Feminist Center for Creative Work is thrilled to offer open our call for proposals for our Artist in Residence program! Through this process, we will select two artist projects for our Winter/Spring and Fall 2028 residencies. Submit proposals here.

 

ABOUT THE RESIDENCY

 

Started in 2019, FCCW’s Artist in Residence program supports women, trans, nonbinary, and other gender-marginalized artists with three-month residencies that provide structural, material, and staff support in service of a significant project. Each residency culminates in a public presentation and collaborative programming that invites the FCCW community into the artist’s practice. 

This year, we’re looking for projects that respond to our theme: The World We Desire. We believe that art has the potential to be a political force and that creative work can reconfigure the collective imagination, making way for new understandings of self, community, life. At FCCW, we align with artists and thinkers who allow meaningful histories to inspire alternatives to oppressive systems: new ways of doing, being, and working in community with one another. Through your project proposals, we want to learn about the work, programs, and collaborations you can bring to FCCW that nurture the transformative potential of art to build the worlds and futures we desire.

We prioritize artists whose work engages intersectional feminist themes and includes opportunities for social activation and community engagement. We especially encourage BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled artists, and those who have a deep connection to Southern California* to apply. See past AIR projects. 

Each selected artist receives: 

• A three month-long residency at FCCW’s space in Northeast LA, including access to the space for planning and production, and exhibition.   
• A $7,500 stipend to support them during their time in residency 
• A production budget to develop the work, and support accompanying programs. 
• Dedicated staff support to develop the projects and programming in collaboration with FCCW and community. 
• Professional documentation of all work and events.
• Support in applying for additional funding for the residency project, or other related projects. 
• When appropriate, the publication of an accompanying book through Co-Conspirator Press (to complete after the residency period).

*Please note that the residency does not include a travel or housing stipend, beyond the artist fee. We are prioritizing local artists, who are able to be in Los Angeles consistently during their residency period.

 

THE PROPOSAL PROCESS

 

Our intention is to open this opportunity to a broad community of artists, including people with whom we don’t yet have a relationship. We’re honored to have  iris yirei hu, Mashinka Firunts Hakpian, and Daniela Lieja Quintanar on our review committee, and they will support the selection of the residents alongside FCCW staff. 

We are interested in applications from artists at all stages of their career, but with the experience to demonstrate they will be able to complete a project of this scope. We plan to notify applicants in February 2027 about the status of their proposal. 

To submit a proposal, please complete our form by 11:59PM Sunday, November 8 2026. 

FCCW will host office hours during the application period on Fridays, October 23 and 30 from 3-5PM. Please stop by to discuss any questions you might have about the residency program or application, or you can email us at [email protected]. 

 

ABOUT OUR REVIEW COMMITTEE

iris yirei hu is a multidisciplinary journey-based artist whose work moves across intimate paintings and sculptures to textile installations and public art. Drawing on animism, Chinese cosmology and medicine, and ancient technologies that understand the body as an energetic field in exchange with the living world, she uses dreamwork and craft to move between body, material, ecology, and spirit, proposing an alchemical world where everything is in relation. Central to her practice is a belief in collaboration and friendship as generative forces that transgress the myth of the individual: large-scale, labor-intensive works made alongside artist collaborators, teachings carried forward from Indigenous elders whose knowledge continues to inform her work, and an ongoing exchange with ancestors, plants, and dreams.

In 2022, LA Metro commissioned her to design a large-scale mosaic at the future D Line Westwood/UCLA station. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Armory Show; Center for Arts, Research, and Alliances; Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson; Plug In ICA; and John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Her honors include: Ruffin Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at the University of Virginia (2026), Longenecker-Roth Artist-in-Residence at UC San Diego (2025), Kohler Arts/Industry Residency in Pottery (2025), California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2022), Headlands Center for the Arts Artist-in-Residence (2022), California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (2021), and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2018, 2020). Her writing has appeared in Amerasia Journal and her work has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, CARLA, and Hyperallergic, among others. Photo Credit: Claudia Lucia

Daniela Lieja Quintanar is an independent curator and researcher. Her collaborative curatorial practice is inspired by everyday life, spaces of political struggle, and communal forms of knowledge production. Lieja Quintanar served as Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) from 2022 to 2026. Before that, she was Chief Curator and Director of Programming at LACE from 2016 to 2022. For the 2024 PST Art Getty Initiative, she curated “All Watched Over by the Machine of Loving Grace” at REDCAT and “Beatriz da Costa: (Un)disciplinary Tactics” for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) at Los Angeles Municipal Gallery.

For the mentioned PST Art exhibitions, she edited publications with East of Borneo and MIT, respectively. Recently, Lieja Quintanar curated the retrospective “Ingrid Hernandez: 20 Years of Under_Construction_” presented at Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT). At REDCAT, she organized “The Feminist Art Program (1970–75): Cycles of Collectivity” and commissioned solo shows by artists Lisa Alvarado, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Hande Sever, Abigail Collins, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Harmony Holiday. Additionally, she curated performances by Interspecifics, Kite, Guadalupe Maravilla, rafa esparza,  MUXX and Arca. In 2018, she was awarded the Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship for the exhibition “Intergalactix: Against Isolation/Contra el Aislamiento” (2021) at LACE. Lieja Quintanar was also part of the curatorial team for the MexiCali Biennial from 2018–19; the team curated several exhibitions in both Mexico and the US, along with projects on the border. In 2016, she served as Artistic Project Coordinator of the public art project La Sombra by Teresa Margolles, for CURRENT: LA WATER Biennial. Since 2015, she has been part of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, working with the East Side Local/Unión de Vecinos. She also collaborates with the collective Ultra-red and their militant sound journals.

Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Digital Humanities at UCLA and a 2025-27 Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School. Her book, The Institute for Other Intelligences, was published through X Artists’ Books in 2022. Her writing and commentary have appeared in Feminist Media Histories, AI & Society, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her performances and collaborations have been presented at MASS MoCA, REDCAT, Centre Pompidou, the 2024 Asian Art Biennial, and other venues. With Meldia Yesayan, she was the co-curator of “Encoding Futures” at OXY ARTS (2021) and “What Models Make Worlds” at the Ford Foundation Gallery (2023).