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SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK ARTISTS APPLICATION AND GUIDELINES PLEASE NOTE: The 2010 Application cycle is now closed. These guidelines will remain posted for reference only. The 2011 Application and Guidelines will be posted in October 2011. Artists can apply for one or all of the following exhibition categories: - 2010 Spring Exhibition - Emerging Artist Fellowship Program - Open Space If you are applying for more than one exhibition category, you only need to send one application package. If you want to, you may submit more than one proposal with your application. DEADLINE: Monday, January 25, 2010 (due, in-hand, by 5pm) Download the 2010 Artist Application Form and Guidelines (PDF) Artists seeking a Socrates Sculpture Park grant and exhibition opportunity are strongly encouraged to visit the Park before submitting their application. Applicants must take into account the site's rugged, urban outdoor environment and be aware that sculptures installed in the Park must meet safety requirements and be able to withstand the effects of weather and public use. Visiting the site will give applicants a clearer idea of the factors that effect installations at the Park and an overview of the facilities that the Park has to offer, including the tools and equipment available in the studio and the materials and resources available in Long Island City. Click here for directions to Socrates Sculpture Park. 2010 Spring Exhibition May to August 2010 This exhibition will examine the presence of nature within the fabric of urban life. The introduction or invasion of plants and animals in the cityscape symbolizes a broad scope of conditions and dynamics - from far reaching social, political, economic and aesthetic issues to an individual's relationship with their immediate surroundings. Nature's presence in the urban environment can take many forms: green roofs, community gardens, city parks, corporate plazas; Peregrine Falcons nesting on 5th Avenue balconies; vast populations of rats and pigeons that have readily adapted to the habitat of busy streets; Ailanthus trees growing from crumbling buildings, abandoned construction sites, and cracks in the sidewalk. This range from invited and cultivated to invasive and insidious represents everything from the most innovative urban planning and a trend towards the greening of cities to a symptom of and contributor to the decay of the built environment. For this exhibition, Socrates will provide artists with funding, administrative and technical assistance, a one to three month residency in the outdoor studio, and access to facilities, materials and equipment to create a new work - or will assist with shipping and rigging to place an already existing work - to be presented in this exhibition. The amount of financial support available to artists is contingent upon the requirements of their proposal and the funding that Socrates receives to support this exhibition. Eligibility: Participation in the spring exhibition is open to all artists, nationally and internationally, but Socrates cannot provide any housing or transportation. Artists living outside New York will have to make their own living and travel arrangements. Artists who are enrolled in a school, college or university are not eligible for this program. Emerging Artist Fellowship Program September 2010 to March 2011 Emerging Artist Fellowship recipients are granted financial support in the amount of $5,000, a residency in the outdoor studio (beginning in March 2010), and access to facilities, materials, equipment and technical assistance to create a work for the annual Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition. Fellows are also given the administrative assistance to do additional fundraising for their project, procure in-kind support and pursue future commissions, residencies and placement for their work. Fellowship artists are selected through an open application process. Proposals are reviewed by an advisory committee composed of past EAF recipients, prominent curators, artists, writers, gallerists and arts administrators. Following the first round of selections, Socrates staff members meet with the artists individually to discuss their proposal in greater detail and assist them with the development, engineering and fabrication of the project. Eligibility: Fellowships are awarded to artists who are not yet well established, are New York State residents, and are in need of financial assistance. Artists who are enrolled in a school, college or university are not eligible for the Emerging Artist Fellowship program. Open Space Socrates grants are also awarded for single artist projects and collaborations that are presented as separate exhibitions throughout the year. Through the Open Space program, Socrates provides artists with funding, administrative and technical assistance, a one to six month residency in the outdoor studio, and access to facilities, materials and equipment to create a new work - or will assist with shipping and rigging to place an already existing work - for exhibition in the Park. Funding for this program varies from year to year and the amount of financial support available to artists is contingent upon the requirements of a given proposal and the grants that Socrates receives to support the Open Space exhibitions. Eligibility: This program is open to all artists, nationally and internationally, but Socrates can not provide any housing or transportation. Artists living outside New York will have to make their own living and travel arrangements. Artists who are enrolled in a school, college or university are not eligible for this program. - Download the 2010 Artist Application Form and Guidelines (PDF) - Join Socrates' Mailing List to receive updates on deadlines and other opportunities for artists. PAST ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2001 Paul Bloodgood Doug Ross Valerie Smith 2002 Beth Campbell Laura Hoptman Andrew Kreps Sarah Sze Gregory Volk 2003 Katrin Asbury Sara Meltzer Shamim Momin Carolee Thea Andrea Zittel 2004 Stephanie Cash Elizabeth Demaray Mark Dion Janice Guy Harry Philbrick 2005 Anne Ellegood Corin Hewitt Michael Joo Katy Siegel Rebecca Smith 2006 Anna Craycroft Zach Feuer Diane Shamash Rirkrit Tiravanija 2007 Dave Hardy Jeffrey Kastner Abigail Messitte Sara Reisman 2008 Sylvia Chivaratanond Michael Lieberman Roxy Paine Hank Willis Thomas Kara Vander Weg 2009 Vandana Jain Martha Schwendener Amy Smith-Stewart Neville Wakefield Kara Walker |
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