In Episode 7 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath chats with Will Hutnick, an artist, curator, and Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project in Upstate NY. The Wassaic Project is widely known, especially with artists around NYC, for being a residency that cultivates a great artist community. Will shares how he promotes artist centric projects while maintaining healthy boundaries in his personal and professional life. Will also shares why residencies are significant in the arts and how to successfully apply to them.

Hutnick is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting, as well as a 2017 Martha Boschen Porter fund grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and his B.A. from Providence College (Providence, RI). Recent exhibitions include: 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Sugarlift (New York, NY), Satellite Art Club (Brooklyn), Craven Contemporary (Kent, CT), Collar Works (Troy, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT, solo) and One River School (Hartsdale, NY, solo). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, DNA Artist Residency, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center and a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and Trestle Projects. He has curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute, Wassaic Project and Standard Space. From 2015-20, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.

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