Mission
Operating with a strong sense of local purpose, FD13 residency for the arts invites interdisciplinary artists to take up residence in the Twin Cities, create new work and present it live. We aim to promote an international network of artistic exchanges in Minnesota, to further intercultural understanding, and stimulate the creative development of artists.
Program
FD13 residency for the arts provides dedicated time, space and support to artists from around the world, often for a period of one to four weeks, leading up to a live event. These artists are selected by the Director and Board of Directors and through an international nomination process to ensure the quality and the commitment of new and challenging contemporary work. Through the summer of 2016, the fellows were hosted in a 19th century firehouse converted into a studio and residence, which lends the residency its’ name: FD13 for Fire Department 13. Beginning in fall 2016, the fellows were hosted in a guest house in Northeast Minneapolis provided by Cameron Gainer, artist and Editor in Cheif of The Third Rail.
The residency offers living and working space, technical and creative support needed to protoype new ideas. Residents are able to showcase their work in unique ways through partnerships with collaborating venues and public spaces across the Twin Cities.
Engagement with local audiences, artists, researchers and students is encouraged both formally and informally during the time of the residency. Activities such as talks, publications, screenings and workshops can all be supported in addition to the live event that brings each residency to a close.
FD13 is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization registered in the State of Minnesota.
FD13 is W.A.G.E. certified. We join Artists Space in providing a guaranteed minimum income to the artists they work with, paid in accordance with W.A.G.E. Certification’s compensation standards and guidelines.Founded in 2008, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is a New York-based activist group whose advocacy is currently focused on regulating the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions and establishing a sustainable model for best practices between artists and the institutions that contract their labor.
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The FD13 Team
Sara Cluggish, Board Member
Sara is the Mary Hulings Rice Director and Curator of the Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Prior to this, she was the Director of FD13 from 2018 – 2020 and taught Art History at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Additionally, she has worked as a Curator at Site Gallery in Sheffield and Assistant Curator at Nottingham Contemporary. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths University and BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her research interests lie at the intersection of performance and moving image scholarship, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality studies.
Jeremiah Collatz, Treasurer of the Board
Jeremy Collatz is an architectural designer and art collector based in Minneapolis. He holds a BA in theater and art history from Northwestern University and a Master of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been involved in various capacities with arts organizations including The Art Institute of Chicago; The Renaissance Society; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Arts Club, Chicago; Midway Contemporary Art, and The Walker Art Center, among others.
Bruno Freeman, Chair of the Board and Artist Liaison
Bruno is an independent art consultant specializing in the work of early career artists. He studied at Sarah Lawrence College and Maryland Institute College of Art and holds a BA in Art History from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Recently, he completed a MACA, Masters of Art in Contemporary Art, at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. He has worked at numerous art fairs in New York and Europe, and was a curatorial assistant at the alternative Mexican Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. In addition to assisting his clients, he is an active fundraiser for a private hospital and is a member of the Collectors Council and Patrons Circle at the Walker Art Center. Bruno is an ardent supporter of community-based art and artists in the Twin Cities and elsewhere.
Sarah Petersen, Board Member
Sarah Petersen’s interdisciplinary practice includes performative, structural, sonic and textual interventions and the production of signs and signals that others use to reconsider and intervene in social space. Trained in various embodiment and dance practices, she also collaborates regularly with numerous artists and choreographers on the production of their live works. Her work has recently been hosted by Flux Factory in Queens, NYC; in Los Angeles by ltd los angeles, Honor Fraser Gallery, The Hospital, the L.A. Art Book Fair, Perform Chinatown, Paramount Ranch Art Fair, and Venice 6114; in Copenhagen by Vermilion Sands; and in Minneapolis at The Soap Factory and Northern Spark art festival. She is adjunct faculty at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design since 2014, a resident fellow in Sustainability at Hamline University, and a graduate of California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 2012).
Sandra Teitge, Board Member and FD13 Founder
Sandra Teitge is a Berlin-based curator, cultural researcher, and occasional writer born and raised in East Berlin/Germany. She is currently working as Curator and Head of Public Programs at CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts, a new institution dedicated to supporting, producing, exhibiting, and furthering discourse on contemporary artistic practices, which opened in February 2022. In 2018/19, Sandra was director of the Goethe Pop Up Minneapolis Goethe in the Skyways. Recent curatorial projects include an investigation into Gossip in Berlin’s urban space; a podcast for the ifa-Galerie Berlin; the exhibition and program Wild Frictions. The Politics and Poetics of Interruption at the CAC Cincinnati and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Berlin; New Nature Vitrines, a film program for vitrines in Berlin, Montreal and New York; and Quarantine Choir, a series of audio performances. In 2013, she co-curated (with Joanna Warsza) the Pavilion of Georgia at the 55th Biennale di Venezia and worked in the artistic office of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art prior to that.
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Emeritus
Olga Dekalo
Dekalo is Assistant Curator at Katonah Museum of Art. She was a Curatorial/Publications Associate at PARTICIPANT INC (NYC) and is a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Her recent curatorial projects include: To Look Is To Labor with Harun Farocki, Lucy Raven, and Andrew Norman Wilson; Flip the Script, a performance and installation with Vanessa Anspaugh, Lindsay Clark, Lydia Okrent, Mary Read, and JD Samson; November 1, 1993 (The Morning After) with Glen Fogel. She has collaborated with artists Liam Gillick, Sarah Pierce, Antonis Pittas, Emily Roysdon among others. She is currently working on a performance program that takes up horizontality as a framework for choreography.
Anaïs Nony
A native of France, Anaïs Nony is a scholar working in the field of philosophy, critical media, and performance. She holds a B.A. and a M.A. in Arts, Theater, and Modern Society from the New Sorbonne University in Paris. Her research residencies include NYU and Cornell University. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in French and moving image studies at the University of Minnesota. Anaïs Nony collaborated as an author with several journals in France, Italy, Belgium, and the U.S. She is the co-founder of the international collective Noötechnics and has been studying with philosopher Bernard Stiegler for several years.
Erin Somerville
Somerville is Deputy Director of White Columns (NYC) and co-founder and co-director of the exhibition space Cleopatra’s in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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Design: Wiley Hoard