for Performance^
217 E.42nd Street - a fully outfitted black box venue:
Capacity: 74
Rates: $300 day rate, $500 weekend, $1,500 weekly (includes lighting and sound).
For information or booking inquiries for this space, or if you have questions regarding other uses of the theater or window performance space, contact: Marc Dale at 212.391.8151, x25 or dale@chashama.org.
for Studios ^
chashama awards artists private or semi-private studios at highly subsidized rates. Studio awards typically range from one to twelve months.
Applications will be reviewed by an independent panel of visual arts professionals and available space will be granted to individual artists. Applicants not granted space will be notified if other spaces become available in the near future, relative to their application.
Artists may also apply for studio residency at chashama North, a farmhouse in the Hudson Valley. For more information about chashama North: click here.
More information about our visual arts program: visual arts studios page.
(You can join our opportunities list to be informed about our acquiring new space and other opportunities for artists at chashama.)
for Equipment^
chashama also has equipment available for rental. See Tech Specs for 217 above for list of equipment available at 217 E.42nd Street. For further inquiries and other inventory contact:
darryl@chashama.org
or 212.391.8151, x27.
Visual Arts ^
chashama provides subsidized studio space and free exhibit space for artists as circumstances permit.
for more information, go to our Visual Arts Program page or contact Programming Director Janusz Jaworski at: janusz@chashama.org or 212.391.8151, x26.
Windows ^
www.chashama.org/windows.php
ATTENTION: CHASHAMA IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR OUR 266 W 37TH STREET, 112 W 44TH STREET and 679 THIRD AVE VENUES. DEADLINE: JULY 13, 5P
*NEW* Subject to availability, chashama is now offering a $50/week rental of a Sprint wireless broadband router (with $50 deposit).
Through the Windows Program, chashama helps build a broader audience for contemporary art and performance through multi-disciplinary performances and visual installations in vacant storefront windows. The program creates an ideal situation for artists to further develop new and old work in a flexible environment. Performances and installations may be interactive, allowing audience members to creatively contribute to work made in unexpected public places, and form a relationship with chashama artists.
266 W 37th: This window space is located on a Garment District block with heavy daytime foot traffic, and it is fully equipped with theatrical sound and lighting. If you are proposing a visual art installation, please consider this. For a complete floor plan and technical specs, please go to http://www.chashama.org/266w37/index.php.
112 W 44th: This installation/window space is within the tourist zone of Time Square, close to Bryant Park, and often has packs of theater goers passing by. It is a large space with a wide window, and a back room for costume changes or additional set pieces. Track lighting normally used for exhibits can be refocused into the space and controlled from the back room. A sound system is not currently installed, but may be in the future. For a complete floor plan, please go to http://www.chashama.org/112w44/index.php.
679 3rd Avenue: The building is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 43rd Street with three 7x12 and two 4x12 windows on the 3rd Avenue side, and fifteen windows facing 43rd Street ranging from approximately 4x12 to 4x10.
DEADLINES
For projects August through December, 2009,
applications are due into chashama's offices by
5p on July 13, 2009.
Download Window application form (PDF format)
Download Window Program Fall/Winter 2009 guidelines (PDF format)
For more information, please email your questions to Programming Director Janusz Jaworski at janusz@chashama.org.
chashama North^
Mission:
An artists residency program that fosters a sense of community through shared meals of organic, local foods.
In its fifth year, chashama North continues to evolve as an opportunity for emerging artists. The core of the residency program will be the shared meals. There will be a shared mid-day meal every day, and shared supper Wednesdays and Sundays. The primarily vegetarian meals will focus on wholesome, organic, sustainable and local foods. Cooking and eating together will foster a sense of community and encourage a dialogue about contemporary art and life.
chashama North page.
PERFORMANCE: ^
chashama Outdoors
By partnering with community organizations and neighborhood development groups, chashama produces outside art festivals throughout New York City. This year, chashama again brings the OASIS festival outdoors through the 4th annual Site Specific Sundays at Waterside Plaza, located between 25th and 29th Streets on the FDR drive by the East River. Up to four companies or individual artists will be selected to create site-specific outdoor performance. Each company or artist will be assigned one of three Sundays in July, with performances to take place at 3PM and 5PM.
join opportunities for artists^
To receive notification of new opportunities for artists, join our opportunities@chashama mailing list. we will send word of new opportunities directly by way of the list as well as by listings posted on this page.
join chashama events newslist^
To keep informed about performances, exhibitions and other events at chashama, join our events newslist.
chashama supports emerging and underrepresented artists by providing one of the most elusive commodities in New York City: space to create. chashama works with landlords and developers to identify underutilized real estate which the owner is willing to donate on a short-term, temporary basis, preferring to see underutilized spaces put to good use, looked after and maintained while they are awaiting commercial tenants.
After converting these spaces into temporary theaters, galleries, artist studios and rehearsal spaces, we invite artists to use them for free or at highly subsidized rates. Through our efforts, artists are better able to live and create their work in New York City.
Over our ten year history, chashama has worked with many real estate owners, including The Durst Organization, Newmark & Company, Forest City Ratner, George Comfort & Sons, Brause Realty, C & K Properties and HEC Real Estate.
chashama is committed to a policy of equal opportunity in all its activities and programs, including employment. chashama does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, national origin, citizenship status, political affiliation, socioeconomic status or religious belief.