Language:
English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Founded:
2015
Duration:
1 week to 3 months
Paid by host:

A peer community of hardworking artists, Mothership NYC has no outside funding, so everybody on board must cover their own rent. However, knowing full well the brutal reality of the New York real estate market, the organization offers support for participating artists. They teamed up with other nonprofits to sponsor the annual NOoSPHERE Arts Residency Award: Once a year, a free month-long residency is offered to one talented international artist. Selected by a jury of international arts professionals, the award winner will spend their time on board developing a creative project for presentation to the NYC audience. Annual deadline: February 4. The awardee will choose a month in the following year as their residency period.

Throughout the year, Mothership NYC the hosting expenses related to presenting the resident artists’ productions on one or both of their Brooklyn stages.

Paid by artist:

Sliding scale rent for accommodations

Application guidelines:

There are no application deadlines for artists who pay their own way; inquiries are accepted throughout the year.
If you are just looking to spend a few days or weeks in the guestroom, please communicate to the organization when, who you are, what you do and what brings you to New York.
For anyone wanting to stay a month or longer, the following information is requested:

  1. A short paragraph about who you are and your artistic career to date.
  2. A website where we can see your work.
  3. A short description of the project you intend to work on while onboard with us.
  4. Your desired residency period(s).

There is no application fee. Online form

 

Deadline:
4 February annually for the award
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Mothership NYC

Mothership NYC

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Mothership NYC
Description

Mothership NYC is a combined live-work space and presentation arena for international artists across multiple disciplines in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, NYC. The mission is to support and promote artists at all career levels through residencies, public shows and collaborative opportunities build sustainable transnational artist networks and help retain creative forces in New York City.

Born out of the needs of emerging artists who come to New York City to take part in the cultural nexus, Mothership NYC was founded in 2005. With a huge roof deck serving as an outdoor stage, our community of artist peers gradually and organically evolved into a destination for art events and performances of all kinds, as well as lively dinner parties and improvised salons uniting creatives from many disciplines. The addition of an extra live-work space in late 2016 provided an impetus to professionalize the residency program. Participating international artists-in-residence are now selected based on merits as well as on their commitment to collectivism. It is aimed to host between 6 to 12 official artists-in-residence per year for periods from 1 to 3 months, as well as several short-term visiting creatives.

Today, the salons occur on a regular monthly schedule: On the 2nd Tuesday of every month, Mothership artists share the floor with local peers for presentations of their work, creative exchanges and good cheer. Additionally, the residents produce indoor and outdoor public events at a prolific pace, both onboard the Mothership and on their sister platform Last Frontier NYC.

The residencies support contemporary visual art practices and trans-disciplinary projects (including performance and performing arts, music, writing and curatorial proposals) promoting exchange, debate, experimentation and collaborative work. There are different types of residencies available: Production, Exploration, Micro-Residency, Presentation.

Residency Programming:

  • Fellow artists and other creatives/cultural workers are invited for the monthly open salon for an open-air art party/intimate indoor gathering where they can present their work to a very receptive audience of local artist peers and other arts professionals and appreciators
  • Artists’ dinners for international and NYC-based creative colleagues are hosted occasionally
  • During the warm months, the roof deck is used as a stage for creative productions across several disciplines
  • Residents can organize open studio events during their stay, including participation in the neighborhood-wide extravaganza, greenpointopenstudios.com
  • Collaborative productions can potentially also be hosted on one of the sister platforms, Last Frontier NYC and/or the KWBS rooftop stage
Outcome

Artists-in-residence work on a project and show results or do their research without a fixed outcome. There are no mandatory requirements, but most residents choose to avail themselves of the opportunity to present their work at the monthly salon.

Studio Information
  • "Screw Room" has a separate, moderately sized work area that allows visiting artists to work in virtually every discipline but ceramics and large-scale sculpture.
  • "Cabin" only has a work desk and limited floor space, so this room is more suited for computer-based work (literature, curatorial, graphic design, etc.) and small-scale drawing.
Accommodation Information

Mothership NYC is a combined live-work space and presentation arena for international artists across multiple disciplines in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, NYC. Their converted industrial loft has three berths for permanent crew members (all 30+ years-old female creatives + a ship’s cat named Pusillanimous), as well as two spaces for shorter-term visitors:

  1. Live-Work Space (aka Screw Room), available to rotating Artists-in-Residence for periods between 1 to 3 months. The Screw Room can accommodate a duo for up to one month.
  2. Guestroom (aka Cabin), available to visiting creatives for periods between 1 to 4 weeks.

6 residents can be hosted at once. The space is not suitable for children. Artist use only.

Technical Information

A range of different presentation arenas are available. Visiting artists have access to a basic printer, essential tools, bikes, and various supplies/materials left behind by former Mothershippers.

Location

Located in New York City, in the industrial part of the waterfront neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Contact information

252 Green Street
Brooklyn
NYC, NY 11222
United States

Email
info [at] mothership.nyc
Phone
17183898228
Website
http://www.mothership.nyc/