WINGSPACE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Write to us at wsmentorship@gmail.com with any questions.

MENTEES RECEIVE:

Two dedicated mentors in your field will meet with you monthly to provide ongoing individualized guidance to support your goals. The mentors are working designers who are eager to share their experiences, offer feedback, make introductions, and be a sounding board for your questions about your artistic practice.
The full community of mentors and mentees across all disciplines gather once per month for round-table discussions, to pool our knowledge and demystify a wide range of topics selected collaboratively by the mentors and the mentees. Past topics have included: taxes and financial planning, work/life balance, accessibility in the theater, artistic collaboration, unions and agents.
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As COVID safety protocol evolves and allows, there will be opportunities (such as mixers, and tickets to shows) for the full community of mentors and mentees to hang out!

Are you curious, passionate, and committed to growing your artistic voice? Are you interested in advancing your performing arts career in collaboration with a nurturing community of working designers and directors? Do you struggle with how to navigate or access some areas of the industry, or with breaking through to more enriching projects? We can help!
We are interested in applicants based anywhere in the US. After a global pandemic, we have learned to integrate video conferencing into our meetings. Please note: a majority of the Mentors are based in NYC, and all are working primarily within the United States.
If you've experienced barriers to mentorship and access to a career in the performing arts this program may be right for you. There are many possible reasons you may have been excluded from easy access to a mentor — identity-biases, bigotry, citizenship status, ableism, and elitism all play roles in how the performing arts privileges a narrow subset of artists.
If you have additional questions about the program, please feel free to reach to us at wsmentorship@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!

Mentors are volunteers, who self-identify as mid-career or established performing arts professionals. Most are members of Wingspace.
A spectrum of personal, professional, and educational/training backgrounds and experience are represented in the full cohort of mentors. Co-mentors are paired in an effort to offer each mentee a variety of perspectives.
Wingspace recognizes that it was a predominantly white group when founded. Ever evolving, the mentorship program is actively working to foster a care-driven, anti-racist artist community. We prioritize and value equity and inclusiveness in both the makeup of our mentor group, co-mentor pairs, and the cohort of mentees.
Investing in training is key to our community’s ongoing effort to heal, evolve, and examine internal operations and methods that have caused harm in the past. Mentors are offered anti-racism and facilitation training through Wingspace, and some have experience as educators and community organizers.