The In Practice 2025 Open Call is open for submissions as of Jun 12, 2024.
The proposal deadline is Aug 4, 2024 at 11:59pm EST.
All artists will be notified of their submission status via email by Jan 2025.
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SculptureCenter’s annual open call for artists is open as of Jun 12, 2024. In Practice 2025 will generate a yearlong series of solo presentations.
We invite artists who have not yet had an institutional solo exhibition in New York City to submit proposals for solo exhibitions in designated gallery spaces at SculptureCenter. Artists are also invited to propose off-site projects, publishing initiatives, performances, and nontraditional formats, which will be considered based on feasibility. Up to seven artists will be selected to participate in the program from spring 2025 to winter 2026. Each exhibition will be on view for approximately four to six weeks.
SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution that takes the history and legacy of sculpture as a framework from which to consider the diverse activity taking place in the field of contemporary art. SculptureCenter’s program encourages artists and audiences to explore the possibilities of sculpture and the multifarious ways in which sculpture is developing and connecting to other forms of expression, including installation, video, performance, architecture, and other media.
In Practice 2024 runs from May 2024 to Mar 2025 with exhibitions by Covey Gong, Phoebe Collings-James, Bastien Gachet, Tony Chrenka, Anita Esfandiari, and Zishi Han and Wei Yang.
Proposal Instructions & Materials
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Proposal deadline: Aug 4, 2024 at 11:59pm EST
You will be asked to submit:
Artist Statement (up to 150 words)
Project Proposal for In Practice 2024 (up to 200 words)
Project Budget (up to $6,000)
Images (up to 10)
Video/audio links (up to 3) *Excerpts preferred.
CV
Full proposal instructions are also included within the Submittable interface.
Artists are asked to provide a detailed proposal for new work to be produced with SculptureCenter’s support and exhibited for the first time at SculptureCenter. The proposal must include a detailed description and/or renderings of the proposed presentation, a working budget, and additional language or imagery situating the proposal in relation to past work.
Please refer to the Floorplans included in the Proposal Materials for details about the location and dimensions of the gallery available for In Practice proposals.
Proposals should reflect a production budget of up to $6,000.
Participating artists will receive a separate honorarium of $1,000.
Artists will receive the support of SculptureCenter’s curatorial and exhibition production staff, access to SculptureCenter’s audiovisual equipment pool (as available), installation assistance, and installation photography.
Proposals will be reviewed by SculptureCenter’s curatorial staff and a panel of outside curators, writers, and artists. A select number of artists will be contacted for studio visits in fall/winter 2024.
Proposals will be reviewed relative to the following criteria: quality of proposal and prior work; engagement with emerging working methods and idiosyncratic ideas; rigor in connection or departure from prior work and interests; responsiveness to the site and context (physical or otherwise) of SculptureCenter as an institution; feasibility of the project with regard to budget and timeline.
Questions? Please review the materials above and the text below. If you still have questions, please email inpractice@sculpture-center.org.
We look forward to reviewing your proposal.
Website link: https://www.sculpture-center.org/in_practice
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