LUX Center Artist In Residence - Ceramics - 26/27
The LUX Center for the Arts is dedicated to transforming lives through art. We are a community of art lovers providing education through art classes, artist in residency programs, gallery exhibitions, and community building. We believe that LUX can help people make meaningful connections to art regardless of who they are.
Art and community are key elements of our mission and passion. LUX Center for the Arts has been the heart of creativity in Lincoln for more than 47 years through our diverse programs, events, classes, and memberships. We provide an inclusive, community focused environment for artists of all ages and skill levels.
Our artists in residency (AIR) program allows artists to practice, grow, develop and engage their skills in our community. We accomplish this by connecting our residents with a variety of resources, such as private studio space, teaching opportunities, and opportunities to show their work or curate shows in our gallery spaces. Connection to our community is fostered by bringing residents into contact with local galleries, art patrons, community groups and fellow artists. Residents are encouraged to be active participants in helping us build community through hands-on art making events, outreach opportunities and public engagement.
This isn’t just an opportunity to focus on creating your own work. It is an opportunity to gain inspiration and perspective in a dynamic, multi-faceted contemporary art environment.
Residents bring with them a unique set
2601 N 48th St
Lincoln, NE 68504
United States
Residency Program Information
Residency Program Summary
Application Information
Most of our residents have earned their MFA before joining us, but this is not required for application. Equivalent experience (residencies, apprenticeships, internships, or other non-traditional education experiences) will be considered. The LUX has a focus on manual (non-digital) arts and does not currently provide residencies for digital artists. Residencies are granted based on quality of work, desire to teach, community-mindedness, experience and demonstrated seriousness of practice.
Residents will be responsible for teaching classes (multi-week programs) and workshops (single events). Many of our participants are adults, but experience and enthusiasm for teaching children grades K-12 is helpful. LUX teaches regular foundational classes throughout the year but relies upon our residents to develop a new curriculum. Residents will be asked to submit their own ideas for classes and will be given the opportunity to teach at least one class which is focused on a topic of their choosing. Applicants who demonstrate a passion for teaching, previous experience of teaching, and a willingness to teach a variety of media, will be well positioned to take advantage of this residency.
International artists may apply but you must already have a visa that allows them to work. Artists-in-Residence are employees of LUX and must be able to receive pay for their stipends and teaching compensation. LUX is unable to sponsor visa applications.
LUX is committed to paying artists for their time. LUX provides two monthly stipends: $400 for housing and $120 for materials. These are unrestricted funds open to discretion of the resident and provided regardless of any other paid hours.
Residents earn an hourly wage of $20 per hour for any work, including: teaching classes for the LUX, working in the gallery, and selling their work in our gallery shop. The only exception to this is teaching out after school outreach classes, which are paid at $25 per hour.
Residents are considered employees. Paid time off will be accrued and available for residents according to Nebraska state law as an additional benefit.
Residents are responsible for their own living expenses. LUX Center for the Arts offers no housing for residents, but there are many affordable housing options in our University Place/East Campus neighborhood.
LUX is unable to provide medical insurance. Residents do not accrue time off, holiday pay or other employment benefits.
Income Range - Below is an explanation of expected income based on the number of hours per week worked. Actual compensation may vary depending on desired workload and needs of each individual resident.
All residents are expected to teach between 1 and 3 classes or workshops per week. We are committed to filling and running any class that is scheduled, but not all classes run as scheduled. Residents can decide if they would like to take additional hours beyond teaching. Opportunities to work in the gallery, shop or any other area in support of LUX will be taken into consideration and paid for at the same rate. Special events taking place seasonally, as well as hours in required meetings and supporting gallery shows for First Friday are also paid hours.
Residents are responsible for requesting work hours and tracking hours worked, and LUX will provide at least 15 paid hours each week upon request.
Here is an example of how hours worked and the monthly stipends might look. For illustration only. Actual hours will depend on submitted hours and current policy. All numbers listed below are gross pay and do not account for taxes. Historically AIRs work between 10 and 30 hours each week.
Example:
Assuming a resident completes the full residency period with paid hours averaging 15 hours a week, their annual gross pre-tax pay would be:
$4,800 (housing stipend, $400 x 12 months)
$1,440 (materials stipend, $120 x 12 moths)
$15,000 (hourly pay, $20/hour x 15 hours, x 50 weeks)
Total: $21,240
LUX residents and employees are paid bi-weekly.
Accessibility
LUX Center is committed to constantly evaluating and improving our accessibility for residents. We have limited in-place accessibility options for visual or auditory support, but we are willing to work with artists on an individual basis and discuss tools and interventions that might be provided on a case by case basis.
The majority of residents will have full access to LUX residency programming, including access to studio spaces, shared work spaces, galleries and programming.
All buildings, studio spaces, shared work spaces, galleries and administrative spaces are wheelchair accessible. Our main building is more than 100 years old, and our classroom spaces have all be retrofitted and were not purpose built with accessibility in mind. Some equipment, including kilns, may not be fully accessible for all residents depending on use of wheelchair or other assistive devices. We do not have tools in place for residents who need audio/visual support.
Housing & Accomodation
Studio & Facilities
Facilities
Ceramics Center:
600 sq. ft. hand building studio with small slab roller, wall-mounted clay extruder, and commercial low-fire glazes. We have five electric kilns: one test kiln, one small kiln, two standard size Skutt kilns and one large L&L kiln. All of them are computer controlled.
Gas Kiln - A downdraft, soft brick reduction kiln with 14 cubic feet of stacking space powered with Ward forced air burners (the hot rod of kiln burners!). The kiln is capable of cone 6 - 10 reduction / oxidation firings. Makers of larger scale clay works will appreciate the kiln's front load design that maximizes loading space with a center pivot door as well as the addition of Ransome piggyback pilot burners making long, controlled preheats possible.
370 sq. ft. throwing studio with 9 electric wheels.
120 sq. ft. Dry materials and clay mixing room with a large selection of dry materials and Peter Pugger mixer dedicated to mixing our teaching studio clay body which is low-fire red earthenware.
100 sq. ft. Dry materials and glaze mixing room with a large selection of glaze materials for community studio and personal use.
We do not have a clay mixer available at this time.
Education Wing:
670 sq. ft. classroom with Takach Etching Press (26×40″ bed).
600 sq. ft. mixed media studio with ft.72 sq. ft. basic metals studio with acetylene torches, large metal shear, rolling mill, drill press and sandblaster.
Galleries:
West Gallery - 36'x27' feature exhibition space curated by exhibition committee with shows that change bimonthly.
East Gallery - 15'x20' exhibition space curated by exhibition committee, shows change monthly. Residents generally have their solo show in this space.
Gladys Lux Print Collection – a museum space where exhibitions change quarterly and are curated out of our historic print collection. Prints were collected by our founder Gladys Lux to use as teaching tools for her university students.
Wake Gallery - 18'x12' exhibition space for student and community exhibitions, shows change monthly
Community Gallery – 40'x30' exhibition space for student and community exhibitions, shows change monthly.