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>> I negotiated aggressively for a Island City and participated in a being considered for exhibition at >> They damaged my equipment, did person because there was a loud A selection of $150 screening fee which still has panel discussion. I wasn’t paid to the MOMA and internationally. not want to package the work for me concert in the courtyard. They not been paid. Was not invited to be in the show, but I did receive a even though I was out of the country wouldn’t accept artist passes or exhibition opening for VIPs and not hundred dollars or so for serving on >> Please develop a nation-wide when deinstallation happened, and MoMA member discount prices. On the anonymous sent a catalog. the panel. survey. Folks in the outlands are ultimately didn’t return the entire second weekend I found out that they getting screwed, too! thing, i.e. a part was missing. had scheduled another performance at >> I performed at X-Initiative >> If we ask for payment, they won’t the same start time as me, and none comments from for Performa 09 and received ZERO exhibit us at all. Unfortunately >> Position of artists in this >> this was a collaborative show, of them were being paid either. funding from either organization. some suppose ‘non-profit’ galleries, society is not a happy one..other the artist fee was 10% of the the W.A.G.E. survey: However, I raised $8000 myself and e.g. White Box, are asking payment cultures respect art & artists.. overall project budget, and that was >> I wish my rent was lower and I was awarded a $900 emergency grant. from artists to be exhibited! this culture reveres money! divided between the collaborating did not have to pay so much rent. artists. >> I recently moved from London >> In between the hustle of trying >> PS1 is a disaster for artists >> I’m a veteran of scores of >> Artists deserve a fee, not just to NYC but the problem is the same to get paid any way I can, I am >> This was a commission from shows around the country “publicity.” there, (and all over). Artists don’t looking for new ways to get paid for >> re-inbursement for expenses the Jerome Foundation that was and haven’t received payment from seem to get paid for their work so I being an artist. certainly would be a re-freshing administered through Roulette a museum for participating in an >> As an artist I incurred all would like to support W.A.G.E. experience, artists are not treated Intermedium. They are an excellent exhibition since 1987, In fact, costs for travel, production, >> Indeed we need to change this. with respect unless they are organization and are really good most of the who’ve acquired installation, shipping-etc. At the >> I screened a film and spoke on represented by a heavy-duty gallery. with the artist fees thing even if my work in the past 25 years have time of the exhibition project the a panel the same evening. I was >> It is quite astonishing to be it’s not a commission and just a demanded it be donated for free or organization (Creative Time) raised pleasantly surprised when Apex actually faced with the fact that >> Receiving installation funds was one-off performance. for a cost that doesn’t even cover 1 million dollars by fund-raising handed me a check. Their attitude barely any of my labors as an artist not a given, and only took place the cost of materials. The year the but still did not pay artist fees was that supporting artists, at are recompensed. I support my studio after I refused to install without >> We successfully argued to receive Jewish museum purchased my work, two least in that context, was normal practice through teaching (which support. $200 for payment of a group of 4 other NYC museums acquired work by >> Every non-profit space I’ve for them. I told them I wished it I also consider to be a part of my performers who were doing a 2.5 hour me and from the three acquisitions, worked with in the past five years was normal for everyone else. studio practice) but still, the >> so much great media exposure improv performance @ the museum. I received enough money to cover the has been really wonderful and I have realization of how undervalued I am materials cost for one piece. received some form of honorarium. >> i spent money and time on the as an artist is profound! >> Spent several thousand dollars >> We were expected to ship our Much more humane than commercial de-installation of the previous show on the exhibition. own work and pay for it. when >> Many thanks to NMAI, what a spaces. The Kitchen is the best. THE at white box, the installation of >> Just to clarify, there was a flat they returned my work it had been wonderful institution and gem of New BEST. PS1 (solo too) is on the worse the show i participated in, my show fee to cover all expenses, including >> The curators never returned my badly wrapped and 3 glass mirrors York City!!! side. NYSCA is great for requiring (materials, time, etc.), and the de- an artist’s fee. However, the work! were broken, because they had not these venues to pay a fee. install of my show. expenses were more than the fee, and been padded, but bundled touching >> PS1 did not give me any money there was consequently no artists’ >> The director at the time said I each other. when I called to get but they did offer me space to make >> FREE means useless for society, >> I think there should be a fee. This was not from going over would be reimbursed for up to $200 compensation I was offered a verbal my work for a month. It was a huge and we’re not. detailed question about the ratio budget. The project was on budget, of my installation costs, after apology and nothing more, even studio with tons of sunlight and I of honorarium to size of project but only a small fee was available. repeated requests were ignored, i though the problem occurred clearly had access from 9 -5pm everyday. >> I actually received $23.50, I and also ratio of installation/ gave up. from mindless packing of the work. That was generous I think. believe. This was a symbolic wage production to size of project or >> Maybe you can work on getting although I got a catalogue, I lost based on the amount that artists what the artist ended up paying to artists paid for commercial work >> the fee did not cover all of my $700 in damages and paid $160 in >> super! fantastic... Go on like were paid by the WPA for a week exhibit/produce. Otherwise it seems also? It is all a scam creativity materials. it also did not cover shipping. this! And yes, we can! of work under the Federal Project that Sculpture Center’s $100 fee or for free. work i had to do to the space before Number One program during the 1930s. minimal help w/ exhibition costs it was ready to use. >> what kind of survey is this? i >> The museum did not pay my seems fair when really my work was >> My expenses were covered because can’t imagine what can be gained production expenses or offer >> I didn’t receive any payment for large and labor intensive. I conceptualized the performance >> The group was mixed USA and Dutch by this limited information, compensation. I was put into a participation and in addition, the so that its costs would not be artists. A show was the curator’s except to find out how widely your position where I had to sell my work was damaged during the opening >> I was designing and building a more than the honorarium. Given initiative. We had to pay 6,000 for email was circulated... in terms piece (a performance) to receive due to little to no invigilation set for a performance, a one day more money the work might have one month exhibition space and (very of the last Q--what constitutes any sort of payment. I did not want on behave of the institution and event with many artists and curators been a little different. The piece little) technical support. “participate”? if an institution to sell the work, but couldn’t see its curators. The institution, and writers involved, for two weeks also referenced this condition. owns and artists work, does anyway around it. Money was never although, feeling terribly guilty, of work i got $100 Basically it was an audition for >> The honorarium I received was this qualify as participate, and discussed beforehand, and the didn’t offer compensation for the a work that could have taken place much too low does the purchase of the work curator was very elusive when the damaged work until I emailed them a >> I was not compensated in any in the given framework. I felt that constitute reimbursement? what subject came up. series of stern emails expressing my way for my exhibition, nor did I the $300 the museum offered was >> The museum wanted a piece from if a sale occurred as a result of disappointment and reminding them of have any assistance installing, only enough to pay for an audition, me and continuously pleaded with me the exhibition? you should hire >> The is a Great Place the obligations institutions have to de-installing or documenting my definitely not a finished piece. for a piece but they were unwilling a pollster if you make another for fictional rebellion much love the artists they use to gain funding piece... sad to say. to pay a single cent for the work, survey... from fuck you. Ps I mean it. and etc. >> My money was a commission fee claiming poverty. They had just >> I was promised a stipend of for the performance. It was a dance spent many millions putting up a new >> Artists should get stipends >> There were additional expenses >> I enjoyed showing at CUE but $200, but never received it. When performance and the commission building for the collection. They to defray costs. Also, Governor’s that the Museum paid for, not their preparator staff has been I followed up about payment, I was fee covered less than half of the continued to call me for over a year Island arts events are a public covered in your survey. These significantly reduced in the past ignored. expenses. and I finally relented when they said entertainment. The city should be included the restoration and few years and I had little help they would make my piece the center giving compensation. preservation of two films, the blow installing and no help deinstalling. >> I’ve also exhibited at the Queens >> Performa only provides financial piece of part of the collection with up of a Super 8mm film to 16 mm, the Museum of Art, BAM, Governor’s support to approx 6 artists within a a permanent place in the entry to >> but they bought the work and purchase of several films for the >> I had different experiences at Island and Galapagos and didn’t festival that includes hundreds. the museum. They gave me nothing for they paid for framing. i call that museum collection. These alone would different institutions. 500 dollars receive any kind of compensation. the piece or for exhibiting in a big compensation. total more than another $5000. is the most I have been paid for a >> Please consider including important exhibition. live performance and I had to use >> I’ve exhibited twice at Wave this information: I have earned >> i asked for the assistance of >> this was for a show at altria, that money to pay my musicians. So Hill. The first time was in 2006 a master’s degree in Landscape >> The Spring show at Socrates 7 people to install the show i was the installation i did cost about in the end I did not earn anything. for the show Garden Improvement. Architecture and am working in also included using their outdoor participating in. neither i or any $2500- $3000 cant remember exactly The second time was a year or two Brooklyn as an unpaid intern for facilities to produce the work and of the people working with me were but i did get $1500 from them >> I have had work in many shows later for the show called Ornamental a non-profit Architecture group. My technical assistance, project budget paid for any work. that there was no pay for at all. Instincts. I received a $1500 living expenses are around $1200/ and artist honorarium. This was the >> the work was already in the honorarium of Garden Improvement and mo to be here to do this work. I first time as an artist that I felt >> I found out only about 7 days collection, why would i get paid? >> The the overall honorarium I $750 for Ornamental Instincts. The work collaboratively on submissions supported by an institution. before my shows (two performance/ received was considered to cover only other time I received any kind to architecture competitions with screenings over two weekends) that my per diem, installation fee, and of payment for showing at a nonprofit other unpaid interns who are also >> The Swiss Institute was a I would not be paid. I had to bring lecture fee. was when I was in a show at Dorsky educated with master’s degrees in pleasure to work with. my own equipment. On one of the Gallery Curatorial Projects in Long architecture. The groups work is afternoons the museum charged $15/ STATISTICS ABOUT THE ECONOMIC EXPERIENCES OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTISTS EXHIBITING IN NON-PROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN 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? RECEIVED SOME FORM OF PAYMENT

ANY FORM OF PAYMENT 577 RESPONDENTS RECEIVED NO FORM OF PAYMENT 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 LA GALLERIA CUE ART FOUNDATION THE THE KITCHEN (GALLERY) BRIC ROTUNDA GALLERY QUEENS MUSEUM OF 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 PAY FULL 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 PAY FULL 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 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 PAY FULL NO PAY NO 2 - 5 PEOPLE SMALL - MED PAY NO ALLPARTIAL PAY FULL

NO PAY NO PARTIAL PAY FULL 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 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 Exit Art White Box Brooklyn Arts Council Live With Animals Art Space Wave Hill 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 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 Museum of Natural History Japan Society 25CPW Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program New York Artist Residency & 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)