Rapid Residencies
Writing Space’s Rapid Residencies offer artists and designers two weeks of intensive one-on-one workshopping and feedback to develop a short form writing project.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and may be scheduled for any two-week period during the calendar year. Apply for a Rapid Residency here.
The Rapid Residency program launched in December 2022.
Alex Goldberg
(January 2025)
Alex Goldberg is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist and healing arts practitioner exploring the intersection between creativity and wellbeing.
During the Rapid Residency, Alex will work on a children’s book about nature, seasons, change, relationships and community. The story is inspired by a trip to Mine Kill State Park, the energy healing modality SourcePoint Therapy, and a journal that her mother wrote to her on her deathbed. As a long time educator with a deep love for learning from children, Alex has been interested in sharing the principles of SourcePoint therapy with kids. As a new mom, she began to find the words for this story during contact naps and late night rocking.
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Mother Maple #1, Watercolor, 2025
Ashley Culver
(May 2025)
Ashley Culver is an artist and writer based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work is in conversation with domestic space and desire for connection. She writes the column Alt-Arts, which profiles alternative art spaces in Toronto and the people who make them, for Cornelia Magazine.
During the Rapid Residency, Culver will revise a personal essay about her quest to find matching bedside tables when moving into a new apartment with her girlfriend. It is about lesbian relationships, making our own milestones as queers, and creating a home of one's own.
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I am thinking of the onion again, C Print, 24" x 36", 2021
Caitlin Ryan
(March 2023)
Caitlin Ryan is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Her work explores the nuances between comedy and humor, specifically using the vernacular of the uncanny to investigate systems of anthropology.
During the Rapid Residency, Ryan will put together a small publication of drawings and poems she's been working on over the past few years.
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Fran Lebowitz on David Letterman
Nicole Mauser
(December 2022)
Mauser’s paintings and installations investigate tensions at play between color fields, materiality, and gestures within a language of abstraction. Currently, she lives and works in Chicago where she is a Lecturer at The University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Art and co-organizes Space & Time gallery.
During the Rapid Residency, Mauser developed a third 'zine edition pdf on research related to painting interests in the studio.
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Color Memory, 2018, mdf shelf with edition of black and white ‘zines comprised of studio and painting research for viewers to take away