January 15, 2020
Opportunities for Artists in January 2020
A list of opportunities for artists and creatives you can apply for this January.
A Striking Installation Reveals How Ableist Design Can Be
In Emily Barker’s exhibition, scaled-up cabinets tower above the viewer and a rug, six inches thick, poses an insurmountable barrier for a wheelchair.
Brandon Sward
A New Abolitionist Book Club in NYC Aims to Improve Literacy About Incarceration
The book club’s first selection is Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete?. The monthly gatherings will be held at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center in Manhattan.
Hakim Bishara
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Apply for Warren Wilson’s Low-Residency MA Program Focused on Craft History and Theory
With the MA in Critical Craft Studies, students can connect their academic and life experiences to histories and narratives of craft. Applications are due March 1, 2020.
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Navajo Artist Creates Controversial Pro-Palestinian Mural on Santa Fe’s Eastside
The artist, Remy, installed reproductions of gruesome photographs from newspapers on a wall in the city’s historic district. The historic preservation board has ruled that the works must be removed within two weeks.
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Receives $750K for New Campus
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced the recipients of $30.9 million in grants this morning in Santa Fe at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, which received a matching grant to go toward its new campus project.
Russian Artist Faces Six Years in Jail For Pro-LGBTQ Social Media Posts
After sharing feminist and LGBTQ-friendly art on social media, 26-year-old theater director Yulia Tsvetkova has been placed under house arrest, fined, and accused of distributing “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors.”
The Oldest Drawing of Venice Has Been Discovered
The drawing, discovered by Dr. Sandra Toffolo, was made by Niccolò da Poggibonsi during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem from Italy in 1346-1350.
In Letter to MoMA, 37 Artists in Gulf Wars Exhibition Target Trustees
Martha Rosler, Michael Rakowitz, and Laura Poitras are among the artists who call on the museum to separate itself from trustees with ties to private prison companies.
The War Over Images in Chile
Reports by the mainstream media and uploads on social media tell vastly different stories of the ongoing protests.
Jaime Grijalba
Kiki Smith on Cave Girls , Collaboration, and Some of Her Earliest Works
Since the early 1980s, Kiki Smith has created artworks marked by her fascination and concern with the human body.
Joseph Nechvatal
Meet LA’s Art Community: Jazmín Urrea on Public Art and Finding Inspiration in Her Hometown
An interview series spotlighting some of the great work coming out of Los Angeles. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
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