Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, 20 Jay Street, Ste 720, Brooklyn, NY (2026)

The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies. Its mission is to provide a working studio and community for artists. Artists are selected annually based on merit from a competitive pool of applicants by a professional jury.

05/15/2026

The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program is pleased to announce the 2026-2027 cohort of incoming resident artists. From a national pool of nearly 2,000 applicants, seventeen artists have been awarded year-long, rent-free studio spaces in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Residents are chosen annually by a jury of distinguished contemporary artists. This year’s 2026-2027 jury was composed of current SWSP Artists Advisory Committee members Matthew Deleget, Phong Bui, and Didier William ‘12, and SWSP alumni Josephine Halvorson ‘09, and William Villalongo ‘05.

The recipients of the 2026-2027 SWSP residency are: Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Anne Gilman, Beverly Fishman, David Shrobe, Davis Arney, E.E. Ikeler, Emily Janowick, Isaiah Davis, Jonathan Sanchez Noa, Khalif Tahir Thompson, Lee Maxey, Louis Block, Madjeen Isaac, Mariel Rolwing Montes, Olivia Jia, Satpreet Kahlon, and Takuji Hamanaka

04/23/2026

Thanks to for stopping by Sharpe-Walentas Open Studios this weekend! Photos & story by Aaron Short.
Slide 1: Visitors in Bianca Fields’ studio
Slide 3: (top) Celeste Diaz Falzone’s studio (bottom) A recent work in Natalie Collette Wood’s Swallowed By Nature series that uses found objects, succulents, pillow moss, coconut moss, and galvanized steel
Slide 5: (top) Jason Karolak’s geometric light boxes (bottom) Amy Cutler, “Hum” (2025), lithograph in 22 colors on Rives BFK White paper

04/21/2026

Thank you for attending Sharpe-Walentas Open Studios 2026!

Open Studios 2026 was an amazing weekend of art and community. Congratulations to the seventeen resident artists and thank you to all of our visitors (over 3,400 for the weekend). View photos from the event below. Many thanks to for capturing the event.
Keep an eye out for our upcoming announcement of the 2026-2027 cohort of incoming artists!

03/11/2026

This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location on the 4th floor of 20 Jay Street!
Leading up to open studios, we’ll be making posts featuring each of this year’s SWSP artists:
Andrew Brischler
Bianca Fields
Celeste Falzone
Dakota Gearhart
Deborah Bright
Don Perlis
Eva Davidova
Ivana Dama .dama
Jake Troyli
Jason Karolak
Jennifer Sirey
linn meyers
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Natalie Collette Wood
Ohan Breiding
Tracy Miller
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for more!

12/15/2025

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. The application deadline is January 15, 2025 at 11:59pm.

Each year The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies. The program is located in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, home to art galleries, independent restaurants and shops, and creative professionals. Studios are near public parks, the city waterfront, and many forms of transit.

High-ceiling artist studios are accessible 24/7 and include freight and passenger elevator access.

The 2026–2027 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program residency period will last from September 2026 through August 2027, with an open studios weekend planned for Spring 2027.

The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program has provided working studio space and community for artists since 1991. Artists are selected annually based on merit from a competitive pool of applicants by a professional jury comprising artists and members of the Artists Advisory Committee.

Learn more and start preparing your application at www.thestudioprogram.com

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20 Jay Street, Ste 720
Brooklyn, NY
11201

Telephone

(718) 858-2244

Website

http://www.thestudioprogram.com/

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