How'd You Get That Awesome Residency?
This class takes a deep dive into the world of artist residencies, learning how to find, apply to, fund and make the most of the vast array of residencies out there. We'll look at many types of residencies and talk about how to prepare your applications through work samples, CVs, artist statements, work plans and budgets.
WHEN: October 11, 2023
TIME: 5-6:30 PM
WHERE: Online! The Zoom “class” link will be sent via email with registration confirmation. If you are new to Zoom, please log in 5-15 minutes before class begins to get yourself set up.
PRICE: $50 General, $40 Verge Members, $35 BIPOC
WHO: Adults, Artists
About the instructor:
Lexa Walsh is an artist and cultural worker based in Oakland who works an anthropologist, archivist, curator, facilitator and experience-maker. She fuses these practices to create physical and emotional spaces for social engagement and Institutional Critique, examining and creating social ties within cultural institutions both existing and constructed.
She is a graduate of Portland State University’s Art & Social Practice MFA program and was Social Practice Artist in Residence in Portland Art Museum’s Education department. She was a recipient of Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Award, the CEC Artslink Award, the Gunk Grant and was a de Young Artist Fellow. Walsh has participated in projects, exhibitions and performances additionally at Apexart, di Rosa, Kala Art Institute, NIAD, Oakland Museum of California, SFMOMA, Smack Mellon, Walker Art Center, Williams College Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and has done several international artist residencies, tours and projects in Europe and Asia. Walsh founded and organizes Oakland Stock, the Oakland branch of the Sunday Soup network micro-granting dinner series that supports artists’ projects. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Grand Central Arts in Santa Ana, CA, and is working on projects at Pro Arts & Commons and Free Oakland Up in Oakland.
She has taught HYGTAR at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Center, Kala Art Institute, Intersection for the Arts and as a personal coach.
@lexawalshinc
Photo: Courtesy of Eliza Gregory
Instructors
Lexa Walsh
Contact us
- Hannah Simons
- ed••••n@ver••••y.org
Classifications
Categories
- Professional Development
Age Groups
- All
Levels
- All