Willingness to act with care and respect toward all collaborators, including More Art staff, EA fellows, and community members.Commitment to intersectional thinking and artmaking.Strong commitment to More Art’s values, including but not limited to social justice and public engagement, inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and collaboration.Willingness to present, support, and attend work produced in community and public settings, as opposed to galleries and museums.Interest in More Art’s work and eagerness to learn. We highly encourage applications from artists whose work is participatory or follows traditions of interventionism and partnerships or elements of community organizing and education.Ĭlick here to learn more about our commitment to community engagement and the Engaging Artists model. More Art offers artists a unique pathway to be able to continue their practice in collaboration with advocacy organizations, schools, coalitions, unions, groups of neighbors, or the public at large. The Commission has been renamed this year-it was formerly the “EA Residency.” While the EA Fellowship model supports the professional development of emerging public artists working at the intersections of art & social justice, the Commission provides a platform for early career socially-engaged artists to present their work in a public space. how we define the EA commission.Ģ023 will be the fourth year of this program, which grew out of the Engaging Artists Fellowship. We are unlikely to support projects that have been presented elsewhere.Ĭlick here to read our definitions of public art and socially engaged art. The Commission is an opportunity for artists to collaborate deeply with More Art on all aspects of the artwork-as such, we are seeking projects that would benefit from mentorship and artists who are flexible to change and exchange. We welcome artists who are looking to develop a new project or build on a current project in its early stages. Click this link for more information on the Fellowship program. The selected artist will be working directly with More Art staff including the Chief Curator, Associate Curator, Director of Operations and Strategy, and the Communications and Programs Assistant, as well as representatives from the public spaces with whom we collaborate.Īrtists are also invited to participate in workshops, artist talks, and peer network support with the EA Fellows. In addition, More Art collaborates with the selected artist or collective to facilitate community engagement, strategic project management, budgeting, curatorial vision, modes of presentation and circulation, PR and press outreach, identification and vetting of sites within the Parks system, application for permits, and the curation of final installations, performances, and educational programs. The selected project must culminate in a public art installation, event, series, collaboration, or engagement between September and December 2023. $8000 will be awarded to one socially-engaged art project to take place in a public space in New York City. *The Engaging Artists Commission was formerly known as the Engaging Artists Residency. The Commission is part of More Art’s Engaging Artists program which provides infrastructure and laboratory for artists to gain a deeper understanding of the history and vitality of public and socially engaged art. If there are issues with your application, you may be asked to postpone and present at a later meeting.More Art’s Engaging Artists Commission* is an opportunity for early career artists focused on the incubation and commissioning of a public art project and carries an $8000 award to realize the project, plus curatorial, conceptual, budgetary, and logistical mentorship. If you are proposing a project for City property and need the BAC to review it by a certain date, please see the table below with the deadlines for submitting the Public Art and Design Application each month. Once you complete the public art and design application, the public art team will review it and follow up with you if more information is needed.
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