workspace - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

May 2012
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR
Dear Visitor,
Thank you for joining us at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)’s Workspace Open Studio
Weekend 2012. We are thrilled to present this group of 23 emerging visual artists- and writersin-residence.
Since September 2011, the Workspace residents have been working in their studios,
participating in weekly Salon Evenings, and developing a dialogue that will last well beyond the
June end-date of their residency.
Working in donated and adapted office space in the Financial District, artists and writers who
participate in LMCC’s residency programs are literally changing what it means to “work” on Wall
Street. Since 1997, in partnership with the generous real estate community in Lower Manhattan,
LMCC’s residency programs have provided valuable space, time, and community to hundreds of
artists working in multiple disciplines. With 24/7 access to this constantly changing part of the city,
LMCC’s artists- and writers-in-residence are uniquely positioned to experience, explore, interpret,
and re-imagine it from the inside.
Artists and writers participating in Workspace this year are working rigorously on projects with
varied conceptual content, ranging from current political narratives to formal investigations
of different media. Performance, painting, photography, installation, sculpture, video, poetry,
playwriting, fiction, and creative non-fiction are all represented here.
Open Studio Weekend is a special opportunity to experience the creative process of this exceptional
group of artists and writers, which happens most often behind closed doors.
Thank you to the artists and writers for generously opening their workspaces and sharing their
processes and to our dedicated staff, Board, space donors, and funders, without whom these
programs could not happen.
Very best,
Sam Miller
President
Melissa Levin
Director of Artist Residencies
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