Software for residencies, studios & galleries.
Open calls, residents, mentors, studio schedules and public programs in one place your organization owns, instead of a patchwork of forms and inboxes.
One home for the whole program
Artist-run spaces and residency programs juggle a lot with a small staff: applications, panels, onboarding, studio time, mentor check-ins, exhibitions and the public. We build a single platform around that cycle, and only the parts you actually need.
What we build
- Open calls and panel review: applications, scoring and decisions in one place, with no forwarding PDFs.
- Resident and mentor apps with their own logins, schedules, check-ins and shared notes.
- Studio and space booking with requests and approvals built in.
- Portfolios that residents control, private by default, public when they choose.
- Public pages for exhibitions, events and markets, with RSVPs and reminders.
- Payments through Stripe when your program needs them, reviewed for security before any real money moves.
- Reporting for funders and boards, from the work your program already does.
From artists, for artists
Unusual Assembly's founder has spent more than ten years as an independent recording artist and producer, and built their own direct-to-fan platform, nessnite.art, so artists' work, audiences and income stay theirs. We bring the same idea to your organization: the platform, the data and the relationships belong to you.
Tell us what your staff does by hand. We'll build the rest.
We reply with questions first, then a first take on scope. Based in Los Angeles, working with organizations anywhere in the US, in English or Spanish.