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The Creative Time Emerging Artist Open Call invites artists working in all mediums to submit proposals for a new public art commission, to be presented in New York City in 2021. The call is designed for early career artists as a platform for experimentation and career advancement.

Submission Guidelines:

Applications are accepted electronically via Submittable. All complete applications received by March 15 at 11:59PM will be reviewed. Application materials sent by mail, in person, or by phone will not be considered.

For more information, including application guidelines and FAQs, click here.

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Ulterior is pleased to present the second solo exhibition at the gallery of all new work by the artist duo, Camel Collective. Camel Collective is comprised of Anthony Graves and Carla Herrera-Prats. Carla Herrera-Prats passed away in December 2019 after a two-year fight against cancer. The exhibition will open on Saturday, January 25, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 pm. Please join us to celebrate the opening of this important exhibition and the life of Carla Herrera-Prats and continuing endeavor of Camel Collective and Anthony Graves.

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Deadlines for LMCC Workspace and Sharpe Walentas Studio Program residencies are quickly approaching! 

LMCC Workspace deadline is: 2/27/2020 5 PM EST 

Sharpe Walentas Studio Program deadline is: 2/15/2020 11:59 PM EST

Both programs are fully funded and LMCC provides a one time stipend of $1,200 USD. 

Apply now:

LMCC Workspace: https://lmcc.net/resources/artist-residencies/workspace/

Sharpe Walentas Studio Program: 

https://thestudioprogram.com/apply/

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https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/NYC-Womens-Fund

APPLY NOW!

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Exhibition featuring past artist studio program resident Claudia Bitrand.

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Solo show by one of our incoming artist studio program residents now open

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Ronny Quevedo (2018-2019 artist studio program resident) presents Field of play, a site-specific installation at Open Source Gallery.

Field of play explores the effects of relocation and displacement through the abstraction of games and architecture. By incorporating the visual language of games the exhibition invokes a narrative space – where boundaries are malleable, iconography is re-imagined and the viewers are in ‘play’.

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Jia Sung is a past member of our artist studio program.

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Priyanka Dasgupta and Chad Marshall, artistic collaborators and residents of Smack Mellon’s 2018-2019 artist studio program, are putting together a new exhibition at the Knockdown Center. Click on the link for further details.

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One of our past artist studio program residents, Stephanie Jemison, is featured in this year’s whitney biennial!

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A member of this group exhibition participated in Smack Mellon’s artist studio program in 2003.

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Shaun Leonardo is a past participant of our artist studio program.

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Jes Fan is an upcoming participant in the 2019-2020 cycle of our artist studio program.

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Come visit our new group exhibition - I come to this place. 

Further information can be found via this link: https://www.smackmellon.org/exhibition/13641/

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Katie Bell & Austin Ballard Exhibition

March 9–April 21, 2019

Opening Reception: March 9, 6–8 PM

Artist Talk: April 4, 6:30–7:30 PM

Katie Bell

A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place

For Katie Bell, the sculptures in her site-specific installation act as marks, strokes, and fields of color, creating a painting language in architectural scale. Smack Mellon’s industrial interior—24-foot wall, steel columns, and cement floor—serves as the support for this sculptural painting. Made up of found, manipulated, and crafted objects, Bell’s work questions what comprises our visual landscape and how the artificial is often disguised as natural to give it an aura of grandeur. Included are discarded hot tub fragments clad in faux marble and fake rocks from a department store window display. In this immense rubble, the artist imagines what future ruins might look like, an environment in which the natural and the fabricated have become so inextricably merged that stone, fiberglass, and plastic are no longer distinguishable from one another.

Austin Ballard

Shadow Lake

Austin Ballard draws from childhood recollections to create an installation of floating light sculptures and venetian blinds. Often traveling between parents and grandparents growing up, his grandmother’s house in Charlotte, NC, became a symbol of stability because of the way she organized her home. However, attempting to conjure the experience of this domestic space became a disorienting exercise for the artist. As Ballard placed each light sculpture according to hazy recollections of the floor plan, the layering of shades in the installation develops into a metaphor for fallible memories. The shadows cast from the woven lampshades onto the gallery walls further heightens the feeling of distortion, as one might experience during a flashback. Through repeated patterns and fragmentation, Ballard’s work calls attention to the lag, slippage, and reinterpretation of even our most cherished memories.

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Princess Grace Film Awards

Grant Period: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020 Deadline: May 31 2019 (11:59 pm PST)

SCHOLARSHIPS are awarded to help support students’ thesis film projects at the undergraduate and graduate level. The category of Film is comprised of (but not limited to) narrative/documentary/experimental/animation/hybrid  work, as well as new work including media installations, transmedia, webisodes, interactive web work and other projects where the moving image is the primary component. These grants will be made in accordance with the student’s thesis project budget; no administrative charges, overhead or indirect costs incurred by the school may be charged against the grant. Should funding be awarded, acknowledgement of winning a Princess Grace Award, including the Princess Grace Awards logo, must appear in film credits/any related materials, and a copy of the completed film must be sent to the Foundation.

For more information, visit: https://www.pgfusa.org/grants-program/grant-applications/guidelines/film

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Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

PURPOSE

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES

The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living, including medical expenses. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.

GRANT RESTRICTIONS

The Foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers, or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories. The Foundation does not make grants to students or fund academic study. The Foundation does not make grants to pay for past debts, legal fees, the purchase of real estate, moves to other cities, personal travel, or to pay for the costs of installations, commissions or projects ordered by others.

SELECTION PROCESS

The Officers and Directors are advised in the selection process by a distinguished Committee of Selection comprised of recognized specialists in the fields of the Foundation's concern. Artists are required to submit a cover letter, an application, and images of current work. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. All completed applications will be promptly acknowledged and considered. If further information is required after the completed application has been received, the artist will be contacted directly by the staff. Further information including financial data may be requested at any time during the review process. The application process can take from nine months to a year.

REAPPLICATION PROCESS

Applicants may reapply to the Foundation. All reapplicants must send images of work not previously submitted. The procedure requires that grantees who reapply must wait 12 months from the end of their grant period. Reapplicants who were previously declined must wait at least 12 months from the date of their application letter to reapply. The 12-month waiting period may be waived for reapplicants applying under emergency circumstances. Past recipients of our grants should understand that the Foundation does not wish to become an instrument of extended or permanent support for particular individuals. Recipients who reapply must have either circumstances so changed as to warrant further support or have a genuine emergency situation.

FOUNDATION GOVERNANCE

The Directors reserve the right to review and redefine Foundation program guidelines according to the donor's original intent and their determination of how artists will be best served. It is not the policy of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation to release the names of grantees without the artist's permission; however, the law requires disclosure of this information and of taxable income to the Internal Revenue Service, which in turn, has the obligation of making such information publicly available.

For more information, visit: http://pkf.org/apply/#guidelines