Feminist Center for Creative Work is thrilled to offer an open call for proposals for our Artist in Residence program! Through this application process, we will select three artist projects for our Fall 2026, Spring 2027, and Fall 2027 residencies. 

 

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. 

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. 

Past AIR projects have explored a range of issues, including exploitative globalization within new age therapies, prison abolition, parental labor, co-building trauma-informed somatic AI, and diasporic lineage and memory through immersive installations, co-learning frameworks, and collaborative events. 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 consistently in Los Angeles during their residency period.

 

THE PROPOSAL PROCESS

 

This is the first year we are offering an open proposal  process with community review for selection, and our intention is to open this opportunity to a broader community of artists. We’re honored to have Andra Nadirshah, Carmen Argote, and Tiffany Barber on our review committee, and they will support the selection of the residents alongside FCCW staff and board members. 

We are interested in applications from artists at all stages of their career, with experience that demonstrates they will be able to complete a project of this scope. We plan to notify applicants in February  2026 about the status of their proposal. 

To submit a proposal, please complete our form by 11:59PM Sunday, November 30 2025. 

FCCW will host office hours during the application period on Fridays, November 7 and 21 from 2-4PM. 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

 

Andra Nadirshah is a curator. Previously, she participated in De Ateliers’ residency program as PHILTH HAUS 2019-2021 as well as FCCW’s artist-in-residence program as LYLEX. She currently works as the Director of Morán Morán. She is the co-founder of Ceradon Gallery with Stevie Soares. Photo credit: Bren Perry

 

 

 

 

 

Carmen Argote (b. 1981, Guadalajara, Mexico) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose work points to the body, class, and economic structures in relation to architecture and personal history. Argote’s practice draws upon their immediate environment and the networks of labor and consumption that mark these spaces. She manifests these connections through drawings, paintings, sculpture, installation, video and performance that directly reference the visual language of abstraction. 

 

Tiffany E. Barber is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets, and award-winning documentaries. Her work focuses on visual and performing artists of the Black world. Assistant Professor of African American Art at UCLA, she is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize and author of Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation (NYUP, May 2025).