I am DELIGHTED to share the brilliance of artist Lexa Walsh with you all in this one-time workshop, 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.

Lexa Walsh is an artist, cultural worker and experience maker.  Her upbringing as the only bad athlete in a family of fifteen, and coming of age in the Bay Area post punk cultural scene of the 1990’s informs her interest in alternative lifestyles, economies and communities. With a background in both sculpture and social practice, Walsh makes site specific projects, exhibitions, publications and objects, using an array of materials and employing social engagement, institutional critique, and radical hospitality to question hierarchies, power and value. She recently relocated to the Hudson Valley.

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 at Apexart, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, FOR-SITE, Grand Central Art Center, Kala Art Institute, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 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.

She has taught HYGTAR and Professional Development for Artists at The Alternative Art School, Americans for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Center, Kala Art Institute, Intersection for the Arts and as a personal coach.

How'd you get that Awesome Residency?!