micro-residencies

The Clemente's micro-residency program embraces process, playfulness, trial and error. Envisioned as a space for learning, sharing knowledge, and strengthening community, it can assist in growing and strengthening creative art practice with flexible time commitments and opportunities to complete a specific project, commission, or prototype within a limited amount of time between one week to three months.

The Micro-residency component that is housed in studio 406 is playfully referred to as La Pizarra—the chalkboard—is the guiding image for this space of experimentation and creation : it invites artists to try new things, erase, try again. Responding to the needs we have identified in conversation with our artist network, and layering on the established resources of our historical building as well as our seasonal signature programs and festivals, we aim to create—and hold—a space for artists to gather and feel a sense of belonging and solidity that allows them to take risks they wouldn’t be able to elsewhere.

Previous organizational partners for this program have been EmergeNYC, Vera List Center, and LMCC.