Moderated by Jia Yi Gu, the discussion brings together Mary Boo Anderson and Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf from the Ikea Residency, Lenka Clayton from An Artist Residency in Motherhood, yétúndé ọlágbajú from Level Ground, and Debra Scacco from Air to reflect on the institutional and artistic propositions of their artist-founded residency programs, and their work expanding on where and how artist residencies are sited. Residencies are understood as artist programs where a hosting institution brings artists and creative practitioners together to live, work, and co-learn together. Temporanity alongside intensity define the residency experience, where the resident leaves their daily life and its context to join a host institution for a temporary period of time to live, work, and learn. New environments, architecture, encounters, and people offer artists a renewal towards the research and development of their practice. Sociability and co-learning are also integral to the residency experience. This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required. The personal and professional life of an artist are deeply interwoven, leading to uneven access to and capacity to participate in residencies are often uneven. Lenka Clayton developed a self-directed, open-source artist residency for artists who are mothers, applying the framework of an artist residency to her own maternity. Accompanied by a manifesto, documentation, business cards, website and studio, the Artists-in-Residence-in-Motherhood hosted Clayton for three years before expanding to companion sites of motherhood in all 50 US states and 81 countries. Residencies often require an artistic output or documentation of the live-work process by guest artists. The Residency Program by Level Ground, a Los Angeles based artist collective and production incubator creating experiments in empathy, invites artists to produce a collective learning project — the syllabus — foregrounding the co-learning that happens in residency programs. The Syllabus Project, led by staff artists yétúndé ọlágbajú and Leslie Foster, becomes the de-facto site for knowledge gathering and sharing, offering a documentation of specific expertise in topics such as Queering Grief, Linear Time, Enjoying Casual Art and Home-making 101. Founded by Debra Scacco, the residency program Air hosts artists within climate organizations to engineer new perceptions and relationships between artistic making and thinking and climate strategies. Defined as a project of relationships, Air supporting artists as strategic thinker working at the intersection of climate and interconnectivity, providing stipend, research support and access to climate-centered organizations such as the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. The Ikea Residency is “what you make of it”. Founded in 2023 by Mary Boo Anderson and Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf, the residency invites artists into creative partnership with the commercial environment of Ikea. Without permission nor formal affiliation with the corporation, the Ikea Residency probes the limits of consumerist space by inviting artists to intervene and amplify the big box environment through plein air painting, field trips into furniture, and discreet installations. Image: Courtesy of Lenka Clayton