The Work Office (TWO) is now hiring

The Work Office (TWO) is now hiring!

Visit www.theworkoffice.com to apply. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis through July 9th.

The Work Office (TWO) is a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency. Informed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the Great Depression in the 1930s, TWO is a gesture to “make work” for visual and performing artists, writers, and others by giving them simple, idea-based assignments that explore, document, and improve life in New York. From a temporary, publicly accessible storefront office, TWO's administrators will hire employees, exhibit work, and distribute Depression-era wages during weekly Payday Parties.

You are invited to submit your application online, be interviewed, and, once hired, choose one of our assignments:
Build a bridge
Document a need for repairs
Make a regional travel guide for your block or neighborhood
Record an oral history
Reinterpret a newspaper photograph
Design a poster to promote something
Catalog existing WPA structures in New York
Make a mixed CD related to…
Give a concert for your houseplant
Make an edition to exchange with TWO co-workers
Start an American tradition that you’d like to be preserved
Assign yourself

You will have a week to complete your assignment, for which you will be paid $23.50, the weekly wage for an artist in the Federal One Project (the arts division of the WPA).

TWO will hold a Payday Party each Friday evening in July at the office. Employees will collect their wages and the public will be invited to view the week’s works and learn about the project.

We are accepting applications on a rolling basis through July 9th. Please visit our website www.theworkoffice.com for details and an application.

Questions? Call us at 212-901-0659 or write us [email protected]


The Work Office (TWO) is made possible in part by chashama and a grant from the Black Rock Arts Foundation.