The Wave Pool Art Space Is Your Space Program awards sponsored residencies to local, national, and international artists interested in engaging Cincinnati with their artistic practice. Residents become part of the dynamic artistic community of Cincinnati, Ohio and are asked to engage the community in at least one public workshop, program, or performance during their stay.

  
Wave Pool’s artist in residency program is unique in that the artists stay in our Residency apartment onsite, just across the street from our gallery space. The successful candidate will conduct a project aimed at a specific audience and/or purpose within our diverse urban climate.

Residencies of 2-6 weeks include flexible live/work studio space, a month long exhibition in our gallery (when appropriate), opportunities for artistic community engagement and programming, and a $2000 stipend for the project (which includes living/travel expenses). 

Artist In Residence ‘Art Space Is Your Space’

Once a year, Wave Pool offers a different kind of artist residency program that builds upon a private, local collection of world class work by female-identifying artists: the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection. This residency, like our others, will be socially-engaged, working collaboratively with our neighborhood and specific community groups within it. The Artist in Residence will have intimate access to the Vance Waddell collection, which features the work of artists who have and are working to resist oppression, subvert public scrutiny, and suggest alternative visual paradigms within the personal and political spheres. The successful candidate will respond to and build their project around the concepts and ideas offered in artworks held in the collection, as they create something new, needed, and proactive for our community.

The Resident-selected inspirational work(s) from the Vance Waddell collection will then be on public view, throughout the course of their exhibition. More importantly however, we hope that the work(s) will be activated through the socially engaged artist driven project and will extend the messages of these historically significant works out into our community with programs and partnerships. 

Selected project grant awardees will receive:

* A $2,000 budget to create a socially-engaged exhibition in our main gallery space
* A flexible live/work space on site during the course of their Residency
* Access to a private collection of radical feminist-leaning artwork
* Programming and installation support from Wave Pool
* Staffing support to help execute the experience for the public during open hours

  

The Vance Waddell Feminist Residency

**Calling All Aspiring Curators!**

Wave Pool offers emerging curators the opportunity to execute an exhibition in our main storefront gallery with mentorship and funding support to assist its success.

  
Beyond internships at local museums, the art industry is overwhelmingly lacking in opportunities for aspiring, up-and-coming curators. This program, which began in 2018, seeks to foster ongoing professional development for individuals with curatorial inclinations, in order to find their voice and gain valuable hands-on experience. 

  
The Curatorial Residency program enables those in need of resume-building experience to pursue this kind of professional development, which is often only accessible to the privileged few. 

  
Forming new creative partnerships and engaging community residents through programming, our Curatorial Residents for 2024 serve Wave Pool’s mission: Pairing communities’ knowledge of their needs with artists’ sense of possibility.

  
The Wave Pool Curatorial Residency Program is decided by an Open Call and Jury process in the Fall of every year, after applications are submitted in the Summer.

The 2025 Resident will receive: 

* a modest exhibition budget of $2,000
* a curatorial honoraria of $500
* mentorship
* administrative support
* marketing assistance
* gallery space and installation assistance to fulfill bold visions

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