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The Resident Artist Program

A studio of your own

For emerging and mid-career artists ready to grow creatively and professionally. Six private, unfurnished studios for artists in any medium, in the old waiting room of Union Station.

Membership is $75 a month. It helps cover administration, artist programming and the upkeep of the building.

Residents are chosen by a jury independent of MAX's board, then interviewed by its selection committee.

What a residency includes

Your studio, any hour Access around the clock, plus the shared wash-down sink, art library, business center and lounge.

Exhibitions A show at the end of every term: curate a group show, mount your first solo show, curate again, then a capstone solo show. And a page of your own on this website.

Growth The Resident Artist Lecture Series, monthly seminars with people who work in the industry, and feedback from an advisory board.

Community Monthly mixers, shared events, the First Friday Art Walk, and MAX's Art Heist and Artini fundraisers.

How to apply

Read the rubric

See how applications are scored before you start.

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Apply

Answer the questions here on the site, upload your portfolio and résumé, and pay the $35 application fee as you send it.

Start your application
Meet us

Come and see the studios, and meet the selection committee for your interview.

Questions first? Write to info@maxocala.org. The artists already here are a good place to see what a residency looks like.

The Affiliate Program

Connect, grow and lead

A flexible membership in three tiers for artists at every stage — a launchpad for being seen, leading in the community, and making a living from your work. No studio needed.

Tier 1 · a quick sign-up Affiliate $10 a month

For being seen and connected without a big commitment.

Submit to three juried group exhibitions a year
A profile in the MAX online gallery
The Art of Business monthly newsletter

Sign up

Tier 2 · for artists who host Member $35 a month

For artists ready to lead free events. Everything in Affiliate, and:

MAX's flex space for up to four free public events a month
Professional photography every other month
Guaranteed places in two curated exhibitions a year
Free entry to selected workshops by other MAX artists

Apply

Tier 3 · for artists who teach Partner $75 a month

For artists running paid classes and programs. Everything in Member, and:

Space for up to four paid classes or workshops a month
Keep 100% of what your classes earn
Priority in the newsletter, on the website and on social media
First access to special projects and grant-funded work

Apply

Member applications ask for a short event proposal and a portfolio sample; Partner applications, a class concept, scheduling needs and how you would use the space.

Alumni

Once a resident

A residency ends; being part of MAX does not. Former residents stay connected through the MAX Alumni Club, and every year the Alumni Showcase brings their work back to the station walls.

Your artist page and your work in MAX's online gallery, for sale on this website, for good
Shows MAX opens to its alumni, announced to you in the artist portal
The annual Alumni Showcase, your work back on the station's walls
Nothing to pay: membership dues end with the residency

Many alumni come back the other way too: to mentor a new resident, give a talk or a workshop, or give a piece to Art Heist. New residents learn a great deal from somebody who has done it, and alumni are some of MAX's best ambassadors.

A MAX alum who has lost touch? Write to info@maxocala.org and we will be glad to reconnect.

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