Artfactories

Center for International Art in Community - NEW YORK

2007-06-04T16:49:35Z

Contact

Meral Agish, Outreach Coordinator
Phone: 718 757 6469
meral@freedimensional.org
www.artincommunity.org

Description

The Center for International Art in Community (CIAC) is a pilot artist
residency and community center in Central Brooklyn. Located at the
Magnolia Tree Earth Center, it partners with its gallery to introduce
the local community to international artists in residence. CIAC
provides artists, activists, and citizen journalists with residential
and/or studio space for two to four-month periods; creates interaction
with community youth through our Syndicate 19 program; and organizes
programs with city-wide outlets that enable both artists and youth to
promote their work and discuss their experiences, fostering awareness
of human rights issues in the community.

Policy

Resident selection is based on the urgency of individuals' situations
(need of temporary safe haven); achieving a diverse professional range
(discipline/media); potential to contribute to a collaborative
project; and achieving a diverse age, gender and regional make-up.

The Center for International Art in Community (CIAC) is located in the
neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Community Board 3, Central
Brooklyn in New York City. Bedford-Stuyvesant is an international
community with the combined assets of its diverse make-up. As with
other urban communities around the world, the national and ethnic
plurality of Bed-Stuy (and much of Central Brooklyn) can be attributed
to the global economy. Whereas social exclusion, economic
marginalization, and environmental injustice are reasons for migration
(or immigration) these conditions often persist in the redefined areas
that accommodate new citizens. This is compounded by a lack of local
programs that engage with diaspora networks and social capital,
transnational political affiliations, and hybrid aesthetics that
characterize membership in one community as well as movement to
another. CIAC seeks to fill this void and draws inspiration from its
partner centers throughout the freeDimensional network.

Kulana / Hawaii

2005-08-04T18:45:36Z

Name of the responsible structure Kulana: The Affordable Artist Sanctuary
Type of structure :private retreat/creative community
Profile of the initiators of the project: founded by individual artist
Continent : North America
Country : United States of America
Address/tel/fax : c/o Cristina Salat
P.O. Box 190 -
Volcano, HI 96785
Tel & fax: (808) 985-9055
EMail : mailto:discoverkulana@yahoo.com
Website :http://panpolynesia.net/kulana
Contact : Cristina Salat, Beth Kaplowitt

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Description

Kulana is an inexpensive
creative retreat where one can enjoy artistic
endeavors, spiritual practice, personal growth, and
the healing recharge and growth of the soul...An
environment that is diverse racially, by age, sexual
orientation, food choice, spiritual preference,
etc...An alcohol/smoke/drug & drama FREE zone which
reflects the Hawaiian kulana principal of cultivating
an attitude of joy from within...an on-going
co-creation in progress by like-minded individuals on
the brave, fun, sacred, inter-dependent frontier of
creative community.

Location : rural
Owner of the building : Founder

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Infrastructures / Facilities

Two story main house.Upstairs is community space for all to use with fully equipped kitchen, dining room, living room (with library) and bathroom (sink, toilet, bath/shower. Downstairs, there are two guest rooms, and the founder's rooms. Additionally, there are two freestanding cabins for guests. There is also space for camping. All indoor spaces have a double bed, electricity, and additional amenities which vary by space. There is also a freestanding bathhouse which provides an additional sink, toilet and shower.

Social and artistic disciplines

Space for folks to develop their own projects!

Atlantic centre for the arts - Florida

2004-12-06T18:44:34Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure : Atlantic Center for the Arts
Type of structure : Non Profit Corporation
Profile of the initiators of the project : artists collective
Continent : North America
Country : USA
Address/tel/fax : 1414 Art Center Avenue
New Smyrna Beach, Florida 32168
tel : + 1- 386-427-6975 or 800-393-6975
Fax : + 1 - 386-427-5669
Mail : program@altanticcenterforthearts.org
Website : www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org
Contact : Jim Frost

Description

Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writer's studio, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging artists - through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently. Atlantic Center for the Arts provides housing (private room/bath with work desk), weekday meals (provided by ACA chef) and 24 hour access to shared studio space.

Former use : always an artist community
Total surface of the site : 72 acres
Architect of the rehabilitation : Will Miller (phase 1 and 3), Thompson and Rose Architects (Phase 2)
Renovation costs of the building : 5 million dollars
Location : rural suburb
Foundation year of the centre : 1977, first residency in 1982
Type of occupation : owner owned
Owner of the building : Atlantic Center for the Arts

Infrastructures / Facilities

Studio Complex

Nestled on a 69-acre ecological preserve among the palmettos and pine forest on the edge of pristine Turnbull Bay, Atlantic Center for the Arts provides a tranquil yet stimulating setting that inspires artists from around the world to rejuvenate, collaborate and create. Envisioned and founded by environmentalist, painter and sculptor Doris Leeper in 1977, the artists-in-residence facility brings talented artists from different disciplines together to work with distinguished masters in the fields of visual, literary, performing and musical arts.

The original buildings, the Administration Building and Gallery, Whatmore Commons and Thompson Fieldhouse were built in 1982, and designed by architect Will Miller. Phase One of the $3.1 million Leeper Studio Complex began in September 1994, and included the construction of the black-box theater, the painting and music studios, and the renovation of the Whatmore Commons.

Phase Two construction began in March 1996, and included the addition of the dance studio, library and sculpture studio. All of the buildings are made of stained cedar, with lead-coated copper roofs, keeping true to the rustic Florida Cracker-style. Inspired by the site's dense, jungle-like vegetation, Charles Rose and Maryann Thompson of the Cambridge, Mass., firm of Thompson & Rose Architects, designed the Leeper Studio Complex as separate structures connected by a winding boardwalk. Both separated and linked by the boardwalk and the jungle, the studios each afford the necessary privacy and spatial focus for individual creative activity while the boardwalk acts at once as theater, street and informal gathering area - a space for interdisciplinary discourse and collaboration at the Center. The firm has received numerous awards for the design of the Leeper Studio Complex.

Beginning in summer 2003 Atlantic Center for the Arts will start construction of a new Visitors Center. Architect Will Miller, the original architect responsible for the first buildings completed at ACA, will lead the project. The Visitor s Center will provide a destination for visitors to the Center and will have considerably increased office space, exhibition space, and meeting space.

Ruth Scorgie Hubbard Music Studio

The 1,000 square-foot tower-like Music Studio was designed to be insular and uplifting. It is a vertical space without windows, but a large skylight connects the vertical space of the room to the sky. The acoustic-paneled and cedar walls reach skyward, with a tall roof monitor to admit daylight. Permanent sound panels were added in the skylight; other portable panels along the walls can be moved to affect the sound. The recording studio is outfitted with a wide-range of music and recording equipment.

Wilkinson Resource Library

The 876-square foot library, overlooking Turnbull Bay, provides a large reading room lined with books on three walls with archival storage and video viewing facilities. The library also contains computers with access to the internet and printers, CD's and video tapes. The library's collection is continually growing through generous donations from artists in residence.

Helene B. Roberson Dance Studio

The sprungwood floor of the 2,609-square foot Dance Studio is encircled by a ring of sand-blasted windows 15 feet above the floor, while a band of clear windows at the floor level looks out onto the densely textured vegetation and sentient landscape. The dancer, moving in the zone between these two windows, hovers between earth and sky. The walls are birch plywood, and an air return acts as a sculptural element, but functions as a bench. There are no windows on the areas adjacent to public walkways to ensure dancer's privacy. However, the magnificent sliding doors lead to a semi-private deck and create a breathtaking connection to the environment.

Writer's Studio

The 468 square foot writer's studio features a unique floor to ceiling window that looks out onto the lush landscape of scrub oaks and palms. The studio, tucked away at the edge of the Roberson Dance Studio, is an open space, with multi-person work desk with printer/copier/scanner, a conference table and chairs, as well as comfortable furniture for reading, talking, or lounging. Writer's use the studio to host meetings, individual conferences, or as a place to work.

Charlotte Battle Everbach Painting Studio

The 1,885-square foot Painting Studio is fitted with large northern exposure windows and light monitors that can be opened to provide natural ventilation, light and air. These monitors have glass roofs and allow light to enter from above while, at the same time, sidewall louvers can be opened to induce natural ventilation through the “stack effect.” The panels on the walls are made of replaceable homosote, and allow canvas to attach easily. Work tables, easels, and portable walls make the space extremely flexible and accommodating.

Joan James Harris Theater

The dramatic black box theater acts as a functional workspace for artists-in-residence as well as a performance space. Measuring 2,500 square feet, the design concept is to provide a space that can be manipulated to fit the changing needs of each residency. Events and performances are held in the round, as well as in a traditional theater-style seating arrangement. The theater is also equipped with a complex lighting grid, which is changeable with each residency. The gallery in the protruding glass lobby is used as a secondary exhibition space.

Jim and Alexis Pugh Sculpture Studio

The only concrete studio within the complex, the 1,233-square foot Sculpture Studio is symbolic of sculpture's earthy materials - metal, stone and clay. The long overhang on the studio patio shelters an outdoor work area which is linked to the indoor space via three roll-up doors. When these doors are fully opened, the space flows easily from the interior to the exterior. The linking trellis structures also serve to blur the transitions between interior and exterior. The climatic conditions of East Central Florida - light, wind, air, rain - and their phenomenological effects are reinterpreted and tempered through the use of louvers, which mottle direct light. Large glass walls serve to maximize the ambient northern light; wind scoops help to ventilate, and also act as light monitors while large linear scuppers gather the torrential rain.

- Fieldhouse / Mac Lab

The fieldhouse, one of the original two studios at ACA, was originally a place for writers and composers to meet and work, as well as the kitchen for all artists in residence. Since the addition of the Leeper Studio Complex in 1996, the space now serves as the Mac Lab, a shared space for all artists in residence. The Mac Lab houses the vast majority of ACA's technology equipment and has high-speed internet access, as well as additional access points for laptops.

Social and artistic disciplines

Visual, literary and performing arts

see the residencies' program

Financial support:

State, NEA, private contributions

PICA - Portland - Oregon

2003-12-04T23:00:00Z

Contact
Initiators of the project: Executive Artictic Director, Kristy Edmunds, with a group of individuals
Continent : America
County : Oregon (USA)
Address/tel/fax :
219 NW 12th Ave. #100
Portland, OR 97209
tel. : + 1 503.242.1419
fax.: + 1 503.243.1167
Mail : pica@pica.org
Website : www.pica.org
Contact : Victoria Frey, Director of Public Relations and Operations

Description

PICA is dedicated to advancing significant developments in contemporary art, by providing resources which engage audiences in creative and critical dialogue, and empower artists and art professionals to create challenging work.
PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art) acknowledges and advances the emerging ideas in new art by fostering the creative explorations of contemporary artists.

Former use : none, built for us in 2000
Surface of the site : 8000 square foot space
Location : Pearl District, Downtown Portland
Foundation year : 1995
Type of occupation : lease
Owner of the building : Wieden and Kennedy

Infrastructures

The facility houses :

a 2,200 square foot gallery for visual exhibitions,
a resource center library of contemporary art (books, videotape on performances and lectures organized by PICA, art contemporary magazines from all the world)
office space for the PICA staff.

Social and artistic disciplines

performance art,
experimental theater,
contemporary dance,
new music
visual art : exhibitions (6 exhibitions a year ), workshops , residencies (see below) , production

Opening of a new Festival, in septembre 2003: TBA (Time Based Art) Festival. It's a ten days festival (in septembre)on performances, events, workshops, open rehearsal, discussions, artists lectures, conferences. Various spaces are used: galeries, restaurants, hotel rooms, theatres, parks, warehouses, clubs all over the downtown area of Portland.

Artist Residencies : PICA's residency program promotes an expanded regional experience by connecting national or international artists' creative explorations to those of the local art community. Residencies enable these artists to create new work within our region, utilizing the material resources and creative talent specific to the Northwest, while offering arts audiences greater exposure to the creative process. Visiting artists also participate in workshops, forums and other outreach activities with the community at large.

FINANCIAL PARTNERS

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (for the artistic activities)

The Point - New York

2003-10-15T16:19:11Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure : The Point Community Development Corporation
Type of structure : non profit organization
Profile of the initiators of the project : arts organizers with experience and artists
Continent : North america
Country/ state : NEW YORK DC
Address/tel/fax :
The Point Community Development Corporation
940 Garrison Avenue
Bronx, NY 10474
tel : + (1 - 718) 542-4139
Fax : (+ 1 718) 542-4988
Mail : thepointcdc@hotmail.com
Website : www.thepoint.org
Contact : paul lipson, executive director

Description

THE POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is a non-profit organization
dedicated to youth development
and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx.
We work with our neighbors to celebrate the life and art of our community,
an area traditionally defined solely in terms of its poverty,
crime rate, poor schools, and sub-standard housing.
We believe the area's residents, their talents and aspirations, are The Point's greatest assets.
Our mission is to encourage the arts, local enterprise,
responsible ecology, and self-investment in the Hunts Point community.
THE POINT was founded in 1994 by Maria Torres, Paul Lipson, Steven Sapp, and Mildred Ruiz .

Former use : historic American Banknote complex
Environment: South Bronx
Foundation date: 1994

Artistic and cultural disciplines

Youth development: scholarship programs, summer activities programs, camps, Internet access

Art and Culture: visual arts, fashion, theatre, dance, music (cultural heritage tours for Latin music), media and communiaction, photography...

Community: environment, advocacy...

Infrastructures

Dance studio
Theatre studio (rehearsals and rental space)
Rental studios: for events, meetings, parties
Exhibition room

Flux Factory - New York

2003-07-15T16:44:16Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure : flux factory
Type of structure: 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
Profile of the initiators of the project: artist collective and independent gallery
Continent : North America
Country : United States of America
Address/tel/fax :
3838 43rd Street.
Long Island City, NY 11101
tel/fax:1 (718) 707 3362
email: info@fluxfactory.org
Website : www.fluxfactory.org
Contact : Stefany Anne Golberg

Description

Flux Factory Inc. is a 501(c)(3) arts and education non-profit committed to supporting, promoting, and producing innovative arts while fostering growth within our community through creative exchange.

Former use : air conditioning company
Total surface of the site : 7,500 square feet
Architect of the rehabilitation : field lines
Renovation costs of the building : $25,000
Location : city
Foundation year of the centre : 1993, 2002 at current site.
Type of occupation : lease
Owner of the building : Lenny Gardner

Infrastructures / Facilities

Performanc/gallery space: 2000 square feet with some music and theater equipment. Several artist studios from 100 to 350 square feet. Small media lab. Office with several computers. Library with 4000 volumes of mixed interest. Dark room with full black and white facilities

Social and artistic disciplines

Flux factory sponsors performances in music and theater as well as non-traditional performance art. Flux factory puts up shows in its independent gallery several times a year around different themes. We also sponsor events for the local community and have an international residency program.

Other structures/organisations resident on the site

A digital printing press downstairs and a cable installation company.

Headlands Center for the Arts - Sausalito - California

2002-02-11T06:29:25Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure: Headlands Center for the Arts
Type of structure: U.S. private not for profit corporation
Profile of the initiators of the project: artists collective (Headlands Center for the Arts was conceived through a planning process conducted by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to transfer former military property to the National Park Service. HCA was incorporated in 1982 by a founding Board of Directors comprised primarily of local artists).
Continent : North America
Country : United States of America
Address/tel/fax : 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito,
CA 94965
tel : + 1 415 331-2787,
fax : + 1 415 331-3857
Mail : staff@headlands.org
Website : www.headlands.org
Contact : Kathryn Reasoner, Executive Director

Description

Headlands Center for the Arts (HCA) is a laboratory for creativity where artists are given time and space to experiment, collaborate and develop new work in a breathtaking natural setting. HCA offers extended, live-in residencies to as many as 30 artists from throughout the U.S. and the world each year and rented studio space for Bay Area artists, providing opportunities for thought and interaction among a diverse community of artists and thinkers working in an array of disciplines. Through residencies and public programs, HCA seeks to explore and interpret the relationship between place and the creative process, and to extend appreciation for the role of artists in society.
Headlands Center for the Arts is a lively community of working artists and creative thinkers, actively engaged in learning and exchange across cultures and professional disciplines. Through our Artist-in-Residence program, Affiliate Artist studio rental program, and interdisciplinary public programs, HCA encourages dialogues between artists and professionals outside the arts — architects and educators, environmentalists and new media visionaries, urban planners and community activists.

Former use : former military buildings
Total surface of the site : 10 buildings over a 1/4 mile area, 72,000 square feet
Location : set within a 15,000 sq. acre national park along the Pacific Coast, 15 minutes north of San Francisco in Marin County.
Foundation year of the centre : Organization 1982
Type of occupation: 20- year renewable lease
Owner of the building: Federal government (Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA)

Infrastructures / Facilities

Multi-use space
Restaurant
Art gallery/exhibition places
Artist residencies spaces
Library/documentation centre
Conference hall
Gymnasium
Exterior spaces
Photo laboratory
Housing facilities

Social and artistic disciplines

Artists-In-Residence come to Headlands Center for the Arts to explore a wide range of disciplines, including:
CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
MUSIC
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
VISUAL ART
MULTIMEDIA
CINEMA/VIDEO/AUDIOVISUAL
LITERATURE/POETRY

Other structures/organisations or companies settled on the site:

Within the park where we are situated, there are several other not-for-profit agencies that occupy buildings similar to ours, and hold their own leases with the GGNRA. There are no other organizations or companies settled within the buildings under our lease.

Financial support:

government agencies, foundations, corporate sponsors, membership, individual donations, earned income from public programming

Networks:

Member of the Alliance of Artists' Communities
Res Artis.

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center - Buffalo - New York

2002-02-09T08:35:21Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure : Hallwalls, Inc
Type of structure : 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation (incorporated 1977), and a registered charity in New York State
Profile of the initiators of the project : two undergraduate art students at Buffalo State College, Charles Clough and Robert Longo
Continent : North America
Country : United states of America, NY
Address/tel/fax : Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
The Tri-Main CenterÂ·
2495 Main Street Suite 425
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: + 1 716-835-7362Â·
Fax: + 1 7I6-835-7364
Mail : office@hallwalls.org
Website : www.hallwalls.org
Contact : Edmund Cardoni Â·Executive Director

Description

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center in Buffalo, NY which for over 25 years has presented contemporary art to audiences in the Western New York region. Hallwalls' mission is to support the creation and presentation of new work in the visual, media, performing, and literary arts. Hallwalls is dedicated in particular to work by artists which challenges and extends the boundaries of the various art forms, and which is critically engaged with current issues in the arts and, through the arts, in society. In the past 20 years, Hallwalls has presented the work of over 7,000 artists from around the world.
In 1974, two undergraduate art students at Buffalo State College, Charles Clough and Robert Longo, hung their work and the work of their colleagues on the walls of the hall between their studio spaces in an old ice house on the West Side and opened it to the public. In the first few years Hallwalls presented the work of artists such as Vito Acconci, Cindy Sherman, and Michael Snow; all of whom would go on to make a dramatic impact on the history of contemporary art.

Former use : windshield wiper factory
Surface of the site : 11,000 square foot
Foundation year : 1974

Infrastructures :

3 galleries,
a cinema,
performance theater,
video library,
media editing suite,
book store

Artistic and social disciplines

contemporary theatre : performances

music :

visual art : -exhibitions –performances

cinema/audiovisual : screenings

literature/poetry :

Financial support

Major support for the 2001–2002 season has been provided by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency & NYFA - New York Foundation for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, County of Erie Cultural Funding, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal agency, the Members of Hallwalls, City of Buffalo Cultural Funding, Chase Manhattan Bank, the County Initiative Program (CIP) of the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, The National Arts Administration Mentorship, and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, and generous donations from individuals and local businesses.