About the Workspace Program

Established in 1990, the Workspace Program offers annual residencies to New York State emerging artists to create new work in handmade paper. The program seeks to encourage emerging artists to explore the creative possibilities of handmade paper, develop this art form, and promote the Workspace artists through exhibitions of their work produced at Dieu Donné, as well as through print and digital format.

Resident artists will be selected by panel & interview process to participate in the Workspace Program. Each artist will receive a $700 honorarium, advance preparation of materials, and professional assistance during a seven day collaboration (days are non-consecutive). The staff consults with each artist in order to strategize a logical approach in realizing their work through handmade paper. They will also prepare the pulp, solve technical issues and collaborate with the artist in the fabrication and drying of the work.

Applying for the Residency

Applications will be accepted in spring of 2010. Click here to join our mailing list and stay informed about when the application is available.

Each spring, our online application form will be made available online. The Workspace Program is open to emerging artists who live and work in New York State. Dieu Donné defines an emerging artist as "an artist who is professionally unrecognized but stylistically evolved." Artists from all disciplinary and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Applications will not be accepted from students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs during the program year (July 2009 - June 2010). Applicants must be New York State residents and must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. Applications are only accepted via our online application; please do not mail or e-mail application materials.

Applicants will be asked to submit ten JPGs suitable for projection, a CV or resume, and a short essay on how a residency at Dieu Donné might further their artistic practice.

Current Workspace Program Artists

Dieu Donné is pleased to announce the Workspace Program residency artists for 2009-10: Glen Baldridge, Jennifer Cohen, Ian Cooper, Matt Keegan, Chris Nau, and Michael Schall.

Further Information

Dieu Donné provides sheet forming capabilities up to 40"x60". The facility includes 2,000 square feet of wet/dry floor space, a 2,400 PSI hydraulic press, two 10 lb. and one 2 lb. Hollander beater, worktables, studio tools and a wide range of papermaking fibers, vats, moulds/deckles, felts, boards, glass/metal sheets, cotton cloths and neutral pH blotters used to dry pressed sheets.

The collaborations and the finished artwork are documented by photography and video and included in the Dieu Donné archive for study by artists, students, collectors, and curators. The artist owns all artworks produced during the residency; however, each artist is asked to donate two pieces to the Dieu Donné Archive of Paper Art. The archive is used as a study collection and for exhibition purposes. Dieu Donné presents exhibitions in its gallery and curates off-site exhibitions of paper art, in which Workspace artists are often included.

This program has provided workspace to artists Tomie Arai, Amy Bay, Roberley Bell, Christine N. Blair, Sonya Blesofsky, Miriam Bloom, AJ Bocchino, Nina Bovasso, Brad Brown, Beth Campbell, Anne Chu, Gregory Coates, Nancy Cohen, Elisa D'Arrigo, Lisa Corinne Davis, Dale Emmart, Ming Fay, Elise Ferguson, Rosemarie Fiore, Rachel Foullon, Michele Godwin, Kirsten Hassenfeld, James Hegge, Elana Herzog, Carter Hodgkin, Eric Hongisto, Wen Yi Hou, Wennie Huang, Mary Judge, Sarah Kabot, Marguerite Kahrl, Jennifer Krauss, Peter Kreider, Margaret Lanzetta, Matthew Lawrence, Adam Licht, Noah Loesberg, Shawne Major, Karen Margolis, Michael Mazur, Joyce McDaniel, Charles McQuillen, Laurie Ourlicht, Timothy L. Palmer, Alyssa Pheobus, Cynthia Porter, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Barbara Schwartz, Arlene Shechet, Jean Shin, Peter Simensky, Kiki Smith, Jane South, Susanna Starr, Oona Stern, Allyson Strafella, Barbara Takenaga, Mary Temple, Cynthia Thompson, Mary Ting, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Chuck Webster, Shirley Wegner, Gloria E. Williams, and Therese Zemlin.

Click here to watch a video of "Artists & Admin," a panel discussion hosted by Dieu Donné on the current state of New York City's workspace residency programs, moderated by Patricia C. Phillips, chair of Cornell University's Department of Art, on Friday, December 21, 2007, at 6:30 PM.

Support

The residency programs at Dieu Donné are supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs; and foundation support including: Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Cowles Family Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mary Biddle Duke Foundation, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Joan K. Davidson (The J.M. Kaplan Fund), the Lauder Foundation, Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., the Marden Family Foundation, Inc., the Renaissance Charitable Foundation (The Dresner Sadaka Family Fund), the New York Community Trust, Cashin Family Fund, Nancy and Fred Poses, Hurst Family Foundation, Susan Hess, Lenard & Fern Tessler, Carol and Michael Weisman, The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc., Anthony Sosnick, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, and individual donors. Current as of 3/31/2009.