Special Editions Residency Program is a competitive national residency program for emerging artists to create new work through exploration of printmaking. The Lower East Side Printshop offers an opportunity to complete an important new body of work in collaboration with one of our two experienced master printers, fully sponsored by the Printshop.

Artists, with or without printmaking skills, are provided with technical assistance, financial support, time and studio space to explore printmaking and complete a new body of work. Experimentation and exploration of new materials and processes are welcome.

The Printshop documents the artwork digitally, in printed materials including the annual catalogue, and on the Internet. The Printshop also provides exposure opportunities through on- and off-site exhibitions and studio visits. Awarded artists work alongside other emerging and mid-career artists in the Printshop's Collaborations Studio.

Residency includes:
• 12 day-long collaboration sessions with a master printer during a period of three to six months, plus, production/editioning service; independent studio access during the residency;
• All materials, full access to tools and equipment;
• $2,000 stipend;
• Catalogue;
• Printed and Internet publicity and free slide documentation;
• Limited travel and accommodation stipends for artists who live outside of New York City.

Special Editions residencies have been supported in large part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lilly Auchincloss Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and by the following residency programs Benefactors:
Monica Belag Forman
Lloyd and Laura Blankfein
Sonia and Richard Carty
Elizabeth Cohen
Iris Dankner
Ray and Carol Dovell
Jane Dresner Sadaka and Ned Sadaka
Susan Falk
Courtney Finch Taylor
Cheri Friedman
Susan and Richard A. Friedman
Jamie Gordon and Brad Lindenbaum
Francis Greenburger
Stephen Hays and Valerie Hughes
Michael Hoehn
John B. Koegel, Esq.
Mark and Janet Landau
Stacey and Curtis Lane
Jill and Tom Marino
Joanna Migdal
Newmark Knight Frank
Jane and John Nixon
Judy and Don Opatrny
Lisa Pevaroff and Gary Cohn
Michael Rudder
Robert and Donna Shafir
Laurie Thomson and Andy Chisholm
Cristin Tierney
John Vogelstein
Lisa and Lance West