NEST 2 Week Artist Residency

The problem we are solving is the lack of creative art space. Our project, NEST 2 week artist residency provides a 2 week stay at our newly built cob visual arts studio in Forestville Ca at the NEST, with an artist stipend of 1000 to pay for supplies for 5 Native artists in various mediums to create new work or expand an existing project. Our solution will provide 5 artists with the opportunity to advance their careers by completing new work. Artists will also have a chance to premier their work in our Native Youth focused arts magazine SNAG Magazine. We are a part of a network of resilient hubs in the Bay Area, with other groups doing similar work, if scaled and through our networks, we could solve the issue of lack of creative art space, and shift to a new paradigm of abundance and our artist community thriving.

The scale of our problem is global, but on a local level in the Bay Area where our organization laid its roots since 2003, we have watched as our local governments green lighted the tech companies to move in, banking on the promise of jobs, and chose not to tax those companies. We watched over the last decade as working families, and the arts community was pushed out by increased housing costs and the city lost many of its long term beloved organizations and creative art spaces and venues. Today San Francisco is the most expensive place in US per square foot, and nearly a third of Californian’s live at or near the poverty line, in addition there is over 35,000 homeless people thought the Bay Area. With the advent of the covid era, art spaces and organizations have been impacted even more with closure, and event cancellations. Our solution provides 5 Native artist with the opportunity to bolster their careers in a healthy environment, and nurture themselves and new work or expand current projects. We plan to build two more buildings with music and dance studios, healing arts space, our offices and more short and long term artist housing.

We will offer 5 Native Artist a 1000 stipend for supplies, and provide a free 2 week stay in our newly built visual arts studio at the NEST Community Arts Center. The stipend may be used to support artist supplies, and for other needs during their stay. We will select 5 Native artists in the following mediums; visual arts, dance, music, photography, film, and innovation/new media. In addition artists will be offered the opportunity to premier their work in SNAG Magazine, and have an immediate audience of 10k of our subscribers and followers. We will provide a clean and healthy environment with electricity, hot water, community kitchen, with heating and wifi. The artist participants will be required to bring their own technology needed for their stay or to create their work.

Our solution is Indigenous lead and based in my Pomo homelands in Sonoma County, CA. Our project will focus on artists based in the Bay Area, with an emphasis on CA Native artists, and also will serve tribal members from throughout the America’s. The artists we select will mid-career professional working artists. Our solution cuts to the heart of the artist we serves needs, by helping them financially with a stipend of 1k we will give artists an opportunity to expand in their careers and create new work or grow an existing project. Further exposure in SNAG Magazine will also provide them with an outlet an audience of 10k leading to many more opportunities.

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Having a space of that we own, creates numerous opportunities for growth. We created the space specifically for the purpose of launching artist careers, and providing a space to incubate new and innovative artwork that pushes that will be a catalyst towards our collective liberation. The arts although sometimes viewed as insignificant, accounts for 90 percent of US exports. We will continue to uplift artists and create more space for artists, expanding our residencies, and offerings in our space.

Our core technology is the technology used to create the various mediums our selected artists will employ in developing their new work. From visual arts, dance, music, photography, and film, to innovation/new media. 

Nest Crowdfunder film - which shows some of the artist we work or collaborate with currently.

https://youtu.be/UAbZ-lohmIg

With any creative work there are risks, but mostly our tech employed is safe, and most importanlty we provide a safe space to create.

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2 part time staff.

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