Matt Phillips - VIRTUAL 2025 Canopy Cohort

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Matt Phillips - VIRTUAL 2025 Canopy Cohort

$5.00

Program Cost:

  • $5 Application Fee
    Donated to Alzheimer's Research

  • Course Tuition
    Details about tuition and financial aid below

Application Instructions:

  • Application Information and Requirements

  • Applications due Sunday, January 12th, 2025

  • Applicants will be notified January 15 - January 17, 2025

  • Each Cohort has the same application form. When applying, you will be able to select your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice of Cohort Mentor for the 2025 program year.

Applications Are Closed

Cohort Overview

Faculty Mentor: Matt Phillips
Cohort Type: virtual
Meeting Day: Mondays
Meeting Time: 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
Cohort Size: 10 Artists
3 Semesters: Spring 2025 | 9 Weeks
Summer 2025 | 2 Weeks
Fall 2025 | 9 Weeks
*specific start dates below
Group exhibition
in Chelsea, NYC:
December 4-6, 2025

Faculty Mentor Bio

Matt Phillips is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. His works often employ fundamental elements of painting: simple shapes, modulated values and color relationships. These rather rudimentary components are combined and remixed to produce unexpected outcomes. Color, shape, mark and form engage one another in both strange and familiar ways, becoming tense, humorous, quirky and ultimately meaningful.

Matt Phillips has had solo exhibitions at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC,NY; Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; and Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Mass, Tokyo, Japan; The Hole, Los Angeles, CA; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Hollis Taggart, NYC, NY. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.

Cohort Schedule Overview

ORIENTATION

Founder & artist, Catherine Haggarty will lead a virtual orientation with all Canopy Artists before each semester of The Canopy Program.

FOUNDATIONS

Semester 1 | Spring 2025

Mondays, 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
9 meetings via Zoom
9 weeks / 1 week off

February 24
March 3, 10, 17, 31
April 7, 14, 21, 28
(No meeting week of March 24)

LECTURES & DEVELOPMENT

Semester 2 | Summer 2025

4 meetings via Zoom + Asynchronous Lectures + Workshops

May 27 + 28
June 9 + 10

THE FULL PICTURE

Semester 3 | Fall 2025

Mondays, 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
9 meetings via Zoom
9 weeks / 1 week off

September 8, 15, 22, 29
October 13, 20, 27
November 3, 10
(No meeting week of October 6)

GROUP EXHIBITION - CHELSEA, NYC


December 4-6, 2025

After completing 3 semesters with your mentor, your cohort experience will culminate in a pop-up group exhibition at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea (NYC).

See previous Canopy Cohort Exhibitions at our Chelsea Studio!

ADDITIONAL CONTENT + MENTORSHIP

Throughout The Canopy Program, artists will have numerous opportunities to work with additional faculty and hear from special guest speakers. Artists will be invited to virtual + in-person meet-ups to connect all participating artists.
  • Office Hours with Canopy Mentors
  • Access to Recorded Archives from Lecture Club
  • Studio Visit Pairing with an artist from another cohort
  • Social Meetups

Tuition and Financial Aid

The full tuition total is $6,500, which includes:
Deposit: $500 deposit to secure seat in cohort
(part of tuition)
Semester 1 Tuition: $2000
Semester 2 Tuition: $2000
Semester 3 Tuition: $2000
The cost per contact hour is $88-92.

Please note: Upon acceptance, a $500 deposit is due by Wednesday, January 23rd in order to secure your spot in the cohort. The deposit will be applied toward your tuition.

You may choose to pay the full tuition on Sunday, February 16th, or enroll in a payment plan.

Please see Tuition and Financial Aid for more information regarding extended payment plans and Financial Aid.