COPE NYC offers local, national, and international organizations opportunities to foster the intersection of ideas for creativity among diverse communities. The artists in residence exchange program supports this mission by fostering new relationships through creative endeavors and a cross cultural exchange of ideas among innovators.

COPE NYC is pleased to announce our 2024 Artists in Residence program located in Brooklyn. COPE NYC provides a unique opportunity that offers a cross pollination of experiential practices, community relations, and academics. This year the program is open to Pratt Institute students who use the residency as part of their coursework. Students source free materials from our inventory, and partners including, Materials for the Arts to create a site-specific installation for the community. Since its inception in 2016, thousands of visitors have engaged with the student artists in residence work.

The artist-in-residence will exhibit their finished work in mid April. We offer an opportunity to lead workshops connected to the artist in residence projects with local schools.

Artists Bios:

Residency Dates: January 29 – April 15, 2024

Location: COPE NYC 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Free Materials: COPE NYC will support the artist in residence by providing access to its storage conveniently located in the building. In addition, COPE NYC is in partnership with Materials with the Arts, which is the largest creative reuse center in the United States, opening its doors to the artist in residence to make art from reusable materials.

Tools: The artists-in-residence must bring their own tools. All tools to be used must be listed so that the building and COPE NYC can be made aware in advance. Sign in sheet will be available.

Space: The residency provides a free space, open to studio visits during specific times, (with exception of scheduled workshops in place).

Proposal Guidelines: Once materials are picked up, artist should submit a project proposal of what you will create. Artists will have opportunities to share their work with professionals including, gallerists, collegiate institutions with strong art departments, and art associations and the community. To share the dynamics of this project with the community a google drive for all participating parties who are involved is created to upload images and or video clips. It is important all contributing artists submit documentation to show the vitality of this project.

Special thanks to Acumen Capital Partners

COPE NYC Announces Its First Designer In Residence for 2023

COPE NYC is pleased to announce our 2023 Artists in Residence program located in Brooklyn. COPE NYC provides a unique opportunity that offers a cross pollination of experiential practices, community relations, and academics. This year the program is open to Pratt Institute students who use the residency as part of their coursework. Students source free materials from our inventory, and partners including, Materials for the Arts to create a site-specific installation for the community. Since its inception in 2016, thousands of visitors have engaged with the student artists in residence work.

Project Blue: Pratt Institute students will be contributing to our current project, “Blue,” by creating art and design work that incorporates 40 percent blue. Blue is a universal presence that has an emotional impact and historical connotation in all of our lives. This is an opportunity for civic engagement, social advocacy, art, and sustainability within the ecosystem of 630 Flushing Avenue, a building that has one of the most diverse tenants including: Artists, Designers, Media, Music, Entrepreneurs, Hi-Tech, Fashion, Film, Office, Distributors, Retail, Non-Profits, and Food and Wine Companies.

The artist-in-residence will exhibit their finished work in late April. COPE NYC is not responsible for loss or damage of work. We offer an opportunity to lead workshops connected to the artist in residence projects with local schools.

Artists Bios:

Residency Dates: February 21 – May 7, 2023

Location: COPE NYC  630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Free Materials: COPE NYC will support the artist in residence by providing access to its storage conveniently located in the building. In addition, COPE NYC is in partnership with Materials with the Arts, which is the largest creative reuse center in the United States, opening its doors to the artist in residence to make art from reusable materials.

Tools: The artists-in-residence must bring their own tools. All tools to be used must be listed so that the building and COPE NYC can be made aware in advance. Sign in sheet will be available.

Space: The residency provides a free space, open to studio visits during specific times, 24/7 access (with exception of scheduled workshops in place).

Proposal Guidelines: Once materials are picked up, artist should submit a project proposal of what you will create. Artists wil have opportunities to share their work with professionals including, gallerists, collegiate institutions with strong art departments, and art associations and the community. To share the dynamics of this project with the community a google drive for all participating parties who are involved is created to upload images and or video clips. It is important all contributing artists submit documentation to show the vitality of this project.

Special thanks to Acumen Capital Partners

COPE NYC Announces 2022 Artist in Residence Exchange: Michela Martello

Siao-Long Cultural Park 2022 - We are excited to announce artist, Michela Martello, has been invited for our 2022 COPE NYC Taiwanese residency exchange in Siao-Long Cultural Park. It is the fourth year in our continuing effort to provide resources and opportunities for international artists in Taiwan. This year’s curatorial theme created by Director of COPE NYC, Vida Sabbaghi, will be the importance of water in Taiwan’s way of life, cultural traditions, and sustainable practices and beliefs.

Taiwan receives about 100 inches of rain each year and has a long history of depending on typhoons to sustain its economy, cultural identity, and belief systems. It has witnessed fewer typhoons recently, which spares the country from enduring serious destruction in its aftermath, however without the heavy rainfall, Taiwan faces serious drought problems affecting agriculture, industrial production, and everyday activities.

Water has always played a central role in Taiwanese culture.

COPE NYC’s 2022 Artist in Residence, Michela Martello, is creating paintings on a hanging installation, featuring revered sea deities such as Matsu, who according to legend, saved her fishermen family from an ocean storm by slipping into a trance and plucking them to safety.

Included will be the intersection of paintings with Kwan Yin, Green Tara, and the Virgin Mary - exploring an iconography for the sake of pure spiritual energy, inspiring us on a deeper level to feel our own truths with a focus on their spiritual connection to water.

Michela will create a low-level swimming pool, with water purified through a ritual. Visitors will be able to walk through a chamber with sacred images and the pool of water.

COPE NYC Announces 2021 Fall Artist in Residence: Clare Stokolosa

New York, NY November 9, 2021 - Today COPE NYC announced Clare Stokolosa will be their Fall 2021 Artist in Residence at its 630 Flushing, Brooklyn, New York location. Clare has worked collaboratively with cultural institutions of New York including the Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Queens Museum. She was chosen by COPE NYC for commitment to develop her practice and to further her career, particularly her romantic surrealism approach to the watercolor painting of her series, New York City Faces.

The New York City Faces series was displayed on 1,700 ArtOnLink kiosks throughout the five boroughs. The large-scale paintings are an expansion of her sketches of people riding the subway. When expanded to larger dimensions her drawings become forceful and lively. The artist says the series began as an anthropological documentation of the unique diversity of people using New York City's mass transit - one of the largest public transportation systems in the world. COPE NYC will install a selection of the series in the building and support her new works.

Currently, Clare spends time painting in both Cortona, Italy and in her studio in Long Island City, Queens. In 2019 former Borough President Melinda Katz presented her with the art award from the Italian Heritage Cultural Committee of Queens at St. John’s University.New York City Faces is Clare’s version of The Peaceable Kingdom series created by Quaker painter, Edward Hicks, in the 1830s. She draws from observation, enlarges the images, and completes the paintings in her studio in Long Island City, New York. 

COPE NYC Announces 2021 Summer Artist in Residence: Michela Martello

NEW YORK, NY July 7, 2021 - today COPE NYC announced Michela Martello's proposal, THE THIRD EYE RESIDENCY PROJECT, has been selected for our summer residency program. Michela proposes a collaborative framework, which involves guest artists and people of varying ages and artistic abilities, to tap into their unexplored potential, and experience joyful sensory experiences as they work with the artist.

Michela Martello’s "The Third Eye Residency Project" is based on her research that drawing with our usually unused hand, and drawing blindfolded, can stimulate spheres of our senses that often remain asleep. These reactivated spheres ignite a series of electrical micro magnetisms in our body that act on endorphins, on the thalamus, and on the third eye, making us joyful and more present in the moment.

How to integrate creative confusion into constructive narrative? From this sentence, Michela draws inspiration. Now she invites people of different ages to participate in a collective artistic work.

The Residency will be carried out on weekdays and select weekends with an interim on July 16 – 21.

Mask wearing is always required. Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test (taken within 14 days) for participants.

COPE NYC is pleased to announce our Artists in Residence located in Brooklyn; it provides a unique opportunity that offers a cross pollination of experiential practices, community relations, and academics. This year the program is open to Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts students who use the residency as part of their coursework. Students source free materials from our inventory, and partners including, Materials for the Arts to create a site-specific installation for the community. Since its inception in 2016, thousands of visitors have engaged with the student artists' collective work.

Artists Bios:

Due to the pandemic we are asking students to wear masks, to practice social distancing when possible, and to create an installation that is safe and immersive to reflect the current times.

Post-secondary schools who have participated include Columbia University, Adelphi, Suny New Paltz, Brooklyn College, Pratt Institute, and School of Visual Arts.

Location: 630 Flushing, situated at the crossroads of Williamsburg, home to Bedford Stuyvesant historic brownstones, is host to over 150 businesses which include: Artists, Designers, Media, Music, Entrepreneurs, Hi-Tech, Fashion, Film, Office, Distributors, Retail, Non-Profits, and Food and Wine Companies.

Materials: We will provide materials as well as arrange zoom shopping with Materials for the Arts for curbside pickup.

Orientation: September 23rd - to meet the needs of students we are offering onsite and zoom orientation.

 COPE NYC is pleased to announce the fourth year of its Artist in Residence Program at our 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY location. Art, social advocacy, and sustainability, with the involvement of post-secondary schools and the community, align with the COPE NYC mission to bridge communities through an intersection of creative ideas.

The Residency Project: This is an opportunity for social advocacy, art, and sustainability within the Brooklyn community. We encourage collaboration with a business in the Acumen building or neighborhood. The artist-in-residence is required to exhibit his/her finished work in mid-November at the Acumen Capital Partner LLC Building. Artists-in-residence are responsible for their materials. COPE NYC is not responsible for loss or damage of work.

Location: Acumen Partner LLC, situated at the crossroads of Williamsburg, home to Bedford Stuyvesant historic brownstones, is host to over 150 businesses which include: Artists, Designers, Media, Music, Entrepreneurs, Hi-Tech, Fashion, Film, Office, Distributors, Retail, Non-Profits, and Food and Wine Companies.

Free Materials: COPE NYC is in partnership with Materials with the Arts, which is opening its doors to the artists in residence to make art from reusable materials. No purchase of materials is necessary. For artists who are not using materials from Materials for The Arts, and plan to bring their own materials, please put that in the proposal and what medium you will be using. All work is about creative reuse.

Tools: The artists-in-residence must bring their own tools. All tools to be used must be listed so that the building and COPE NYC can be made aware in advance. Sign in sheet will be available.

Space: The residency provides a free space, open to studio visits during specific times, 24/7 access.

Proposal Guidelines: Once materials are picked up, submit a Group Project Proposal, Maximum 300 words and sketch of what you will create. The artist-in-residence must be dedicated to civic engagement. There will be opportunities to share their work with the museum professionals, gallerists, collegiate institutions with strong art departments, and art associations and the community. To share the dynamics of this project with the community a drop box for all participating parties that are involved will be created to post images and or video clips. It is important all contributing artists submit documentation to show the vitality of this project.

Orientation: September 18

Submit the following information to COPE NYC Director Vida Sabbaghi at vida@copenyc.org

Participating College:

Professor’s name, telephone number, email address, address:

Participating Artist’s telephone number, email address, address:

Experience an Oasis where Crossroads of History, Folk Art, and Contemporary Visual and Performance Arts Intersect

COPE NYC is pleased to announce its 2019 International Artists-in-Residence Program at the renowned Siao-Long Artist Village. For this artists in residence we are partnering with Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government, Taiwan.

Photography courtesy of Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Government and COPE NYC

The Project: Artist will create a site specific installation, inspired by the local surroundings and cultural heritage, which will become an exciting contemporary art learning experience for adults and children alike. Since its inception in 2013, Siao-Long Artist Village has welcomed families to its recreational space. This is why the 2019 COPE NYC Open Call invites artists of all disciplines to think of proposals in which site specific installations merge with modernity, folk tradition, and inspiration for children.

Artists will be given a month long time frame to create and install their site specific work.

Residency Dates: 08/01/2019 to 08/31/19

Location: Siao-Long Park,  the grounds are home to the former Japanese sugar factory, with railroad tracks, and cargo trains. 

The village is a thriving community of artists. This is a great opportunity to engage with local artists and visit the ongoing cultural events - from live performances to an array of exhibits, from the Children’s Museum to the Tainan Cultural Folk Art Museum - inspiration abounds.

In the heart of the fertile Jianan Plains, between historic Siraya National Scenic Area and ecologically rich Taijiang National Park, Siao-Long Cultural Park arose from the former Jiali Sugar Factory.

Siao-Long, surrounded by farms and quaint villages, is a half an hour bike ride to downtown Tainan with its night market, museum and Buddhist temples and minutes to hi-tech Tainan Science Park. It’s a short bike to cafes and restaurants.

Park History: The Siao-Long Sugar Factory, established in 1906, was the Meiji Sugar Corporation’s first modern sugar refinery. After the war, the Taiwan Provincial Office took control of all Japanese sugar corporations. In the 1970s the sugar plant witnessed a time of prosperity and was renamed the Jiali Sugar Factory. Sugar is still a valuable commodity. SAV utilizes fourteen historic sugar warehouses to create an arts and culture facility which is a home to permanent and special exhibitions.

Materials: Artists can bring their own materials in addition to materials provided by Siao-Long Artist Village.

Hospitality: There is an independent house with living room, kitchen, laundry facilities and yard. Artists will be accommodated with their own bedroom with private restroom, and free wifi. Bicycles will be provided during the time of the residency for artists to ride through the scenic Siao-Long Cultural Park to get to the convenient City Center Supermarket -- a fifteen minute ride. Alternatively, a bus ride to City Center is 30 to 40 minutes. The artist is responsible for living expenses which are very low.

Artist Responsible for:

Travel and subsistence costs
Meals
Health insurance

Residency will provide:

Residence
Art Studio (24 hour access to designated space to create work)
Free Wifi                                                                                                                                Budget for art supplies if needed
Bicycle upon request                                                                                                                Artist in residence will be featured in catalog

APPLICATION FORM CLICK HERE

Deadline: June 30th 2019

2019, COPE NYC is launching its first artists in residence in Germany. This unique artists in residence provides lodging and studio space for artists, in a picturesque cottage, to create site specific work for an exhibit in a Berlin Gallery during the famous 26-28 Gallery Weekend April 2019 Berlin. This project emeriged through partnership with “Kunstleben Berlin” founder of New York Meets Berlin Project.

The Residency Project:

Berlin - an international city known for its unique architecture, museums and creative community, with gallery owners, art lovers, and art enthusiasts.

This is an innovative artists’ exchange between COPE NYC, Berlin, and Soulangh Cultural Village, Taiwan. The selected Taiwanese artist will create work for the Gallery Kunstwerkberlin during the annual festive Gallery Weekend Berlin. Berlin, a hub for creative minds and free spirits, has a thriving art scene.

Residency Dates: March 30 - April 30 2019

Artist responsible for:

$850.00 residence onetime fee (Limited Scholarships are available upon request) Travel and subsistence cost Meals Health Insurance

Residency will provide:

Residence Art Studio Kitchen Free Wifi Laundry Service Budget for Art supplies if needed Bicycle Curators and gallerists visits Complimentary pick up and drop off from airport

APPLICATION FORM CLICK HERE:

Deadline March 1, 2019

The Project: Artist will create a site specific installation, inspired by the local surroundings and cultural heritage, which will become an exciting contemporary art learning experience for adults and children alike. Since its inception in 2013, Siao-Long Artist Village has welcomed families to its recreational space. This is why the 2018 COPE NYC Open Call invites artists of all disciplines to think of proposals in which site specific installations merge with modernity, folk tradition, and inspiration for children.

Artists will be given a month long time frame to create and install their site specific work.

Residency Dates: 05/01/2018 to 05/31/18

Location: Siao-Long Park,  the grounds are home to the former Japanese sugar factory, with railroad tracks, and cargo trains. 

The village is a thriving community of artists. This is a great opportunity to engage with local artists and visit the ongoing cultural events - from live performances to an array of exhibits, from the Children’s Museum to the Tainan Cultural Folk Art Museum - inspiration abounds.

In the heart of the fertile Jianan Plains, between historic Siraya National Scenic Area and ecologically rich Taijiang National Park, Siao-Long Cultural Park arose from the former Jiali Sugar Factory.

Siao-Long, surrounded by farms and quaint villages, is a half an hour bike ride to downtown Tainan with its night market, museum and Buddhist temples and minutes to hi-tech Tainan Science Park. It’s a short bike to cafes and restaurants.

Park History: The Siao-Long Sugar Factory, established in 1906, was the Meiji Sugar Corporation’s first modern sugar refinery. After the war, the Taiwan Provincial Office took control of all Japanese sugar corporations. In the 1970s the sugar plant witnessed a time of prosperity and was renamed the Jiali Sugar Factory. Sugar is still a valuable commodity. SAV utilizes fourteen historic sugar warehouses to create an arts and culture facility which is a home to permanent and special exhibitions.

Materials: Artists can bring their own materials in addition to materials provided by Siao-Long Artist Village.

Hospitality: There is an independent house with living room, kitchen, laundry facilities and yard. Artists will be accommodated with their own bedroom with private restroom, and free wifi. Bicycles will be provided during the time of the residency for artists to ride through the scenic Siao-Long Cultural Park to get to the convenient City Center Supermarket -- a fifteen minute ride. Alternatively, a bus ride to City Center is 30 to 40 minutes. The artist is responsible for living expenses which are very low.

Artist Responsible for:

$550 residency one time fee  (Limited scholarships are available upon request)
Travel and subsistence costs
Meals
Health insurance

Residency will provide:

Residence
Art Studio (24 hour access to designated space to create work)
Free Wifi                                                                                                                                Budget for art supplies if needed
Bicycle upon request                                                                                                                Artist in residence will be featured in catalog

APPLICATION FORM CLICK HERE

Deadline: February 18th 2018

COPE NYC is pleased to announce the third year of its Artist in Residence Program at the Acumen Capital Partners LLC Building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Art, social advocacy, and sustainability, with the involvement of post-secondary schools and the community, align with the COPE NYC mission to bridge communities through an intersection of creative ideas.

Photography courtesy of COPE NYC and Empathy Academy  

The Residency Project: This is an opportunity for civic engagement, social advocacy, art, and sustainability within local, national, and international communities. We encourage collaboration with a business in the Acumen building or neighborhood. The artist-in-residence is required to exhibit his/her finished work in mid-November at the Acumen Capital Partners LLC Building. Artists-in-residence are responsible for their materials. COPE NYC is not responsible for loss or damage of work.

Residency Dates: September 26 2018 through TBA

Location: Acumen Capital Partners LLC, situated at the crossroads of Williamsburg, home to Bedford Stuyvesant historic brownstones, is host to over 150 businesses which include: Artists, Designers, Media, Music, Entrepreneurs, Hi-Tech, Fashion, Film, Office, Distributors, Retail, Non-Profits, and Food and Wine Companies. Brooklyn subway is across the street from Acumen.

Free Materials: COPE NYC is in partnership with Materials with the Arts, which is opening its doors to the artists in residence to make art from reusable materials. No purchase of materials is necessary. For artists who are not using materials from Materials for The Arts, and plan to bring their own materials, please put that in the proposal and what medium you will be using. All work is about creative reuse.

Tools: The artists-in-residence must bring their own tools. All tools to be used must be listed so that the building and COPE NYC can be made aware in advance. Sign in sheet will be available.

Space: The residency provides a free space, open to studio visits during specific times, 24/7 access (with exception of scheduled workshops in place).

Proposal Guidelines: Once materials are picked up, submit a Group Project Proposal, Maximum 300 words and sketch of what you will create. The artist-in-residence must be dedicated to civic engagement. There will be opportunities to share their work with the museum professionals, gallerists, collegiate institutions with strong art departments, and art associations and the community. To share the dynamics of this project with the community a drop box for all participating parties that are involved will be created to post images and or video clips. It is important all contributing artists submit documentation to show the vitality of this project.

Application Deadline: September 15

Submit the following information to COPE NYC Director Vida Sabbaghi vida@copenyc.org

Participating College:

Professor’s name, telephone number, email address, address:

Participating Artist’s telephone number, email address, address:

New: Partnership with Empathy Academy. In addition to artists in residence submitting their group proposal they also have the opportunity to work together on Mare Nostrum (Our Sea). COPE NYC is excited to announce a new partnership with Empathy Academy whose project, Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) 2016, will be developed as part of the COPE NYC residency in partnership with Empathy Academy and continuing partners, Materials for the Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn College, Adelphi University and others who will work together to build a 30-foot sculpture of a boat that was 3D scanned in Venice, Italy when Stephanie Owens led a workshop on global migration as part of W.A.V.e. International Festival hosted at University IUAV of Venice. The boat form will be made of up-cycled and found materials but fabricated using digitally controlled, CNC machines.

Stephanie Owens is an artist, writer, and curator who is Founding Director of Empathy Academy: Platform for the Future of Art, Design + Matter. Stephanie brings an impressive track record to the residency that COPE NYC looks for in collaborators. She is a professor of digital media and recently Director of Cornell Council for the Arts at Cornell University where she created the university's first campus-wide biennial to bring contemporary art together with research science to develop large scale public art projects.

The Mare Nostrum Project:

Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) is a project that realizes for the first time a 1:1 scale sculpture made from the 3D scanned model of a cargo boat similar to those that carried refugees to the shores of Italy. Owens produced the realistic 3D model of the boat with students and local craftsmen using a photogrammetry process technique that captures the wear and scars of the boat from its use over time. Her workshop, "Object Empathies," asked students to imagine that they were forced to travel to an unfamiliar new land and could only take one object with them. Each brought to the studio one object that was also 3D captured and made into a 1:1 model. Cornell students were part of a similar project and eventually both the Venetian objects and the Ithaca objects were digitally "fused" to the boat model. The aggregate model (boat + objects) is meant to be a sculptural form that changes its shape at each new location to which it "travels"---where the model is downloaded as fabricated as a new iteration of the sculpture each time.  

Link for more information:

https://www.stephanieowens.net/projects/mare-nostrum-our-sea/

Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

COPE NYC is pleased to announce its second Artist-in-Residence Program at the Acumen Capital Partners LLC Building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

 The Project: In the Spirit of CREATIVE REUSE, artists will be turning reusable materials into artworks.

 Residency Dates: September 27 through November 3 2017

 Location: Acumen Capital Partners LLC is situated at the crossroads of Williamsburg - the epicenter of Brooklyn, home to Bedford Stuyvesant historic brownstones, and a hub for talent including the popular new music performance venue, National Sawdust. Acumen is host to over 150 businesses which include: Artists, Designers, Media, Music, Entrepreneurs, Hi-Tech, Fashion, Film, Education, Office, Distributors, Retail, Non-Profits, and Food Companies. 

Free Materials: COPE NYC is in partnership with Materials for the Arts, which is opening its doors to the artists in residence to make art from reusable materials. All work is about creative reuse; no purchase of materials is necessary.

Application Deadline: September 15th. Submit the following information to COPE NYC Director Vida Sabbaghi    vida@copenyc.org

·       Participating College

·       Professor’s name, telephone number, email address, address

·       Participating Artists telephone number, email address, address

 Guidelines: Once materials are picked up, submit a Group Project Proposal, Maximum 300 words and sketch of what you will create. The artist-in-residence must be dedicated to civic engagement. There will be opportunities to share their work with the museum professionals, gallerists, collegiate institutions with strong art departments, art associations, and the community. To share the dynamics of this project with the community a drop box for all participating parties that are involved will be created to post images and or video clips. It is important all contributing artists submit documentation to show the vitality of this project.

 *For artists who are not using materials from Materials for The Arts and plan to bring their own materials, please put that in the proposal along with the medium you will be using. The residency provides a free space, open to studio visits during specific times, 24/7 access, materials obtained from Materials for the Arts. The artist-in-residence must bring their own tools. All tools to be used must be listed so that the building and COPE NYC can be made aware in advance. Sign in sheet will be available. The artist-in-residence are required to exhibit their finished work in mid-November at the Acumen Capital Partners LLC Building. Artists-in-residence are responsible for their materials. 

Photography courtesy of Susan Luss

A trendy Brooklyn neighborhood full of innovation.  

Photography courtesy of Susan Luss and Xingyi Li

Queens Museum renowned for its openness to diversity.

Photography courtesy of Jenny Gorman