Carla Baudrons, Art Office GM

Art Office is a virtual co-working program for artists, founded by Carla Baudrons. PS1 collaborated with Carla to produce to the beta test of Art Office during the month of May 2020.

Teams consisting of five artists work [remotely] on their own personal creative projects for a period lasting one month. This timeframe is to give artists a taste of Art Office, without having to sign up for anything long-term.

At the end of the period, they presented their work in Public Space One’s virtual gallery and via a livestreamed artist talk (watch here).

All participants will attend regular Zoom meetings to present goals, milestones, and accomplishments, as well as to celebrate holidays and birthdays. Every Wednesday from 12-2PM, member artists are invited to open their studios to the public, to socialize, work silently, answer questions, or a combination of the three. The public can track members’ progress on social media by following the hashtag #ps1artoffice.

Everyone will be required to log their daily activities and fill out weekly time cards.

Members will take two mandatory calisthenics breaks every workday.

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Carla’s role as the GM is to keep up the facade! This will include, but probably not be limited to:

• Training new hires,
• Reviewing members’ progress,
• Keeping staff on task,
• Leading Zoom office meetings,
• Distributing “fake” checks, and
• Awarding merit badges.