Upstate Update #11
Woodstock Film Festival, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, and more
Hey team,
Happy Friday, happy false spring, and happy end of the world!
This week we’re fending off the cold with jobs from Woodstock Film Festival, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Also the headers have been updated. Please clap!
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Job listings are only shared if they contain salary information. We prioritize orgs, companies, and individuals committed to anti-racism, anti-xenophobia, disability justice, immigrant rights, and LGBTQ+ and gender equity.
Communications Manager
Where: Woodstock Film Festival is an organization that nurtures and supports emerging and established filmmakers.
Location: Woodstock, NY
Pay: $40,000 (FT)
Wedding and Event Assistant
Where: The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation provides safe and enjoyable recreational and interpretive opportunities and stewards New York’s valuable natural, historic and cultural resources.
Location: Germantown, NY
Pay: $17.98/hr (PT)
Marketing Manager
Where: The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall is world-renowned for its incredible acoustics, and has hosted performances by legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lake Street Dive.
Location: Troy, NY
Pay: $50–65,000/yr (FT)
Associate Digital Editor
Where: Since 1972, Hudson Valley Magazine has been the authority on the people, places, and activities that define the beautiful and ever-evolving Hudson Valley region.
Location: Fishkill, NY
Pay: $36,000/yr (FT)
Museum Store Coordinator; Visitor Services Attendant
Where: Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky.
Location: New Windsor, NY
Pay: $19.71/hr (FT); $15.50/hr (PT, seasonal)
Development Associate; Grants and Foundations Coordinator
Where: Woodstock Farm Sanctuary rescues farmed animals and gives them care, connects animals with people to advance veganism, and advocates for animal rights.
Location: Woodstock, NY
Pay: $20/hr (FT); $22/hr (FT)
Theatrical Costume Craftsperson
Where: Three Bay Barn creates specialty costumes and props for Broadway shows, regional theater, arena entertainment, operas and dance companies nationwide.
Location: Clintondale, NY
Pay: $16–20/hr (FT)
Social Media Marketing Assistant; Farmer’s Market Event Staff
Where: Albany Distilling Company is a small craft distillery that uses modern and traditional methods to produce spirits of exceptional quality one small batch at a time.
Location: Albany, NY
Pay: $15/hr (PT); $15/hr (PT)
Curator
Where: Indiewalls is a platform that makes it easy to find the right art for any project. For designers, interior decorators and business owners.
Location: Remote
Pay: $55–70,000/yr (FT)
Studio Internship; Non-Profit Management Internship
Where: Women’s Studio Workshop envisions a society where women’s visual art is integral to the cultural mainstream and permanently recorded in history.
Location: Rosendale, NY
Pay: $600/mo + housing (FT)
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1BR Historic District Apartment with Backyard
Rent: $1,500/mo
Location: Newburgh, NY
Info: This unit is one of three in a just-completed renovation in the center of Newburgh's East End historic district. Lots of light and good privacy. All new finishes and fixtures, plus high efficiency radiant heated floors throughout. Common laundry, rear yard, outdoor kitchen in the summer (spring garden & tree plans!). Centrally located in town - equidistant & easily walkable to the Liberty Street core to the south, Downing Park to the west, and the river to the east.
Contact: Zach Blaue (property owner) via Zillow
2BR Bucolic Country Home
Rent: $2,500/mo
Location: Germantown, NY
Info: Completely renovated home with decorative wood stove, window unit AC's, washer and dryer, sit-in screened porch, living room, large bonus room (great for an office or extra walk-in closet, and 1-car garage. Located less than 5 minutes by car from the heart of vibrant Germantown.
Contact: Craigslist
1BR Hudson Home with Sunroom
Rent: $1,200/mo
Location: Hudson, NY
Info: Spacious, recently renovated apartment with an abundance of natural light and gorgeous original hardwood flooring. An attached sunroom runs the length of the unit–perfect for an indoor/outdoor dining room or home office. Conveniently located one block from Upper Warren St, Hudson is at your doorstep.
Contact: Eric Grim via Zillow
3BR Renovated Barn-Turned-Tenant Community Space
Rent: $2,200/mo
Location: Hudson, NY
Info: This restored and renovated 100 year-old barn has been reimagined as a tenant community, and features a creative space located in the back of the property for ideation, meditation, yoga, and more. Located two blocks from Warren Street and next door to the beautiful Hudson Public Library.
Contact: Rob Harvey, (917) 877-0508
2BR Brownstone
Rent: $1,900/mo
Location: Troy, NY
Info: Bay room entry room, hardwood floors throughout, 2 fireplaces, a large living room with Mitsubishi A/C, two bedrooms (master fits a King, guest a full-size bed), dining room with bay windows, large eat-in kitchen with pantry and dishwasher, studio/office, and private laundry space off kitchen. Owner occupied. Includes heat and hot water. Dogs, cats, and birds welcome.
Contact: Jackie Kello, 516-447-4229
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Office/Art Studio
Rent: $495/mo
Location: Warwick, NY
Info: Private studio/office with door and windows available in shared 2nd floor loft. Great light, Beautiful sunsets, and on the Wawayanda Creek. This quiet workspace is a perfect place to grow your business and creative endeavor. Perks include: wifi, electricity, heat & A/C, and kitchenette.
Contact: Craigslist
Hudson Office Space
Rent: $650–700/mo
Location: Hudson, NY
Info: Hot off the press: Hudson Catskill Housing is offering affordable office space to other BIPOC organizations and local allies, in hopes of sharing space, radically organizing together, and work in partnership to advance all of our missions.
Contact: DM @hudsoncatskillhousing or email hchc@hudsoncatskillhousing.org
Large Shared Potters Studio
Rent: Not listed
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Info: Fully equipped and working potters studio looking for a fellow potter to share the studio with. The studio is 1/2 a block from Vassar College and is fully equipped with a skutt klin, slab roller, extruder, spray painting area, clay working tools, and much more equipment. My wife and I work in the studio daily.
Contact: Shawn, 845-483-1308
This section highlights residencies, funding, classes, exhibition calls, and more. We prioritize free, low cost, or subsidized opportunities.
NEW! Summer Arts BIPOC Residency at Alfred University provides artists with opportunities to dive deeply into their artistic research and practice, and creative endeavors. Artists receive up to $2,000 to cover travel, meals. or supplies; plus complimentary housing.
Deadline: March 1, 2022NEW! Creative Capital’s Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact Grant provides direct project funding in varying amounts up to $50,000, advisory services, and a community of fellow awardees and other professionals who may provide additional support for the project. Deadline: April 1, 2022
NEW! Soul FIRE Immersion (Farming In Relationship to Earth) is designed for aspiring, beginning, and intermediate growers of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx heritage to gain basic skills in regenerative farming in a culturally relevant, supportive, and joyful environment. Sliding scale fee of $150–$1500. Priority Deadline: April 1, 2022; Deadline: April 15, 2022
NEW! Applications are now open for the Arts Letters & Numbers 2022 Residency. A warm Victorian home, a big white barn and a textile mill turned studio space await your creative practice. Surrounded by woods, hiking, and lakes, the Residency is designed to provide creative opportunities while developing meaningful relationships. Residency fees range from $250–350/wk, but full and partial scholarships are available. Deadline: Rolling
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Residents receive a stipend and artist fees up to $1,500, and non-local residents will also be offered funds for accommodations and are eligible to receive support to cover costs of travel to and from Buffalo, NY. Deadline: March 8, 2022
Research Publication Residency Grant at Women’s Studio Workshop
Deadline: March 1, 2022Core Residency and Steepletop Residency at Millay Arts
Deadline: March 1, 20222022 Artist in Residence at Shandaken: Storm King
Deadline: March 7, 2022Artist-in-Residence Program at SUNY Oswego
Deadline: March 13, 2022.Statewide Community Regrant Program from Arts Mid-Hudson
Deadline: March 14th, 2022Artists in Residence program (AIR) at Munson-Williams and PrattMWP
Deadline: March 22, 2022Artist Employment Program and Guaranteed Income for Artists from Creatives Rebuild New York - Deadline: March 25, 2022.
Media Arts Assistance Fund from NYSCA and Wave Farm
Deadline: July 1, 2022