AIRs

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Artists in Residence(s) is an artist-run community and exhibition program based in New York’s Hudson Valley that invigorates homes with artistic programming during all stages of the listing process. Recognizing both the ever-present need for accessible artist resources and opportunities and the high turnover real estate market of the Hudson Valley, founders Wilkin Lai and Grace Bromley intend to foster a symbiotic relationship between the two. Both based in the Hudson Valley, Grace, an artist and independent curator, and Wilkin, a creative real estate professional, were introduced through Grace’s pursuit to purchase a small, unconventional space to begin an artist-run gallery. Wilkin’s passion for working with artists and his disenchantment with the process of real estate, combined with Grace’s desire to create spaces and showing opportunities for artists amidst structural affordability crisis, led Artist in Residence(s) to emerge as a working answer to both. Artists in Residence(s) programming highlights the domestic space as a liminal and speculative site: open-ended opportunities such as short-term residencies, performances, exhibitions are shaped and informed by the temporary spaces inhabited by artists during the real estate cycle. In a tandem push against AI and an effort to build and preserve an artistic community, every aspect of the listing process will be entirely artist-produced, from documenting spaces and writing about listings to working open house events. Artists in Residence(s) also offers residents of Upstate NY the exciting and unconventional opportunity to have their homes become a part of this project, further developing interdependent relationships between artists and the communities that sustain them.