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Apply
Send your work, the bars you have worked, and any competition history.
ESOM Artists
Clients booka name. Nota headcount.
A named roster of baristas. You run bars for the brands we produce for, build drinks that carry your name, and get paid on more than hours worked.
The roster
2,300
Baristas in the national network
10
Years on the national latte art circuit
3
Tiers on the roster
Ten years on the national latte art circuit built a bench of 2,300 baristas. ESOM Artists is the named layer on top of it. Artists are invited, inducted, and listed on this site. Clients request them by name.
Three tiers
Where you stand on the roster
Every artist starts in the same place. The tier you hold decides what you run and what you earn on.
01 — Tier
Artist
How you get it
Apply, then pour with us at the Long Island City bar.
What you do
Run a bar on client sites.
What you earn on
Tier booking rate.
02 — Tier
Signature Artist
How you get it
Nominated on a competition result, or by the team.
What you do
Lead the bar and the crew. Own one menu build.
What you earn on
Lead rate, content fee, build credit.
03 — Tier
Master Artist
How you get it
Annual, by invitation.
What you do
Teach Academy, judge the Circuit, front brand partnerships.
What you earn on
Retainer, teaching rate, partnership fee.
The route in
Six steps, in order
No shortcuts and no quiet additions. Every artist on this page came through the same six steps.
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02
Review
We read every application. The work first, then the rooms you have run.
03
Pour session
You pour with us at the Long Island City bar.
04
Decision
You hear back either way.
05
Induction
Kit, standards, and rates, before your first booking.
06
Your profile
You go up on this page as a named artist.
Standing ruleNo one is announced publicly before induction is finished.
Four lines
Paid on four lines, not a shift wage
An artist is paid for the event, and then for what the event keeps producing.
01
Artist rate
You worked the event.
02
Content fee
Your work appears in a sponsor video or photo set.
03
Build credit
A drink you menued runs at an event.
04
Teaching and purse
You taught an Academy class, or placed at a Circuit final.
Three of the four can pay again after the event is over. Rates are set by tier and confirmed with you at induction.
The bar is only as good as the person behind it.
Espresso State of Mind — Long Island City
Tiers move. Standards do not.
Moving up
Tiers are reviewed twice a year, and after every Circuit final. Artist to Signature is a nomination from the roster lead and a sign-off from the owner. Signature to Master is annual, and both have to agree. A tier change is recorded the same day and your profile here is updated within the week.
Staying on
Three things take an artist off the roster: a no-show, a standards failure, or twelve months without a booking worked. The profile comes off the site within 48 hours. The record stays on file, marked inactive. Nothing is deleted.
Before you apply
No. A competition result is one route into Signature tier. It is not a requirement to apply.
No. Artists are booked event by event, by tier and availability.
New York City and the surrounding market, plus select markets nationwide.
You pour with us at the Long Island City bar, so the work is seen in person before anything is promised.
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Apply to the roster
Send your work, the bars you have worked, and any competition history. If it fits, we put you on the schedule for a pour session in Long Island City.