What we offer

• Access to WORTHLESSSTUDIOS

• $3,000 material stipend

• $1,500 artist stipend

• Personal semi-private studio space within WORTHLESSSTUDIOS (~500 sqft)

• Culminating exhibition

• Artsy page

• Facilitation of Open Studio days

• Production of Artist Panels

• Access to Materials For the Arts

• Access to technical assistance

• Access to WORTHLESSSTUDIOS’ fabrication facility

What artists contribute

• Time and creativity in pursuing your personal career as an artist by working to realize a new art object for your portfolio

• Attendance and participation in Artist Panels, Open Studios and culminating exhibition.

• 2 days of front desk coverage during exhibition (December 1-18)

Artist resOurCES

Public Programming

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salome asega

Salome Asega is an artist and researcher whose practice celebrates dissensus and multivocality. She is currently a Technology Fellow in the Ford Foundation's Creativity and Free Expression program area. Salome is also the co-host of speculative talk show Hyperorpia: 20/30 Vision on bel-air radio, and a director of POWRPLNT, a digital art collaboratory in Bushwick. Salome has participated in residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and Recess Art. She has exhibited and given presentations at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, Performa, EYEO, and the Brooklyn Museum. Salome received her MFA from Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology where she also teaches.

eric fischl

Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in over one thousand publications. His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Fischl's paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modem Art in New York City, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, Musée Beaubourg in Paris, The Paine Weber Collection, and many others. Fischl has collaborated with other artists and authors, including E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Jamaica Kincaid, Jerry Saltz and Frederic Tuten.

tanda francis

Tanda Francis is a Brooklyn based  artist with a primary focus of creating public art including monumental African heads. Her work addresses diasporic African people who are too often underrepresented in public art. She sees the rituals and customs rooted in a spiritual and ancestral past as a significant means of understanding and addressing the contemporary and future condition facing humanity. She uses her work to activate a dialog of universal origin to cross cultural barriers.

Francis explores digital and traditional forms of art while working and exhibiting her art in solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally. She has created several  site-specific monumental public art pieces including BIGGIE (2014), New York City; Everyone Breaks, Riverside Park, New York City (2015-2016); And We Breath (collaborative), Van Cortlandt Park, New York City (2015-2016); Take Me With You, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City, (2017-2018), Adorn Me, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn (2017-2018) among others.

NEIL HAMAMOTO

Neil Hamamoto is a conceptual artist making work in sculpture, painting, photography and installation. He is also the Founder and Artistic Director for Brooklyn based art not-for-profit, WORTHLESSSTUDIOS.

PATTON HINDLE

Patton Hindle is the Head of Arts at Kickstarter, where she oversees the visual and performing arts categories, working closely with artists, collectives, arts organizations, museums, and cultural institutions around the world to help them realize creative and ambitious ideas. Hindle was previously the co-founder of Chinatown gallery yours mine & ours and the Director of Gallery and Institutional Partnerships at Artspace. She is a co-author of the second edition of How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery and was a 2019 Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow at 92Y Women inPower in New York. Additionally, Hindle regularly advises for-profit and nonprofit arts organizations on strategic business development. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Laundromat Project, the Board of Advisors of the Arts Funders Forum, and Americans for the Arts’ Inclusive Creative Economy Advisory Group. Hindle was raised in London and attended university in Boston.

BROOKE KAMIN RAPAPORT

Brooke Kamin Rapaport is Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York where she is responsible for the public sculpture program of commissioned work by contemporary artists.. She was Commissioner and Curator of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty / Libertà (2019). She is founder of Public Art Consortium, a national initiative of museum, public art, and sculpture park curators (2017 launch). She was a curator in the contemporary art department at The Brooklyn Museum and a guest curator at The Jewish Museum in New York.

Rapaport sits on the boards of three artist-endowed foundations: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Al Held Foundation, and von Rydingsvard and Greengard Foundation. She is a former member of the board of Socrates Sculpture Park and former Chair of the Advisory Board, Mead Art Museum. She continues to sit on the Mead Board. Rapaport received an honorary Doctor of Arts from Amherst College (2022).

jasmine wahi

Jasmine Wahi is the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization rooted in Newark, NJ, and soon to be in New York City. Her multi-faceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism.

While co-directing PES, Ms. Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2020. While at the museum she curated several renowned exhibitions, including Born In Flames: Feminist Futures and Wardell Milan: AMERIKA. God Bless You If It's Good To You, which were oriented around the thesis that visibility is the primary tenet of Social Justice. In addition to her work at more formal institutions, Ms. Wahi also curates exhibitions and lectures internationally on dismantling White Supremacist, Capitalist, Patriarchal structures in the cultural realm and beyond.

kennedy yanko

Kennedy Yanko (b. 1988, St. Louis, MO) is a sculptor and installation artist working in found metal and paint skin. Yanko deploys her materials in ways that explore the limitations of optic vision, underlining the opportunities we miss when looking with eyes alone. Her methods reflect a dual abstract expressionist-surrealist approach that centers the seen and unseen factors that affect, contribute to, and moderate human experience.

Since 2019, Yanko has debuted six solo exhibitions across the US and abroad and has revealed four major installations: her first public sculpture, 3 WAYS, in collaboration with The Helis Foundation and the Ogden Museum of Art (New Orleans, LA); White, Passing at the Rubell Museum (Miami, FL), By means other than the known senses at the Unlimited Section of Art Basel (Basel, Switzerland), Landscape 1 at the Parrish Museum, curated by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont (Water Mill, NY) and No more Drama at the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY).