Announcing: The WasteShed's first-ever Youth Artist Residency!
If you're a youth artist who is looking to work on projects, develop new ideas, and explore your art/craft practice in an environment stacked with miscellaneous supplies, you're in luck! The WasteShed's Youth Artist Residency Program (2024) is selecting two youth artists to work on special projects this summer in collaboration with our staff and community.
This is a PAID opportunity for Chicago artists aged 13-18 to learn about art and art materials, help out with WasteShed communications and programs, and get firsthand experience with an organization working in environmental sustainability and grassroots art education.
Our students, called Youth Resident Artists, will:
Be part of our regular Artists Residency Program. They will create work on site during regular hours, using materials from the reuse center, will participate in a public exhibition to showcase the work created, and will present a collaborative public workshop, which they will develop in conjunction with WasteShed staff, centered around a creative environmental cause, age-group, and/or material of choice.
Work as regular staff members on the floor of our Humboldt Park (Chicago) creative reuse center
LOCATION: The WasteShed Chicago at 1754 North Kimball.
STUDENT BENEFITS: Youth Resident Artists will participate in an immersive, collaborative art-making and art-teaching experience in an unusual and inspiring environment. Youth Resident Artists will acquire hands-on skill or making experience, and a new understanding of materials and their use within a given media. They will improve their ability to problem solve and think creatively by working with reclaimed materials instead of ready-made options. Through their work on the floor and in creating an exhibition and a workshop, Youth Resident Artists will be connected to all aspects of the organization, including how artists interact with our programs and materials, program administration, programming, and community organizing, marketing, and volunteer coordination.
This program is made possible by Summer Youth Employment in the arts, supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts