Awards & Residencies
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In The Cut: between the studio and exhibition<br>SFArtsED Artists-in-Residence<br>SFArtsED Gallery Space / Minnesota Street Project<br>Oct 5–Nov 16, 2024
Sculptor Ruth Asawa believed fiercely that art can only be taught by working artists. As the founder of the Alvarado School Art Workshop (the predecessor of the San Francisco Arts Education Project), she put that tenet into practice by becoming the organization’s inaugural resident artist teacher way back in 1968.
Today, with dozens of visual and performing artists mentoring children in more than twenty public schools under the auspices of SFArtsED, the artist-in-residency program remains the cornerstone of the organization.
"Our nationally recognized program is designed to enhance the San Francisco Unified School District’s own VAPA (Visual Arts and Performing Arts Learning) standards, and to support its noble mission to ‘revitalize the education of our young citizens by capturing the diverse cultural and artistic energy of a city that is internationally renowned for its love of the arts.’"
Inaugural Winner
Spring 2018
The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital exhibition and archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants.
The Hopper Prize was established for the sole purpose of advancing the field of visual art by providing direct financial assistance to artists working in all media.
Each grant cycle is juried by a new team of contemporary curators who select grant winners on the basis of artistic excellence and the promise of future potential.
"The [Hopper Prize] submissions represented the extraordinary breadth and vitality of artistic practices across the world."
—Misa Jeffereis, Juror, Hopper Prize, Spring 2018
Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
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Inaugural Liquitex Research Residency</br>Minnesota Street Project Artist Studios</br>2017-2018
Liquitex partnered with Minnesota Street Project to provide four Bay Area artists fully funded residencies at 1240 Minnesota Street. Developed to support the creation, presentation and dissemination of contemporary painting practices, the residency aims to support emerging artists by providing work space, materials, resources, and engagement within the studio program at Minnesota Street Project.
The launch of the residency coincided with Liquitex’s launch of Cadium-Free Acrylic paints.
Art-making outside of my usual environment at the residency has provided me with time to reflect, research, forge relationships and produce work, while exploring new locations, different cultures, and experimenting with different materials.
“We are pleased to present Erik Parra’s first solo show with the gallery. Parra is among the first recipients of the Liquitex Research Residency Program at Minnesota Street Project Artist Studios.”
—Eleanor Harwood, Owner, Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Professional Development Program
Nominated by Southern Exposure
2010
A group of 24 artists were selected by three San Francisco arts organizations to participate in a weekend-long workshop with Creative Capital. The workshop focused on professional development in the arts, learning to market yourself and fund your work.
Iris Project Resident
Iris Project Residency
September 2020
Iris Project offers a unique no-cost, no-obligation residency program, providing an essential platform for artists to examine their relationships with institutions, society and their own practice.
My approach to the residency was to try and accomplish some of the ideas I had been working with in my paintings, but in traditional drawing media and to grow those ideas into a new direction or tangent in my work.
