Participating in a residency is an opportunity to dedicate time to challenge and expand your practice in a focused environment. In this workshop, artist Holly Chang shares an overview of the different types of residencies available, resources of where to look for photo-specific opportunities and tools for putting together a successful application and securing funding. Participants are encouraged to bring questions or past/current applications should there be time for feedback.
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WhatNext: New Gen Artist Series is a year-round free program from Gallery 44 that supports emerging artists aged 16–35 as they begin to shape their careers. Through seasonal virtual workshops, the series offers practical guidance on topics like freelancing, finding opportunities, writing for your practice, contemporary photography, and building sustainable professional habits.
The workshops are designed to be approachable and flexible, offering tools and advice that speak directly to the needs of early-career artists. By focusing on skill-building, connection, and care, WhatNext helps new-generation artists gain the confidence and knowledge they need to move forward in their creative journeys.
Holly Chang is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, natural dyeing, collage and installation. In particular, she is drawn to found and discarded textile materials, archives, and images which she repurposes and transforms - she is fascinated in how forming and reforming can construct new narratives around identity. Chang is focused on the transformation of materials and processes of making as a way to explore hybridity - between herself and the mediums she engages with. She is a queer mixed-race artist from Toronto, Canada and these experiences inform her approach to material practice - investigating the intersections and parallels between alternative ways of existing.
