29 Oct 2024

Art Calls VisArts Emerging Curator Program 2025

VisArts at Rockville –  Rockville, Maryland, United States

Opportunity Description

U.S. National Deadline: January 10, 2025 – VisArts invites applications from emerging curators to work with an experienced mentoring curator to develop and present an exhibition at VisArts in the Kaplan Gallery in the fall of 2025.

The VisArts Emerging Curator Program offers a unique opportunity for an emerging curator or artist with an interest in exhibition-making or curating to work with an experienced mentoring curator to develop and present an exhibition and to assist in the presentation of the mentor’s exhibition. To develop expanded education programming and enhanced visitor experiences, the 2025 Emerging Curator and the 2025 Mentoring Curator will also focus on developing tools to support public programming that promotes social interaction, creative exchange, and audience engagement.

VisArts will provide the Emerging Curator with $10,000 budget to cover exhibition costs and curatorial fees. Additional funding and staff support for printing, promotions, and execution of exhibition programming is available. The program is one year and will begin in January 2025

ELIGIBILITY
International applicants must be eligible to work in the United States. VisArts is unable to provide or assist with visas.

APPLY ONLINE – No Application Fee

DATES

  • Application deadline: January 10, 2025
  • Finalists notified: January 17, 2025
  • Finalist interviews: January 21-22, 2025
  • Emerging Curator notified: January 24, 2025
  • Program: January 2025 – January 2026 (detailed schedule TBD)
  • Emerging Curator exhibition:  November 14, 2025 – January 18, 2026
  • Mentoring Curator exhibition:  August 1 – September 28, 2025

About:
From our beginning in 1987 as Rockville Arts Place operating in a converted garage to our current contemporary, state of the art facility in Rockville Town Square, VisArts has served local residents, students, art lovers, professional artists and others with an interest in the arts. Each year, VisArts welcomes more than 25,000 visitors through our doors to participate in art education classes and camp programs, attend events in our Buchanan Room, visit one of our four galleries or observe our studio artists on our second floor Artist Concourse.

VisArts at Rockville
155 Gibbs Street
Rockville, MD 20850
t: 301-315-8200

Opportunity Categories: + Curatorial and + Open to Multi-Media. Opportunity Types: Art Calls. Opportunity Tags: $0 Entry/Application Fee, Deadlines 01 Jan thru Feb, and Open to U.S. Artists Only. Benefits: *No Participation Fee, Exhibition - Solo, In-Kind Benefit, and Stipend.

Opportunity expires in 49 days.

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