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A SELECTION OF ANONYMOUS COMMENTS FROM THE W.A.G.E. SURVEY: STATISTICS ABOUT THE ECONOMIC EXPERIENCES OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTISTS EXHIBITING IN NON-PROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY BETWEEN 2005 AND 2010 W.A.G.E. SURVEY ANY FORM OF PAYMENT BY ORGANIZATION 577 RESPONDENTS 25.0% 33.3% 33.3% 37.5% 41.5% 41.7% 44.4% 44.4% 45.5% 46.7% 46.7% 50.0% 52.9% 54.5% 55.6% 57.1% 60.0% 62.5% 63.6% 66.7% ANY PAYMENT 7.7% 11.5% 12.5% 14.3% 16.7% 20.0% 20.0% 20.0% 22.7% 80.0% 83.3% 85.7% 87.5% 100% Did you receive any form of payment, compensation or reimbursement for your participation in the exhibition, including the coverage of any expenses? SOME RECEIVED PAYMENT OF FORM ANY FORM OF PAYMENT 577 RESPONDENTS RECEIVED NO RECEIVED FORM OF PAYMENT OF FORM 0.0% 87.5% 77.3% 47.1% 37.5% 92.3% 85.7% 83.3% 75.0% 62.5% 55.6% 55.6% 53.3% 53.3% 45.5% 42.9% 33.3% 20.0% 16.7% 14.3% 12.5% 88.5% 80.0% 80.0% 80.0% 66.7% 66.7% 58.5% 58.3% 54.5% 50.0% 44.4% 40.0% 36.4% EXIT ART ANEXART RHIZOME PERFORMA WHITE BOX NEW MUSEUM MOMENTA ART CREATIVE TIME ARTISTS SPACE SMACK MELLON ART IN GENERAL PARTICIPANT INC NO WHITE COLUMNS OTHER SML - MED YES OTHER LRG - MUS WHITNEY MUSEUM SCULPTURE CENTER DUMBO ARTS CENTER LONGWOOD GALLERY LA MAMA GALLERIA CUE ART FOUNDATION THE DRAWING CENTER CHELSEA ART MUSEUM THE KITCHEN (GALLERY) BRIC ROTUNDA GALLERY QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART PS1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 58.4% 41.6% ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ANY FORM OF PAYMENT BY SOLO EXHIBITION SMALL GROUP LARGE GROUP NUMBER OF ARTISTS IN EXHIBITION 2 - 5 PEOPLE 6 OR MORE 577 RESPONDENTS 52.8% NO 68.6% NO 26.6% NO 73.4% YES 47.2% YES 31.4% YES EXHIBITION EXPENSES EXHIBITION: ARTIST FEE BY SIZE OF ORGANIZATION LARGE ORGANIZATION/ 175 RESPONDENTS MUSEUM SHIPPING ARTIST FEE SMALL TO MEDIUM How much of the cost of shipping/transporting the work ORGANIZATIONS was paid for by the organization? Separate from any shipping, installation or travel expense SOLO coverage, how much was the artist fee or honorarium $5,000 OR MORE 1.6 4.0 144 RESPONDENTS 22.5 $2,000 - 4,999 8.8 NO PAY 12.0 you received? $1,500 - 1,999 3.2 PARTIAL 27.5 $700 - 1,499 7. 2 10.0 TOTALS FULL PAY 50.0 4.0 EXHIBITION: ARTIST FEE BY NUMBER OF ARTISTS $500 - 699 8.8 NO PAY NO PARTIAL FULL PAY SMALL GROUP 175 RESPONDENTS $300 - 499 8.8 12.0 2 - 5 PEOPLE 6.0 NO PAY 31.6 $5,000 OR MORE 4.0 2.3 1.2 3.6 $100 - 299 26.4 10.0 PARTIAL 31.6 13.6 2.4 8.0 $2,000 - 4,999 16.3 FULL PAY 36.8 $25 - 99 10.4 4.5 3.7 LARGE GROUP 34.0 6 OR MORE 2.3 7.3 $0 24.8 NO PAY 33.4 $1,500 - 1,999 10.2 % 9.0 1.2 29.9 22.9 47.2 PARTIAL 15.2 $700 - 1,499 14.3 PERFORMANCE, LECTURE OR FULL PAY 51.5 SCREENING: ARTISTS FEE BY 29.3 20.5 SIZE OF ORGANIZATION 139 RESPONDENTS $500 - 699 14.3 INSTALLATION How much of your installation expenses were covered $300 - 499 8.2 14.6 by the organization? 22.7 $100 - 299 8.2 SOLO $25 - 99 4.0 NO PAY 9.3 6.8 TOTALS 37.2 $5,000 OR MORE 23.1 PARTIAL 36.6 29.0 2.0 $0 20.4 3.0 2.6 FULL PAY 53.5 16.3 $2,000 - 4,999 10.3 1.0 2.6 $1,500 - 1,999 SMALL GROUP $700 - 1,499 NO PAY NO PARTIAL FULL PAY 2 - 5 PEOPLE $500 - 699 4.0 NO PAY 13.9 7. 7 SOLO SMALL GROUP LARGE GROUP $300 - 499 11.0 2 - 5 PEOPLE 6 OR MORE PARTIAL 36.1 15.4 $100 - 299 16.0 FULL PAY 50.0 10.3 $25 - 99 8.0 149 RESPONDENTS LARGE GROUP 7. 7 6 OR MORE NO PAY 18.6 $0 26.0 20.5 14.8 35.6 49.6 % PARTIAL 34.3 FULL PAY 47.2 PERFORMANCE, LECTURE, OR SCREENING EXPENSES How much of the material expenses you incurred to If you traveled to New York City from out of town, TRAVEL construct the performance, such as props, sets, or how much of your travel expenses were covered? If you traveled to New York City from out of costumes were covered? town, how much of your travel expenses were SOLO PERFORMANCE: EXPENSES PERFORMANCE, LECTURE OR SCREENING: NO PAY 40.0 covered? TRAVEL EXPENSES PARTIAL 15.0 FULL PAY 45.0 TOTALS TOTALS TOTALS SMALL GROUP PARTIAL FULL PAY NO PAY NO 2 - 5 PEOPLE SMALL - MED NO PAY ALLPARTIAL PAY FULL NO PAY NO PARTIAL FULL PAY SMALL - MED NO PAY 55.6 NO PAY 18.2 NO PAY 34.6 PARTIAL 22.2 PARTIAL 40.9 PARTIAL 19.2 FULL PAY 22.2 FULL PAY 40.9 FULL PAY 46.2 LARGE GROUP 6 OR MORE 30 RESPONDENTS LARGE LARGE NO PAY 43.8 NO PAY 50.0 NO PAY 50.0 % 54 RESPONDENTS PARTIAL 40.0 37.5 26.7 33.3 46.3 24.1 29.6 38.2 PARTIAL 37.5 20.6 41.7 PARTIAL 25.0 FULL PAY 18.8 34 RESPONDENTS FULL PAY 12.5 FULL PAY 25.0 SMALL TO MEDIUM NON-PROFIT Momenta Art Abron Arts Center, Figment Festival Nurture Art Cooper-Hewitt COST OF ARTS ORGANIZATION Museum of Contemporary African Henry Street Settlement Five Myles Painting Center Dia Art Foundation (NYC) RENTING A STUDIO AGE GENDER (OPTIONS GIVEN IN SURVEY) Diasporan Arts AC Institute Flux Factory Parker’s Box El Museo del Barrio Apexart Museum of Sex AICH Gallery Grace Exhibition Space Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church Guggenheim Museum Art in General New Century Artists AIR Gallery Harvestworks Printed Matter International Center of Photography 19 - 25 8.7 Artists Space Noguchi Museum American Indian Community Haven Arts Recess Jewish Museum 1,000 - 2,999 13.1 Asian American Arts Centre P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center House Gallery Henry Street Center Roulette Intermedium Metropolitan Museum of Art 26 - 30 17.4 MALE 59.9 Austrian Cultural Forum Participant Inc Art Directors Club HERE Arts Center Secret Project Robot Museum for African Art 3,000 - 4,999 12.8 Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Performa Art for Change Hudson Guild Showpaper Gallery Museum of Arts & Design Skylight Gallery Public Art Fund Fountainhead Gallery Humanities Gallery, Staten Island Museum Museum of the City of New York 5,000 - 7,999 10.1 BRIC Rotunda Gallery Queens Museum of Art (artist run, defunct) Long Island University Superfront BK Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art FEMALE 38.1 Chelsea Art Museum Rhizome BAC Hunter College Times Square Galleries Surreal Estate Museum of Modern Art 8,000 - 11,999 7.8 31 - 40 42.9 Creative Time Sculpture Center Biko Transformation Center Invisible Dog Arts Center The Americas Society Museum of the Moving Image 12,000 - 19,999 6.7 CUE art foundation Smack Mellon Black and White Project Space Issue Project Room The Field New Museum TRANS 2.0 Diapason Gallery for Sound Socrates Sculpture Park Brecht Forum James Gallery at CUNY The Stone New York Public Library 20,000 - 39,999 3.1 and Intermedia Swiss Institute Bridge Jane Hartsook Gallery The Work Office P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center 40,000 OR MORE 0.7 DUMBO Arts Center The Drawing Center Bronx River Art Center Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning Time IN / Hi Art! Gallery Queens Museum of Art 41 - 50 17.9 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts The Kitchen (gallery only) BAM Le Petit Versailles Visual Aids Rubin Museum of Art Exit Art White Box Brooklyn Arts Council Live With Animals Art Space Wave Hill Studio Museum in Harlem I DON’T RENT A Fisher Landau Center White Columns Cabinet Long Island City Artists, Inc. X Initiative Whitney Museum of American Art 51 - 60 8.5 STUDIO OUTSIDE 45.8 Goethe Institut / Ludlow 38 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center Center for Book Arts LOUIS V.E.S.P 61 + 4.6 Humble Arts Foundation Chashama Lower East Side Printshop LARGE NON-PROFIT ARTS OTHER LARGE NON-PROFIT ARTS OF MY RESIDENCE International Center of Photography OTHER SMALL TO MEDIUM Conflux Festival 2009 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ORGANIZATIONS AND MUSEUMS ORGANIZATIONS AND MUSEUMS International Print Center New York NON-PROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATION Coño Gallery Lumenhouse Gallery (OPTIONS GIVEN IN SURVEY) (GIVEN BY RESPONDENTS) Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (GIVEN BY RESPONDENTS) Danspace Project Manhattan Open Center American Folk Art Museum American Museum of Natural History Japan Society 25CPW Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program New York Artist Residency & Asia Society and Museum Public Theater La Mama La Galleria A Gathering of the Tribes Emily Harvey Foundation Studios Foundation (NARS) Brooklyn Museum of Art Tenement Museum Location One Abrazo Interno Gallery Eyebeam Art & Technology Center Norte Maar Bronx Museum of the Arts Watermill Center Longwood Gallery Working Artist and the Greater Economy © 2012 wageforwork.com common space (d).