BRIClab Program for Mid-Career Artists in New York

BRIClab offers emerging to mid-career artists essential support and opportunities to share their work.

Donor Name: BRIClab

State: New York

City: New York City

Type of Grant: Program

Deadline: 03/14/2024

Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000

Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned

Details:

BRIClab is a multi-disciplinary residency program created to advance opportunities for visual artists and media makers.

All residents receive a $2,500 stipend, mentorship, skills-based learning and professional development, and documentation of their work. Additional support, in the form of funding, space, access to equipment and media classes, and other resources vary according to tracks. BRIClab artists will also have the opportunity to share their work through public programming that will take place in Spring and Summer 2025.

The program’s three tracks are Contemporary Art, Film + TV, and Video Art. Each track offers unique resources and opportunities designed to meet the needs of varied artistic practices.

The BRIClab: Contemporary Art is an interdisciplinary, community-oriented residency program that provides emerging and early-career artists with studio space and professional support to develop and advance their practice.
The BRIClab: Video Art is a year-long residency through BRIC’s Media Education and Contemporary Art Departments to support the creation of a video or film short or a longer work-in-progress.
The BRIClab: Film + TV residency track incubates innovative and ambitious documentary filmmakers working on short form, episodic, or feature length non-fiction films.

Eligibility Criteria

BRIClab Contemporary Art Residency
- Emerging and early-career artists, artist collectives, and collaboratives based in New York City, 18 years or older, who are enthusiastic about:
  - Developing work that expands their practice in a new and compelling way
  - Building community within the cohort by actively participating in regular (at least once monthly) cohort gatherings and workshops tailored to the cohort’s interests and needs.
  - Hosting regular (at least once monthly) studio visits with BRIC curatorial staff, leading curators, scholars, and practitioners, and artists in neighboring residency programs.
  - Cultivating a relationship with a peer advisor who will offer support and feedback on the resident’s works-in-progress and larger practice.
  - Sharing work with the public during the two-day Open Studios event in Spring 2025.
  - Preparing finalized work for documentation at the end of the residency.
  - Joining the network of BRIClab artists and alumni working across Contemporary Art, Video Art, Film & TV, and Performing Arts.
BRIClab Video Art Residency
- You must:
  - A New York City based creative, 18 years of age or older.
  - Willing to become a certified community producer, and enroll in at least three classes.
  - Willing to present work and participate in the final screening event in Fall 2025.
  - Not currently enrolled in an educational institution.
  - Not a previous BRIClab: Video Art resident or BRIC Media Arts Fellow.
  - Not proposing a marketing, commercial, or purely journalistic project.
- BRIClab is interested in:
  - Artists with a strong desire to explore and grow in using video & audio as distinct mediums, or part of an interdisciplinary approach.
  - Artists that have a solid plan of work.
  - Artists that want to participate in the Community Media center and contribute work to the Free Speech Channel past the residency.
  - The relevancy of your work to a diverse Brooklyn audience.
  - Residency goals that align with the facilities and technical resources.
  - Work that reflects thoughtful, creative, and/or innovative processes.
BRIClab Film + TV Residency
- You must be:
  - An emerging to mid-career documentary filmmaker based in New York City, 18 years of age or older, with completed work samples to share. By emerging to mid-career, BRIC means an artist at the early stages of their career with at least one professional film/project completed, not including student films.
  - Willing to present work and participate in the final screening event, in Spring 2024.
  - An individual artist and/or a creative team of two.
  - Either not employed by BRIC full-time, or a non-salaried BRIC staffer who works fewer than 500 hours/year.
- BRIClab is interested in:
  - Documentary projects of all lengths (short/feature/series).
  - Thoroughly-researched, original concepts.
  - A detailed breakdown of budget and the various ways that the project will maximize the use of BRIC facilities and resources, including edit rooms and editing computers, screening room, desk space, and meeting space.
  - A specific production timeline leading up to a public screening in Spring 2024. This can be the final project or a works in progress cut.
  - Films can be in any language; if not in English, work must be subtitled.