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.

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