VISITING ARTIST RESIDENCY

The Visiting Artist Residency allows artists to explore their practice and share their artistic experience with the Brooklyn Art Space community.  Each cycle, BAS offers one artist a free semi-private studio membership for six months in addition to exhibition opportunities at Trestle Gallery.  The Visiting Resident Artist leads one art talk, and one critique or workshop during the residency. 

Upcoming cycle:

Next Residency: December 1st, 2013 through May 31st, 2014

Application Deadline: November 1st, 2013

Please email eight jpeg images (750 pixels on the longest edge) of artwork, Artist Statement, contact information for three references and CV to: r.hurt[at]brooklynartspace.org 

Please write “Visiting Artist Residency Application” in the subject line of the email.

**We do not provide housing for residencies**

Current Visiting Artists: Erik Hougen & Jason Stopa

Erik Hougen was born in 1982, and graduated from Pratt Institute with his MFA in 2008.  Hougen was recently a resident with the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum, and a SIP Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City.  He has exhibited with Bronx Museum, the International Print Center of New York, Kunsthalle Galapagos in Brooklyn, and at Vaughn Massey Projects in New York City. He will also be included as a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, opening at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. in March 2013.  Hougen is the artist in residence at Kunsthalle Galapagos in Brooklyn, NY. Hougen is also a Master Printer and Intaglio instructor at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York City.

Jason Stopa is an artist, curator and writer living in New York.  Stopa received his MFA from Pratt Institute.  He is a contributing writer to The Brooklyn Rail, ArtUS, White Hot Magazine and Art In America.  He is currently the Editor of NY Arts Magazine.