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PointB is a self-sustained, international worklodge, offering ready to use studio lofts for creative professionals in science, art, and technology to work and live in for periods of one week up to four months. Over 1,000 visual artists, writers, filmmakers, performers, photographers and thinkers have been in residence at PointB's 71 N 7th street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn studio. Residents were often connected to other New York organizations such as Anton Kern Gallery, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, LMCC, Asia Cultural Society, Residency Unlimited, Bertrand Delacroix, Art in General, Meulensteen Gallery (formerly Max Protetch) and Harris Lieberman. . PointB was founded in 1996 by Mark Parrish and its Williamsburg location ran until 2016.

Worklodge
PointB opened its first worklodge in 1996 in a former ironworks factory at 71 N 7th street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The building featured 8 large work-live studios hand built by founder Mark Parrish with windows, a kitchen, a presentation/conference area, offices, and a library PointB also had an “in-house artist” who introduced lodgers to local communities and customs. Depending on the size of the studio, stay at the lodge costed from $2,200 to $3,200 a month payable by the lodger. PointB welcomed returning lodgers and provided storage and shipping for them.

The worklodge is intended for actively working professionals. As opposed to an art residency, PointB does not exist for artists only. Creative workers from diverse fields – architects, musicians, designers, entrepreneurs, writers, curators, scientists, and so on. The goal of the worklodge is not to sell a product, but to promote cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchange. It is for people who are self-supporting and active in their fields.

Today
PointB’s mission is to enable and enhance mobile lifestyles of creative professionals by providing flexible, ready-to-use working and living spaces and developing a shared global community of worklodges for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange. Using PointB’s location in New York City as a model, a network of international Worklodges is being developed. There are four locations currently in progress: a new New York City location, Lisbon, Portugal, Istanbul, Turkey, and São Paulo, Brazil. Supporting and cultivating the worktravel lifestyle of the 21st century, the network hopes to expand into Australia, Asia and the Middle East creating an accessible interlaced creative web reaching around the globe.