The Value of W.A.G.E.- Working Artists and the Greater Economy

Webinar

1/21/2026 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Zoom Webinar
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Instructors

Lise Soskolne, Artist/Core Organizer of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (WAGE)

Description

Since its founding in 2008, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) has agitated around the chronic problem of non-payment in the art field while focusing strategically on the relationship between artists and nonprofit institutions. Co-founder & core organizer Lise Soskolne will present on W.A.G.E.’s long standing campaign to standardize the compensation of artists’ labor as well as its growing suite of calculation tools for art and cultural workers that merge publicly available government data with worker-driven payment standards. This session will include a participatory discussion with ARCS members about how they can use W.A.G.E.’s tools to advocate not only for the value of artists’ labor, but also for their own value in the preservation, circulation, administration, and exhibition of art.

Speaker

Lise Soskolne, Artist/Core Organizer of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (WAGE)

Lise Soskolne is an artist and core organizer of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), a New York-based activist organization founded in 2008. W.A.G.E.’s mission is to establish sustainable economic relationships between artists and the institutions that contract their labor, and to introduce mechanisms for self-regulation into the art field that collectively bring about a more equitable distribution of its economy. Along with many others, Lise is a co-founder of W.A.G.E. and has been its core organizer since 2012.

Date: January 21, 2026
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm ET

Fees

Members

$25.00 before January 20, 2026

Non-members

$50.00 before January 20, 2026

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