Past Swing Space Artists
Swing Space is an innovative partnership that matches vacant real estate from landlords in Lower Manhattan with artists and arts groups on a project basis. The program, which was piloted under the Downtown Cultural Grants Initiative, supplies artists with space for studios, rehearsals, installations, exhibitions, public programs, performance, and for short-term administrative purposes. From 2005-2008 grantees were given stipends ranging from $500 to $3,000 to support their projects.
In its first four years, the program brought together 185 artist projects with over 192,000 square feet of vacant real estate in Lower Manhattan, with donations valued at over $4.5 million from Capstone Equities, Collegiate Properties, General Growth Properties, JP Morgan Chase, Rudin Management, the Sapir Organization, Silverstein Properties, Trinity Properties, and Time Equities. Emerging artists as well as some of the city’s most established artists have applied for and received space, confirming the critical need for this resource, which has become an established and ongoing program.
