Artists Will Get Paid To Show Off Their Work In Queens Hotels

ASTORIA, QUEENS -- Two lucky artists will have the chance to show off their work in Queens hotels in a paid three-month gig.

The Queens Council On The Arts is opening up its ArtHotel residency program for another year, offering two local artists a $3,000-stipend and a workspace in one of two borough hotels for three months.

The arts organization announced on its website that the program, which launched in 2017, would return for another year, with applications for the residency open to Queens-based artists through Jan. 8. The two lucky winners, announced the following week, will start their residencies on Feb. 15 in The Paper Factory Hotel in Long Island City and SpringHill Suites NY LaGuardia in Corona.

The paid hotel residency aims to offer artists a safe space to focus on their work, while also giving the public an inside look at an artists' creative process, according to the website.

Artists chosen for the residency will work in a fishbowl-like space in the hotel that allows patrons to watch them as they work, and must spend at least 20 hours of their residency interacting with interested patrons in open studio time.

"ArtHotel Residency is not a traditional residency where the artists work in a place of isolation, but a place where artists retreat to create their work and have an opportunity to focus inwardly on it and share her/his process with the public," QCA wrote on its website.

Artists must live in Queens and be at least 18 years old to apply. Those interested can visit the QCA website for more information or fill out an application here.

QCA representatives did not immediately return calls for comment.

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