About the Workspace Program

Established in 1990, the Workspace Program provides annual residencies to New York State emerging artists to create new work in handmade paper. The program encourages emerging artists to explore the creative possibilities inherent in the hand papermaking process, to develop this medium as a contemporary art form, and also promote the work produced in residency.

Workspace Resident artists will be selected by a panel and interview process. Each artist is paired with a master papermaker creating a unique collaborative experience where a new medium can be quickly learned and put into practice. Experimentation is highly encouraged throughout the residency.

Current Workspace Program Artists

Dieu Donné is pleased to be working with the 2011-2012 Workspace Program residency artists: Firelei Báez, N. Dash, Fabienne Lasserre, and Saul Melman.

Applying for the Residency

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The Workspace Program is open to emerging artists who live and work in New York State. 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 2012 - June 2013). 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 to answer a few questions regarding their working process and how a residency at Dieu Donné might further their artistic practice.

Further Information

The Dieu Donné Workspace Program residency includes introduction to the medium and process, 5 days in the studio with a dedicated papermaking collaborator, 2 papermaking workshops, an exhibition opportunity in the Dieu Donné ground floor gallery, and digital documentation of all the work created during the residency.

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.

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.

Program offerings and the number of awarded residencies are subject to change.

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

For any questions regarding the Workspace Program or the application process, please write workspace@dieudonne.org.

Support

The artistic and educational programs at Dieu Donné are made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legslature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and Foundation support including: Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Cowles Charitable Trust, Dedalus Foundation, Inc., Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Greenwall Foundation, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Lauder Foundation, The Minnow Fund, Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber Foundation, The Renaissace Charitable Foundation (The Dresner Sadaka Family Fund), Rolin Foundation USA, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and major individual support including: Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, Cashin Family Fund, Agnes Gund, Susan Hess, Hurst Family Foundation, The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc., The Marden Family Foundation, Inc., Nancy and Fred Poses, Anthony Sosnik, Lenard and Fern Tessler, Von Rydingsvard and Greengard Foundation, Carol and Michael Weisman, an anonymous contribution and individual donors. Current as of 12/9/2011.