Apply to Hotbox 2023

Application Open:
March 24th, 2023 through 11:59pm CST April 7, 2023

Applications due by 11:59pm CST April 7, 2023

It’s time for the 11th annual HOTBOX Residency!

MASS Gallery is happy to announce an open call for our annual residency program! 

For HOTBOX 2023, MASS will select two Austin artists or artist-teams to participate in the program. HOTBOX 2023 offers a tangible studio at your fingertips! MASS will provide each resident with a working studio space for one month, along with a $500 grant, and opportunities to collaborate with and engage the community through our Close Encounters programming. Close Encounters is a program designed to provide new methods of engaging the public’s curiosity. Open and broad, this prompt can be approached from a multitude of ways such as a performative event, a screening, or a radically executed thought experiment.

The aim of HOTBOX is to support and nurture projects that could not be realized otherwise, offering an avenue for experimentation and opportunities to test new work with viewer engagement. 

Interested artists may apply on our website March 24th through April 7th.

Details

Studio space provided in MASS’s main gallery space. Studio is furnished with track lighting, air conditioning, a chair and work table, wireless internet, a ladder, and basic installation tools. Residents are welcome to utilize MASS’s surrounding uncovered outdoor space for installations, performances, or production. MASS offers no production workshops of any kind but, if necessary, can assist in finding available options to satisfy specific project needs. A $500 honorarium will be awarded to each chosen artist or artist-team to assist in completing a successful residency.

Each selected artist or artist-team will be offered the gallery space for a one month time period, either June 15 - July 14th or July 16 - August 15th, 2023.

Each resident will be financially responsible for transportation costs to and from Austin as well as for housing, living expenses, local transportation, production costs and any additional materials.

Who is eligible?

The Hotbox residency program is open to artists working in any medium and any stage in their career.