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Join date: Jul 22, 2024
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Feb 3, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Taking Up Residence: Notes on the Complicated Experience of Being an Artist-in-Residence
In 2016, I went to my first artist residency. After spending months preparing applications, nursing rejecction wounds, and celebrating a few victories, I accepted the invitation from Santa Fe Art Institute to be a part of their thematic ‘Water Rights’ cohort. I was hot off the heels of Agile Rascal’s inaugural cross-country trip, and no longer stuttered or got weird when someone called me an artist. I was finally ready to take up residence! I showed up in October of 2016 with my laptop, a...
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Nov 6, 2025 ∙ 4 min
WEBSITES - the NEW OLD platform that’s making a comeback & Artist Spotlight: Art for All Concord
As the year comes nearer to the end, I’ve been taking some time to reflect on this first year of Creative Structures — and on the incredible variety of artists I’ve met, supported, and been inspired by along the way. There’s still plenty to learn about running a business: how to get the word out, how to value my time, how to keep projects moving when clients get busy — but overall, I truly love this work. My experiences as a hustling artist, an attentive ghostwriter, and a...
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May 23, 2025 ∙ 4 min
THE END OF ARTS FUNDING MIGHT ACTUALLY BE THE BEGINNING / 'SAYWUT' LANDS 60K ARTISTS AT WORK GRANT
It's been about five months since I soft-launched Creative Structures , and in this time, I've loved the sheer variety of creative folks I've gotten to work with. Already, I’ve helped a Beatboxer land a $60,000 grant (more below!), built websites for several visual artists, supported a musician with time management as he works to complete a new album, and offered ongoing writing support to an activist working on his memoir. It's been a real crash course in the diversity of ways of...
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