Our Artist Residency
Our competitive international program, one of the first of its kind in Colorado, provides artists with the time, space, and support to create new work, explore new mediums, and share their creations with the community. Each Resident Artist's practice and the work produced during their residency address social justice issues, welcoming any creative discipline. During their residency, artists have full access to PlatteForum’s studio space and are required to lead workshops with ArtLab interns and other youth-serving groups, culminating in exhibitions and/or performances in collaboration with the youth.
Our 2024-2025 Residency Application has closed
Meet our Current Resident Artist, Lexy Ho-Tai
Artist, Educator, & Goopey Human | Resident until July 26th
Ho-Tai’s practice is expansive and ever-changing, but often rooted in exploring human connection, otherness, our inner-child and world-building through craft, play, DIY, monsters and collaboration. Recent projects include: creating a collaborative giant textile cuddle monster with 500+ elementary students, building and burning a wearable heartbreak monster, and making her first stop motion animation featuring tiny puppets of her family. She’s currently dreaming of a surrealist All-Ages Kids TV show with puppetry, masking and more (stay tuned!). She’s bad at small talk, convinced that everything is made up, and uses art to explore alternative ways of being in this world.
Lexy’s a core member of eco-theater groups Superhero Clubhouse and Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre. She’s had solo shows at the Museum of Arts and Design and Flux Factory, and has also shown work at the Abrons Art Center, The Highline, and the Museum of Modern Art. Past residencies include Watermill Center, Flux Factory, ARoS Museum, Everglades National Park, Art Farm, Elsewhere Museum, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center and the Museum of Arts and Design, where she was a Van Lier Fellow. Recently, she was a part of the American Craft Council’s Emerging Artist Cohort.
Opening Reception: July 26th at 6pm at our A.I.R. Annex Gallery
About the Resident Artist Program
PlatteForum’s Resident Artist program is one of the first of its kind in Colorado. Our competitive international program provides artists the time, space and support to create new work, explore new mediums, and share their work with the community. Each resident artist’s practice and work created during their residency must address a social justice issue and may be created through any creative discipline.
Resident artists are given full access to PlatteForum’s studio space during their residency. In return they are required to lead workshops with ArtLab interns and other youth-serving groups, culminating in exhibitions and/or performances in collaboration with youth.
Residencies are competitive with over 100 applications received and a total of 4 residencies awarded each season.
“The PlatteForum residency was a platform for me to create a network of people with whom I am sure I will work with, or rely on, again.
I also got engaged with narratives that as an artist, I would like to continue working with, specially the history of the border, the relationship of "gringos" with mexican-americans and the chicanx invisibilized presence in the history of the state.”
— Paloma Ayala, Resident Artist, 2020
“PlatteForum's residency makes dreams come true.
When I arrived for the six to eight week residency, supporting my work was the staff's focus: from helping me brainstorm lesson plans for the youth engagement (I didn't have a lot of experience working with youth, especially 3rd grade), to connecting with the art community of Denver, to finding the only working band saw to cut over 100 plastic water bottles to fit a Lite-Brite wall custom built by their amazing volunteer artist committee team.
It was a luxury to have the support to realize my creative vision.”
— Kate Speer, Resident Artist, 2018
