​A digital background with the Squeaky Wheel logo and the text: Call for applications. Workspace Residency, Spring 2026. Applications open September 1, 2025 Deadline Friday, October 3, 2025

​A digital background with the Squeaky Wheel logo and the text: Open to filmmakers, artists, curators, scholars, among others working in media arts, Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency provides time, support, and equipment access for new or in-progress projects. We aim to support our residents’ careers and continue our relationships after the residency has concluded. Former residents have been invited to present exhibitions, performances, screenings, among other activities.

​A digital background with the Squeaky Wheel logo and the text: The two-week Spring 2026 session offers residents with equipment access, up to $1300 in stipends and artist fees, accommodations, $400 in travel support, and optional financial assistance for child-care and/or disability support.

​A digital background with the Squeaky Wheel logo and the text: Info-sessions: Online: Tuesday, September 2, 12 pm ET. The session will be recorded and uploaded online. In-person at Squeaky Wheel: Saturday, September 6, 2 pm. On our website, you can also book a 20 minute virtual feedback meeting with Curator Ekrem Serdar.

We will soon be accepting applications for the Spring 2026 session of our Workspace Residency! Learn more at the link to learn more, and get your applications ready: squeaky.org/workspace-residency

Workspace Residency is supported in part by Teiger Foundation.

A digital background with white text: Regarding the NEA cancellations We were able to complete the entirety of our last NEA grant - dedicated to our Workspace Residency - ahead of the recent NEA cancellations. If the NEA and NEH remain as they are, we are looking at an annual shortfall of 40-70k that will directly affect our programs: and through them, artists, staff, teachers, students, contractors, partners, and the eco-system that makes our programs possible. We encourage our followers to reach out to your representatives and advocate for the arts.

A digital background with white text: The future may look challenging, but with our community, we shine: We encourage creative, critical, courageous work, as we have through our 40 years. Media literacy is vital and needed, now and always.

A digital background with white text and a small image of a tote bag with Squeaky Wheel's logo on the bottom: This news arrived as we were launching our membership drive and we want to tell you: Join us*. Rent our gear. Learn new software. Make new work. Experience art that you won’t see anywhere else. Get involved. Your work is needed: now and always. *And get a free Squeaky tote if you sign up at the $40 level by June 11.

Regarding the recent NEA cancellations. Our (pre-planned) membership drive is on through June 11th. Join us: squeaky.org/membership

Photographs of Carolina Ebeid and Joe Hall side by side. Carolina is holding a peacock feather in front of her left eye. Joe Hall is looking at some papers, standing in front of a microphone. Underneath their photographs is Squeaky Wheel's logo and the text: "Carolina Ebeid and Joe Hall. Saturday, April 5, 7 pm | Poetry reading. co-sponsored by the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo. presented as part of The Image in its Absence"

Next Saturday, April 5: Join us for a reading by Carolina Ebeid and Joe Hall as part of the public programs of our exhibition, The Image in its Absence. Learn more and sign up here: squeaky.org/event/caroli...

The exhibition is supported by Teiger Foundation . Carolina Ebeid’s visit to Buffalo is co-sponsored by the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo.

On our website, you can sign up now for the the public programs taking place during the exhibitions duration, including a reading with Carolina Ebeid and Joe Hall, and a screening of films by Assia Djebar, Inas Halabi, Onyeka Igwe, and Tiffany Sia. squeaky.org/event/the-im...

Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Friday for the opening of The Image in its Absence, featuring work by Azza El-Hassan, Carolina Ebeid, Crystal Z Campbell, and Noor Abuarafeh. The exhibition is now on view through May 30, with extended hours on Wednesdays until 7 pm.

The exhibition includes contemplative essay films, speculative video, poetry, and more, featuring work by Azza El-Hassan, Carolina Ebeid, Crystal Z Campbell, and Noor Abuarafeh, and several public events. The exhibition is supported by Teiger Foundation. Learn more: squeaky.org/event/the-im...

A poster with an image and the words "The Image in its Absence. Exhibition | March 21–May 30, 2025. Azza El-Hassan. Carolina Ebeid. Crystal Z Campbell. Noor Abuarafeh" and Squeaky Wheel's logo. The image is of a stack of artworks in packaing in a store house, with the subtitle "I was searching for missing paintings"

A poster with an image and the words "The Image in its Absence. Exhibition | March 21–May 30, 2025. Azza El-Hassan. Carolina Ebeid. Crystal Z Campbell. Noor Abuarafeh" and Squeaky Wheel's logo. The image is a pink and damaged film strip. A Black person with a mustache is facing the camera with his fists up.

A poster with an image and the words "The Image in its Absence. Exhibition | March 21–May 30, 2025. Azza El-Hassan. Carolina Ebeid. Crystal Z Campbell. Noor Abuarafeh" and Squeaky Wheel's logo. The image is a black and white photograph of a man with a mustache holding a 16mm camera. There is a subtitle on the bottom: "Hani remaind in black and white."

Opening March 21, ​Squeaky Wheel is excited to announce our Spring exhibition, The Image in its Absence. The group exhibition and public events feature work on archives that have been displaced and destroyed, and how communities care for and imagine them in their absence.

The Workspace Residency is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Teiger Foundation . Thank you to our panelists for this session of the residency, Dena Kopolovich, Dorothea Braemer, and Saif Alsaegh.

The photographs of four people in circle shaped frames against a purple backdrop, with Squeaky Wheel's logo and the words "Workspace Residents. Spring 2025." The four people, left to right, top to bottom, are G. Anthony Svatek, Kaija Siirala, Kyla Kegler, and Sue Ding.

We're excited to announce the awardees of the spring 2025 Workspace Residency! This April, we will welcome G. Anthony Svatek & Kaija Siirala (Brooklyn, NY and Hamilton, ON), Kyla Kegler (Buffalo, NY) and Sue Ding (Los Angeles, CA) We can't wait to host them!

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