Call for Artists: Open Engagement 2018

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PROPOSALS FOR OPEN ENGAGEMENT 2018 CLOSING SOON – OCT 31, 2017 11:59PM PST.

Local, national, and international artists, activists, academics, cultural producers, administrators, curators, educators, writers, thinkers, doers, and makers of all ages with a vested interest in art and social practice are encouraged to propose programming through our free call.

Open Engagement 2018 –– SUSTAINABILITY will take place May 11 – 13 at the Queens Museum and a constellation of sites throughout New York City. This year’s conference will feature presenters Lucy Lippard and Mel Chin. Proposals can address this year’s theme of SUSTAINABILITY, or the field of socially engaged art more broadly. Our curatorial statement and proposal guidelines are online.

APPLY here: http://openengagement.info/apply/

Call for Artists: Focal Point at Maryland Federation of Art

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Focal Point: Nationally Juried Exhibition

Organization: Maryland Federation of Art
 
Location: Circle Gallery (18 State Circle Annapolis, MD 21401)
 
Entry Deadline: November 14
 
Exhibition Dates: January 25-February 24
 
Description: Computer software has forever expanded ways for artists to capture and produce their work. MFA celebrates this exhibition by examining the artistic use of all digital media. Eligible entries may be either 2-D or 3-D image based work that is created and/or produced through the use of software (whether purchased or artist created) and includes, but is not limited to digitally produced: photography, graphic design, painting, video and non-film projection. Please visit the exhibition website for additional information. Works selected will be exhibited at MFA’s Circle Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland from January 25 to February 24, 2017.
 

Call for Artists: Public Art Project (Rockville, MD)

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CALL-TO-ARTISTS: REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

University Systems of Maryland, Universities at Shady Grove (USG), Rockville, MD

Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Education Facility (BSE)

Budget; Concept Design Development: $40,000, Fabrication & Installation: $520,000

Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2017

Overview: The Maryland State Arts Council in partnership with the University Systems of Maryland announces a national Request for Qualifications for a public art project on the campus of the Universities at Shady Grove, Rockville, MD. The new BSE Facility is 228,000 SF that will serve the STEMM fields. The building will be sustainably sourced and built and should achieve Gold Level LEED certification. The BSE will educate students and users about the building’s systems and sustainable features such as sunshades, baffles, skylights, bio-swales and rainwater harvesting. The artwork should highlight the mission of the BSE STEMM fields and building sustainability features and should visually link inside and outside and connect to the campus. Artist or artist teams apply submitting a Statement of Interest, Resume, References, and 12 background images. Full Guidelines and Architectural plans on the MSAC website. Apply on CaFÉ.

For questions about the BSE project please email liesel.fenner@maryland.gov. For technical questions about CaFÉ, email cafe@westaf.org.

Call for Artists: Summer Art & Learning Academy

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The Summer Arts & Learning Academy (July 9-August 10, 2018) is hiring both Teaching Artists and Artist Apprentices. Artists in the program use their art to educate and engage children every day for five weeks.

Full-day Teaching Artists:

  • Receive a competitive salary ($8,750 for the five-week Academy and one week of professional development)
  • Receive 40 hours of paid training (if needed) in arts integration and classroom instruction
  • Join a nurturing, collaborative, and creative community of people that are dedicated to the young people of our city

Half-day Artist Apprentices:

  • Receive $15/hour to support Teaching Artists in their afternoon arts classes during the five-week Academy and three days of professional development (a limited number of full-day slots will be available)

More information and the application can be found here or at one of their upcoming Info Sessions, November 7th or 15th. Artists can RSVP here.

 

Nate Larson selected for MASOB Artist Travel Prize

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Dollar General, Olney, Illinois, 2017

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) and the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASOB) are happy to announce the recipient of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize, Nate Larson. Selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, Nate will use the $6,000 award to work on his project “Centroid Towns,” a long-term photographic project documenting towns that have been the mean center (meaning the geographical point that describes a centerpoint of a region’s population) of the United States. This travel grant will facilitate travel to two towns in Indiana to continue his work focusing on issues of immigration, incarceration and their relationship to national identity.

Currently based out of Baltimore, Maryland, Nate Larson is a contemporary artist working with photographic media, artist books and digital video. Most of his current artwork, research, and collaborations explore the linkage between human experience and the site on which it happened through technological, cultural, and historical threads.

His projects have been widely exhibited across the United States and internationally as well as featured in numerous publications and media outlets, including Wired, The Guardian, The Picture Show from NPR, Slate, CNN, Hyperallergic, Gizmodo, Buzzfeed News, Vice Magazine, the New York Times, Utne Reader, Hotshoe Magazine, Flavorwire, the BBC News Viewfinder, Frieze Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, APM’s Marketplace Tech Report, The Washington Post, and Art Papers. His artwork is included in the collections of High Museum Atlanta, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago.

photo courtesy Sean Scheidt

“I am very grateful for the Artist Travel Prize and thank the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and the Municipal Art Society for their support,” said Larson. “It will empower me to work on “Centroid Towns,” a long-term social documentary project studying the cities that have been the mean center of population of the United States using photography, oral history interviews, and local archive research. The travel prize will fund fieldwork in two small towns in Indiana to examine the ways in which they have been affected by immigration and incarceration. The larger project puts a face to statistical data, chronicling these towns and their inhabitants to illuminate the ongoing social and political transformation of America.”

The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore was founded in 1899 as part of the City Beautiful movement. It is one of only two remaining societies to be operating under its original charter “to provide sculptural and pictorial decoration and ornaments for the public buildings, streets and open spaces in the City of Baltimore, and to help generally beautify the City.” Artistic contributions to the City span more than one hundred years. In 2016 the MASOB embarked on a path to provide new opportunities to Baltimore artists and art places within the City, including this Artist Travel Prize and an annual Public Art Prize.

Designing the Parkway

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DESIGNING THE PARKWAY 

Wed. Oct. 25, 2017 

SNF Parkway Theatre

5 W. North Ave. Baltimore

A conversation and behind-the-scenes look at the rebranding of the Maryland Film Festival and how Baltimore’s grandest movie theater was turned into a 21st-century landmark. 

With:

Ziger/Snead Architects

Post Typography

& Southway Builders

Moderated by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

Presented by AIA Baltimore and AIGA Baltimore as part of Design Month 2017

Sponsored by Indigo Ink

Happy hour at 5:30 PM

Event starts at 6:30 pm 

 

Students: free

AIA or AIGA members: $5

General public: $10

Advance tickets: http://www.aiabaltimore.org/events/designing-the-parkway/

The Parkway Theatre’s unique architecture and design approach celebrates the building’s 100 years of opulence, decay, and reinvention. The stunning transformation of this grand theater contrasts modern interventions with a century of history, resulting in a ‘rescued ruin’ where layers of the past coexist with the future.

Architects Ziger/Snead and designers Post Typography, along with Southway Builders share stories and the process behind the theater’s provocative design and the challenges of bringing this abandoned movie palace back to life as a year-round home for contemporary cinema. Explore one of Baltimore’s most unique architectural landmarks while enjoying a cocktail, craft beer, and some popcorn.