CALL FOR RESIDENT PERFORMING ARTISTS
Back for another year, The MAAS Building and Threshold Collective are offering two Artist Residencies between January and March 2025. We hope to enable, support and elevate creators by encouraging imagination, innovation and connection during the colder months.
WHO MAY APPLY:
This year, we’re taking applications from performing artists based in Philly - and beyond. Creators from across the US are welcome! We encourage submissions from any and everyone, and give special consideration to proposals from marginalized communities, people of color, women, non-binary and LGBTQIA+ people.
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THE RESIDENCIES:
Both residents will have three weeks’ access to the MAAS Upstairs Event Space to use as rehearsal/creation space, as well as an onsite home in the MAAS Cottage. You may book this Upstairs space as often as you like in accordance with our prior commitments - and at the culmination of the residency, the MAAS Team will support you in hosting a public event to share the work you have created.
THE THRESHOLD RESIDENCY: For a second year, we are collaborating with The Threshold Collective in seeking to fill one of our residencies with an artist or group creating work centered on the themes of loss, grief, death and dying.
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HOW TO APPLY:
Please assemble the following materials in one email, by clicking here > booking@maasbuilding.com.
A current CV
Links to documentation of (1-2) previous works (no image/video attachments, please)
An artist statement of no more than 200 words
Which Residency you’re interested in holding - MAAS Open Call, or Threshold
Preference in dates (if any)
Description of why you want this residency and what you hope to work on during your potential residency at Maas (no more than 400 words)
A rough idea of the public event you’d like the residency to culminate in: i.e. a performance, workshop or recording.
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DEADLINE
We will accept applications through Sunday, December 1st 2024, with notification by Friday, December 13th 2024.
THE SPACE
Upstairs at MAAS is a mid-sized event space and dance studio featuring wood floors, high ceilings and original exposed brick. The space reflects the industrial history of the building, with heavy beams and steel that once hoisted trolleys traversing the walls and loft.
Size: 1300 SF (roughly 36' x 35')
Theatrical lighting and pa system included
Ceiling Height: 15' - 9' (Sloped ceiling)
NOTE: The Space is accessed by one flight of stairs. We unfortunately do not have another means of access to accommodate differently abled people.
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ABOUT THE PANEL
GIA CAVALLI is the Manager of The MAAS Building, and spends her days bringing together and curating the events, artists, collectives and communities make MAAS their home.
CATHERINE BIRDSALL and REBECCA MAURY are the founding partners of MAAS Partner The Threshold Collective, an organization dedicated to therapeutic healing practice primarily centered on death & grief work, end of life care and advocacy.
BEN RIESMAN is the owner of The MAAS Building and the mind behind our mission. In addition to curating MAAS programming and being the building’s caretaker-in-chief, Ben is also a musician and runs the Hi5 and Jamtown Recording Studios.
EVELYN LANGLEY is a maker, farmer, caregiver and performance artist. She grows food as MAAS Partner dirtbaby farm CSA and creates dance-based art both alone and in collaboration with others.