It’s June which means that the flowers are popping and friends are gathering (safely and according to CDC guidelines) and the fan is switched on in the studio.
I miss having a downtown Summer Studio for the proximity to other artist spaces. In my opinion Summer is the best time to have a studio that is close to things, it makes it easy spend 6 hours jamming out in the studio, followed by grabbing a bite to eat from a nearby place with another artist friend, or group of artist friends and then head back to some one’s studio for an impromptu studio visit/critique/etc.
Last Summer, much of this type of connection was replaced with zoom calls to my inner circle of art pals. Tried as we did to have collaborative studio sessions, open crits, and critical dialogues about where we each were and what we were hoping to accomplish. These sessions felt intimate and safe, mostly because they were done in small groups.
Now that we in the U.S. are opening up to in-person events, I am discovering an interesting feeling of concern bubbling up: what if someone asks me what I have been working on? How much am I comfortable sharing? What if they make assumptions based on my social media presence (which at times totally has been over compensating for my lack of being able to show up in person?)
I went to NYC a couple of weeks ago with a friend to look at art. As we walked over the Brooklyn Bridge, she said something along the lines of sometimes you have to stop posting and just make the damn art, let it be a mystery for everyone else but you. What she meant is that sometimes we need to do it for ourselves, privately before we share it with everyone else publicly. I appreciated this sentiment and my goal in sharing it is two fold.
First, I want to encourage you to put the phone down. Not completely, but just while you are in the studio. Just for this month. Make something without sharing it.
Second, I want you to think about what your art would look like if no one ever saw it. What would change about your approach? Subject Matter? Medium? What would you allow yourself to make if there was no pressure of anyone ever seeing it?
I hope you have a wonderful June, there are so many listings to wade through this month, I tried to curate a broad selection to share. The (W.A.R.) June Studio Playlist is also linked up below, just click the icon.
Kind wishes,
Wylie
HOT TIP-
Make Time for Fun. Play. Be Silly. Laugh. Hang with Friends. Enjoy yourself.
No really, taking time away from the studio allows your brain to rest and reset. Play promotes critical thinking skills, builds confidence, and is a way to creatively make sense of the world around you, plus it’s Fun! This month, try to set aside 10 minutes each day to do something fun. I am going to sit outside each morning and listen to the birds. What are you going to do?
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UPCOMING GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
Kala Fellowship Award- The Kala Fellowship Award is an international competition open to artists producing innovative work in all mediums including printmaking, digital media, installation art, social practice, photography, and book arts. There is a $10 application fee.
Deadline: June 4, 2021
Innovate Grant- This unrestricted $550 grant is awarded to one visual artist and one photographer each quarter. The fee to apply is $25.
Deadline: June 10, 2021
Columbia Law School’s Artist-in-Residence Program- Columbia Law School invites an artist to create at least one work that will be displayed at the school, as part of their artist-in-residency program. The selected artist will receive a grant of $15,000 and an allowance of up to $5,000 for art materials. Preference will be given to those who are in the early to middle stages of their careers.
Deadline: June 15, 2021
Stove Works Residency- This residency is designed for practicing visual artists, to writers and/or curators for one to three month stays. Facilities include a metal shop, wood shop, print shop, common shop space, and a library. Application fee of $10-30.
Deadline: June 15, 2021
Artist Relief- Artists who are facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19 can apply for $5,000 grants.
Deadline: June 23, 2021
Caldera Artist in Residence Program- This residency provides artists working on projects combat oppression and activate change with a private studio in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. The program is open to national and international artists and collectives in any creative discipline, as well as creative thinkers in culinary arts, design, engineering, and the sciences.
Deadline: June 25, 2021
NYC Public Artists in Residence- The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs offers three residencies inspired by artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ residency with the Department of Sanitation in the 1970s. Artist residencies are available at the Department of Sanitation, the Department of Records and Information Services, and the Department of Design and Construction.
Deadline: June 27, 2021
Interchange Artist Grant- Grants of $20,000 will be awarded to sixteen artists with an active socially-engaged creative practice in the mid-America Arts Alliance region.
Deadline: July 5, 2021
Awesome Foundation Grant- Have a crazy brilliant idea that needs funding? We award $1,000 grants every month. It couldn't be simpler! Your idea is yours alone. We don't want a stake in it. We just want to help you make it happen!
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant- Enables artists to create new work, purchase needed materials and pay for studio rent, as well as their personal expenses. Up to $30,000 Rolling application (https://pkf.org/apply/)
Rauschenberg Emergency Grant- NYFA and the Rauschenberg Foundation have teamed up to offer visual and media artists and choreographers in the US grants of up to $5,000 for medical related emergencies. Rolling Deadline.
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Open Call Vol. 14- Apply to have your work considered to be published in Volume 14 by Friend of the Artist and for an online exhibition through ArtiStellar. To live up to our mission of '"elevating emerging artists", we will ship this volume to over 50 galleries and art institutions. Accepted artists will also have a written statement about their works by an arts writer and have a 4-page spread of their work. We are fortunate to have some fantastic jurors. Volume 14 will be guest juried by Adele Smejkal, Angeliki Kim Jonsson, Nina Blumberg, Federica Fiumelli, and Sofia Carreira-Wham.
Deadline: June 6
Americas, Northwest Art Center- Works in any medium, traditional or experimental, including photographs, qualify. Work must have been completed within the last two years and not previously exhibited in an Americas 2000 exhibition. Entries will be judged from high resolution electronic images. Cash and purchase awards. Solo show for Best of Show. Entry fee: 2 entries $30; additional entries $5 each.
Deadline: June 15
All Abstraction- Contemporary Art Gallery Online encourages entries from all 2D and 3D artists regardless of their experience and/or education in the art field or where they may reside. This is an international competition and everyone is encouraged to participate. A group exhibition of all entrants will be held online at the Contemporary Art Gallery Online following the close of the competition for thirty days. Artists should submit their best non-representational art related to the "ALL Abstraction" theme. The “ALL Abstraction” theme is considered to be any art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.
Deadline: June 13
Camel Back Gallery- This call is open to all artists who are 18 years and older. The online gallery is accepting all painting mediums including drawing mediums and digital painting. (For this competition, digital and drawing mediums are categorized as a "painting".)
Artwork may be ANY STYLE OR SUBJECT MATTER that contains PURPLE or shades of PURPLE preferable as a prominent or secondary color.
Deadline: June 13
IncuArts is inviting artists to submit work for Past/ Present/ Future. This exhibition will explore how time, experience, and history impact us. Who writes our history? Are we simply repeating ourselves? How does the past impact the present and future? Whose narrative is being told? What is your story? What future are you fighting for? Has your story been ignored by the collective mainstream? Artists who are exploring ideas that are related to personal narrative, inclusion v exclusion, cultural issues, history, environmental issues, and social activism are encouraged to apply. Women, BIPOC, LGBTQA+, and other community members who embody these experiences, and whose stories have been excluded from our cultural narrative are strongly encouraged to apply.
Deadline: June 20
Vast Art Magazine- an international open call for ISSUE N°03. Get your work in print and published alongside emerging, new, and established practices from around the world. VAST showcases the expansive practice of artists and photographers from around the world, far and wide.
Deadline: June 16
CollexArt invites all artists 18 and over to submit small 2D or 3D works. We encourage a broad interpretation of the theme Big Ideas / Small Works (e.g. you may be focused on social/political issues, the environment, ideas revolving around scale, personal narrative, color studies). No matter your focus, the CollexArt curators are interested in a cohesive submission that clearly shows your thought process and approach.
Deadline: June 30
Visualizing the Past- Mills Pond Gallery invites artists to submit works for a juried exhibition August 7 - September 5, 2021. Juror: Carol Strickland. The exhibition is open to varied interpretations of the role of remembrance, suggesting what remains after a physical presence, event or emotion has vanished.
Mills Pond Gallery invites artists to submit works for a juried exhibition on the theme of poet Emily Dickinson’s phrase: “Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.” The exhibition is open to multiple responses to the metaphor: a bell that summons the public to a joyous celebration or rings mournfully to signal loss. Artists may explore the role of remembrance—from personal reflections to universal emotions—through abstract, representational, or mixed modalities. Visual evocations of past events, landscapes, people, scenes, objects, or structures can make intangible thoughts, emotions, and concepts visible to the mind’s eye. Images that preserve the past can retard decay and disappearance. Conversely, they could also give form to the inevitable ravages of time. Whether invoking the highs or lows of cultural memory, artists can suggest what remains after a physical presence, event, or emotion has vanished.
Deadline: June 30
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SELECTED ONLINE LECTURES/ARTIST TALKS/INTERVIEWS/PODCASTS/ETC.
BX200 Live with Artist Lizzy Alejandro- Instagram Live @bx200, Wednesday, TODAY, June 2, 3pm EST.
The Parent Trap: How to Be an Artist With Kids- Kolaj Live- In her 2018 book, “A Big Important Art Book - Now with Women!,” Danielle Krysa tells a number of stories about how artists who negotiate being a mother and working their art practice. Spoiler alert, It's not easy. In this Kolaj LIVE Online forum, Krysa will join four additional panelists and speak about how they negotiate parenthood, specifically the challenges of being an artist and raising children. Wylie Garcia will talk about managing creative time with young children, ways to stay engaged in one's practice, finding time to make art, and how to incorporate it into the daily routine, without feeling guilty. Cheryl Chudyk will talk about feeling like an outsider among both her childless colleagues in art and other non-artist parents, not quite fitting in with either. Ben DiNino will speak to being a stay at home parent and how he has adapted his process to be more flexible with both the time and energy available to him. Teresa Cribelli will talk about how parenting sets strict parameters around each daily schedule. The event is free and open to anyone.
SUNDAY JUNE 27, 4PM EST.
Las Hermanas Iglesias- Vermont Studio Center
Matthew Mazotta- Playful, wondrous public spaces built for community and possibility (also another great interview with him here)
Wynnie Mynerva interview in Vice by Emma Russell
Extra Lecture Events via Brooklyn Rail here.
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This month I’ve decided to host a 1 hour online Drawing Room via zoom on Wednesday, June 30th from 7-8PM, est. It’s free for everyone. You bring the materials of your choice, and I will set up a still-life to work from as inspiration, you don’t have to stick to it, you could also just bring a project of your own and socialize. I will make a reminder post with more details and the zoom link later in the month.
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