Winter/Spring 2025 Funded 3-Week Residencies in Pasadena, CA (Los Angeles)

The Residency Project (TRP) provides time and space in support of creative research and artistic experimentation, with an emphasis on creating opportunities for historically underrepresented artists—women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, artists with disabilities, and parents—as well as artists who actively pursue environmentally sustainable practices. TRP is not envisioned as an organization. It’s imagined as an organism. The Residency Project lives and breathes, and it evolves with each artist-in-residence. TRP’s stewards invite co-authorship as to what an artist residency is and can be. Each artist who engages with the project shapes TRP’s identity through the creative work they undertake during and long after their residency. Underpinned by Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture and Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of relational aesthetics, The Residency Project is an embodied investigation into how, through human interaction and intentional living, we can engage alternative social models not built upon the tenets of capitalism or colonialist notions of land ownership. Based out of a little Craftsman bungalow inhabited by TRP’s founders and stewards, TRP @ 880 asks specifically how the archetypal home can serve as both a physical and conceptual framework for contemporary art practice. In essence, the residency @ 880 is an opportunity to live and work in an intimate space where creative cohabitation and collective meaning-making are core.