uh so that's you know very straightforward and simple I hope um and yeah that's that's pretty much it for the residency the other questions are very standard so I just don't want to go through those uh and then for the fellowship the difference oh and one thing just to note if you have if you have this is the first time you're applying for the residency or uh if there's a question if you would like to be considered to be a fellow in the case that you were not been you know don't get selected so just keep that in mind if you that's something that might be interesting to you um so and then for the fellowship uh so it's similar you know we would like you to describe a project idea that you you know exploring that you would like to get deep more in the community engagement work and have want to learn more about our methods and kind of incorporate some of those ideas into your own project and this is a short description of that and then thinking about what areas that you think would you like to strengthen your application and your you know project so oh I would like to have more expertise in community partnerships or you know I would like to collaborate with community in an ethical way or whatever you know things that just indicate what things you would like to you know focus on um and that said there's no budget or anything like that for the fellows because you know we're not expecting you to do it in the real world uh in the real time just may say that um during that so yeah but that's pretty much a quick summary of the difference in the application process uh you have to have a submitable account those kind of things you know you can do and just to uh one thing that I would like always wanted to um share is uh make sure that you know when you do applications technology as you know things don't work sometimes and sometimes you know internet goes out or whatever if you have a word document or somewhere else or notes or you know pay whatever it works for you just to make sure that you have your application outside of submitable and then just copy paste it there just to be safe because things happen and and you know just to have a sabbatical that will recommend you to do something like that um and then the other thing is that the application usually closes at midnight so it is like automatic so just don't wait until the last minute uh so that's it um and we'll we'll we'll take some of the questions later on but I hope that gives you some context and ideas um so let's see uh yeah we can talk about criteria and things like that on the question q and a because we're want to give some folks time to talk more about um the next part so and I think we have someone that is um join us today um let's see and this is an alumni of the program we wanted to bring someone that you know uh has been with us uh last year and before that she was a fellow uh as well and we're really excited that she's able to be here and uh Bianca Monet uh and she did an amazing project last year um with basically oral history based uh and it was exploring uh and expanding and uh notions of abundance uh thinking about spirituality process of birth vitality and wellness and she was working in particular in bed style in brooklyn um and she conducted a series of oral histories that turn into soundscapes and uh story different kind of form of storytelling and to document you know uh the different folks in points of view around wellness and health uh in particular and and and and and she's you know it was interviewing doulas moms spiritual practitioners alternative medicine professionals um and basically she created installations and uh and presented the work at a community garden as part of her process of culminating event it was a beautiful event and a great and wonderful project and and Bianca's here joining us today and I just have one question for you Bianca uh when you get a chance to meet yourself and it's basically um what was your what was the biggest learning experience that you had when you were a resident last year that you would like to share with folks or any insights about you know your work around that big learnings from last year thank you for joining us hi hi everyone how are you doing tonight good okay can you hear me yes okay great so um thank you for allowing me to come and share my experiences I've been involved um in many different ways for maybe over 12 years with the laundry mat project um so to answer your question a couple things I walked away from and I still consider um when doing projects now but um how we enter and exit community became um central for me and um how do we do that with respect and integrity and consistency um and then this idea that although you may be exiting a community in a particular time and space you really have to question if you ever really exit that community um and do you really want to exit that community so that's something I still think about today I also um are you guys working with Ebony this time I'm just curious yes yeah okay so um you know in a series of workshops and consultations with other cultural folks in particular Ebony I remember one time she asked us um what are you going to do if nobody shows up because all of our projects tend to be very um I think the word is participatory oriented so especially for what I was planning I needed folks to show up and be there some other residents were doing like theater productions some people do things with their hands but everyone kind of has to be there in order to make something anything around healing involves somebody to heal or someone to be you know in in conversation with around healing and so that for me um made me nervous one but it also made me it helps in conceptualizing what the culminating event would look like um and how would I get folks there and how would I um engage with uh people so what came out of that was I do oral history and sound art but Ebony said to me um what your practice is very like one on one based and I'm keeping my camera off because turn on my camera just stops on the internet um so apologies about that um so what I ended up doing was a live oral history component around food so I have a friend um there's East African and he had all these stories about the food that he grew up with and how uh you know just he just shared narratives of food um and memories memories of certain uh certain dishes that were significant to him and he cooked those dishes and brought it so you know being challenged to consider how people will engage with my process outside of the one one interviews that I do or being challenged to consider how do you get people to participate so not only did they witness a live oral history or my process but then they tasted food and had the opportunity to ask questions um and then I had an exhibition around the garden of the final product of the sound arts gates that I created with these interviews so what what I walked away with was sometimes you have to do um multiple levels of engagement with community uh and and we were in that garden I believe all day um yeah it was an all day event and so every two hours we were doing something just to keep folks interested so we kept um different people coming in and out every two hours food was a major component during the day or ended up being a major component um so I hope I answered your question I feel like I remember now so I'm gonna stop there no thank you appreciate that um can you hear me yep okay so uh thank you for sharing and I think this is a good moment thank you I think it's helpful I think it's a good moment to uh have folks um go through the questions is that okay and then Bianca stay here if you have any questions in particular for her um and we can go through some of the questions that you know we're shared some of folks some folks here questions beforehand so we have some of those here and then we have collected the ones that just came through this session and we're gonna go through them now that sounds good cool um let's see so uh yes is a fellowship program only for experience artists um no basically you know this is part of the the short answer is no uh you don't have to have you know a mfa bfa whatever you know uh degree or anything like that um we're interested in you know we firmly believe that creativity and creative you know production does not have to have a degree or a preparation like that so uh we are open to different kinds of experiences and backgrounds so yeah I hope that answers that so you don't have to have a degree or a special training or anything like that this should be a creative practice whatever that is but we don't require you to be you know yes I hope that helps that helps there's another one next one how that helps too ladies and gentlemen can you take that one or should I all right so I can go ahead go ahead right uh yeah the next question uh asks is there a geographical focus or theme for the program uh so no there there are neither uh for for uh either of the fellowship or residency programs um like I shared earlier fellows will be workshopping the design of speculative projects and residents can propose projects that are shaped around any community of their choosing whether that's a community of geography preferably if it's a community of geography it's it's nyc base but also communities of affinity or identity and also I think to the question that octway also just answered um there were a few questions around um that said acts if there was a certain discipline um or a creative medium that that the program is shaped around and the answer is no where we have artists who are food practitioners and chefs to draftsmen and drafts women are um yeah painters photographers performers I think there are a lot of questions around performance art being um it's it's performance art and eligible medium or um discipline and and yes it's it's all open it's all eligible um yeah yeah I hope that's helpful just to add including actually there was a question about clothing design and we're open to that we actually had a resident artist a couple years ago that was part of her practice so yes um we're not looking for a specific medium so yes if clothing is what you do that's great should we go to the next slide yes and I can take the next one and if my captains aren't working I can also drop the answer into the chat um so the next question will the program convene in person online or mix of the two so we are planning for the 2021 creative program to be fully virtual all of our convening sessions will be scheduled to zoom or who will meet alongside engagements across other digital platforms as we said we're playing around trying to make it exciting um we are taking learnings from the series pivot to virtual engagement to enhance next year's format and so we're really thinking deeply about community building um amongst the cohort and kind of more problematic opportunity and offerings to kind of keep the um program dynamic um and so I can drop that in the chat in case my um captions aren't working if that is the answer to that one um let's see and I think we can advance to the next one now sorry that was me I was trying to put both of these questions together so they two different registrants asked this question I thought that that one response that TR just read kind of fit both of them so how will so in addition how will the next cohort be organized differently and uh Lex here I said we are taking a lot of the things that we learned from this year and trying to strengthen next year's program um and I think community building is the thing that we are really focusing on because it's it's something that is as we all have shared the cohort kind of feels a big part of the program and how to also get the artists to collaborate in exchange amongst one another is something that we're trying to keep keep uh keep going strong I guess I don't know I'm losing words right now uh although we'll be digital and virtual so all the different platforms that will be um accessing um well hopefully uh be to the benefit of at least keeping some of those core elements of the program alive I'm sorry I think we'll see the next one sorry that I repeated in TR I can take that so yes you can apply as a collective actually the project I did as a resident resident is back in 2012 was um we were a collective so yes that is how are we going to judge with regards to collective work proposals so what we're looking at is the work that the collective has done together um so if you work with this person or you know group of folks before um great just include that work and just mention that in the application itself if this is the first time you're working with this you know collaborative partner um just make sure that the work is represented for both you know folks that will be included in the work so in the actual application so yes next one all right I'll do this one so and this is connected to this you know folks that have been out of the city I'm gonna come back and you know um we are very interested you know one of the things they just want to just there's you know two two things I'll say one is uh there should be a connection to New York whatever project you're doing or you're proposing there should be a connection to you know New York um and either you know the community you're working with is in New York or connected to has connection to New York or you have connections in New York or you know or that way or you are based in New York so uh that's what you know what we're looking for um yeah we in terms of you know providing any kind of support and if you want to move to New York for the first time to do a project we don't we are not able to do that so let's say you know you're going to relocate just for this there's we don't have resources to be honest to you know support something like that um but yeah but the projects themselves there has to be a connection to the city in any borough doesn't have to be you know let's die next one uh I think uh no I would be at would like to add to this question or anything because we have a couple of more questions that were shared no I don't have anything I'd like to add to this one I was going to move on to the the questions we have in the chat oh you can't hear me can't folks not hear me can you hear me can you hear ladies Asha I can hear you both or tiara I can't hear anybody okay yeah I think you're lagging but we're all we're all good I'm sorry okay so I'll I'll go on to the questions that popped up in the chat um so there was one I'm sorry I I have a name that folks butcher all the time um so my apologies for doing that to folks but Shefa Q asks who should apply to the artist residency versus the fellowship program I think that uh the graphic that outweigh shared that kind of blue and white table kind of gets at that program uh that that that question my sorry um I think the biggest difference is uh really at the core with those those the two programs are uh the fellowship is more of a kind of training collaborative um program for artists who um yeah kind of want a more not foundational but a non-practice-based approach to engaging um with our curriculum whereas uh the residency is uh is deeply seated as a practice-based program so folks are applying to the residency if you have a project that a project idea that you're really excited about and really want to develop and um see manifested I think that you should definitely apply to the residency um and as outweigh said um earlier a lot of our fellows return um to become residents again we really believe in supporting our alumni artists um so that pathway is definitely something that's open to artists who may not have a project at that time or may not be ready or um yeah ready or have the capacity to continue developing the project within a year a year timeline um I think the fellowship it could definitely be a place to start um and to build from there there's another question and maybe someone else um I can jump in but if someone else has anything else to add feel free uh but Jesus Crenand does acts um can can it be a project that already exists and follows those values and approach um and I want to say yes right outwe I guess the folks are applying with applying to the residency with projects that are already in motion and already active I think that that makes sense um and I think there's already precedent for that as well right yeah and there's definitely we've done that before so yes um yep I think that's short answer is yes it doesn't have to be a new project can be an expansion of it or something but for added yeah uh there's another question I imagine a portion of this year's programming occur online can staff share any reflections or thoughts on what might be make it accessible online hybrid residency project um hmm yeah we had to change really quickly we decided we made a decision that we wanted to continue doing the programs without you know regardless of what happened so we just changed quickly to do everything online um so let's see I think that uh one of the lessons I we learned and maybe I'll speak for myself but you know I think it's probably what I call this is you know I think that uh making it very intentional especially online how do we uh build relationships in community because we don't you don't have this thing as like oh I'm going to get a snack and you kind of run into somebody and chat and like make this you know personal connection so that's very hard to do online so we're really thinking about you know how can we of course we there's no way to replicate that through this medium but we're really thinking hard about how do we get to a place where folks really are connecting more than just you know through the little boxes that we're all in at the moment so that's I think is the biggest thing we're adapting for next year um and I think for the projects uh let's see some of the artists have changed the way that they connected with you know community members or you kind of thinking more about instead of in person doing interviews online and things like that so those are some yeah any other thoughts yeah I would say you know one of the things that I don't think that this language made into our open call texts like our final copy but you know I think we're definitely leaning into projects or excited have seen from this year that our artists who leaned a little bit into the analog kind of made for successful pivots I mean I think next year is a little different than what our current artists in residence um have journeyed through whereas you know they planned for in person projects um but next year I think for folks will either um either you know possibly proposing projects that are digital analog or have that hybridity as you you mentioned Sonia where many things are are both online and in person I think um yeah I don't know I think that it's a big question that a lot of our that our field is addressing like what the social practice and community based works look like in this moment of having to be socially distant um and how do you balance those modes of safety and community care with also developing public artworks and what is the role of public art in this time so um I don't know I think that it's it's it's a good question and something I'm interested in seeing how artists um really develop and approach this through the project proposals but if you want to chat a little bit more happy to um yeah I'm happy yeah please send us an email at apply you know you have our contacts on you but I'm trying to address it for folks who probably aren't alums um but yeah email us uh happy to chat a little bit more especially if you have an idea that you're still working through um yeah happy to bounce ideas and brainstorm ideas with you just briefly because we're a little over time there's two questions here um one is what supports are the uh are there for artists doing the residency for the first time and so basically there's funding so there's $20,000 that will you know give the artists to do their project distributed throughout the year for one year um there is coaching sessions um there's the workshops if you this is the first time if you're if you have not been a fellow then you know you there's a workshops series that we provide that there's a lot of different contexts and and community building and conversations about building uh community attuned art projects um there's a staff uh support that you know we have office hours and things like that uh to just you know check in with you um and finally there is um we also have our communications team which is you know uh not we have Asia here but we have folks from the communication team that will you know make sure that the project is documented and there's different ways we've done that in the past I share earlier a link for videos that we've done but with we have blog posts blog posts and we have you know um uh social media and other ways to engage and amplify the project so those are the kinds of you know things that resident gets um yeah can I speak to that too sure um so you don't do your project alone you have a whole administrative emotional spiritual team that supports you and and it's um it's really decadent so you'll you will walk away from the laundry mat project like what i'm going to do now because you had someone um doing budgets for you you had someone doing marketing for you you had someone ordering you supplies like the laundry mat project is um 100 percent involved in your project with you so you're not alone in the process thanks for that yeah thank you for that do you want to do the last one before we close out our play good uh it's five thick uh question is what are you looking for in a reference uh maybe i'll ask you to help tag team uh with me on on this one but i mean a reference can be anyone it's not just professional references just to share they're um and it doesn't have to be like by professional i mean it does not have to be like an employer or um yeah an employer or someone like that either present current past uh folks have uh shared mentors uh community members they've worked with artists that they've collaborated with in the past um uh past professors or teachers that they're still in touch with it's it's been an array of folks um and all of that has been um really helpful i mean last year was first time that we well i don't know that we called i think both uh we we made it a big point to to to reach every reference and we're going to do that again it was really helpful and i think what we're looking for is just someone who can um uh attest to like character and um modes of collaborating um any experience or notes they know or things that they know about your creative practice um possibly someone that has worked with you or or know what it's like um or have witnessed uh you in action either your creative work in action and or if you're a community-based artist uh that that degree of your work um i don't know tiara am i am i missing something is there another element you found um from the reference yeah i think we pretty much have it you know someone who has either you know experience working with you in a group that can be a pair you know that's an important component of the program and building a cohort of artists um or someone who knows about your desire to work within community to learn um to grow your capacity to learn and be flexible um and like ladies officer said that doesn't necessarily have to be an employer or you know anybody who has a hierarchical relationship with you can be you know a pair an artist to friend in that way just someone who can attest to those kind of qualities and and your desire to do this work great well thank you we're a little over time but we hope that you know we were able to um answer your questions and i hope that this was informative um we're very excited that you know we have the time to you know uh be here and that you took the time to speak with us so uh with that the application process uh the the page closes on october 18th at midnight um we have all the links on our website uh if you have still have any questions feel free to email us uh we'll be happy to you know uh answer um and yeah we'll have this up in our youtube channel uh shortly in a couple if you maybe next week so you want to go through some of the things that we spoke about have questions and things like that and we also share the power point so you can also you know use that as a reference uh feel free to reach out and we're here we're excited and looking forward to connecting with you and looking forward to uh your applications so thank you so much thank you have a good night y'all good night hi beonka i just want to say have a fire half off