OMA Launches Public Artist-In-Residency Programs with Exploring Engagement Grant

GREAT NEWS! Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) just received a $150,000 Exploring Engagement Grant from The James Irvine Foundation to launch a series of interactive and public artist-in-residency programs carried out in non-traditional off-site locations throughout San Diego, California with an emphasis in North County. This project will encourage risk-taking residencies by regional contemporary artists and/or artist collaboratives with high levels of public engagement and public art making. With this residency series OMA strives to blur the lines between art and life through the process of active participation vs. passive observation.

OMA’s Exploring Engagement Initiative will present five (5) artist-in-residencies rolled out individually/sequentially on a quarterly basis over approximately 15 months (from November 2013 through Spring 2015). The five projects will directly address the four key socio-economic factors that define Oceanside: military, beaches/tourism, retail, and transportation hub(s). In addition, one project is anticipated to connect these OMA/North County San Diego arts communities with the broader regional arts community in downtown San Diego. Each residency will involve risk-taking, interactive, participatory, art-making experiences that increase the public’s comfort level with art, specifically contemporary art. Technology will be utilized through the creation of an app that will track the project. Each artist will use the app to upload images and writing on their creative progress and promote events associated with the project, in addition to blogging and Facebooking through the entirety of the project. Video shorts will also be made to document projects and be uploaded for public viewing on YouTube and streamed in OMA’s lobby. 

OMA is currently accepting artist proposals for the inaugural residency project to be located in a retail shopping area in North County San Diego that will take place November/December 2013. This RFP is open to all visual artists and artist teams over the age of 18, who currently reside, work, or attend a university within 50 miles of San Diego County, California.

David Fobes and Jazmin Manriquez, Mindscape/Mindfill, an installation presented by 

Oceanside Museum of Art at Westfield Plaza Camino Real Shopping Center in Carlsbad, CA. 

Currently on view through September 2013.

Application Deadline: Applications must be received by Friday, September 6, 2013, 4:00 p.m. PST. No exceptions. 

Honorarium: Selected artist/artist team will be awarded $6,500 for their successful execution and completion of their selected artist residency project. This stipend must cover all costs for the artist including: artists time, materials, travel, labor, hired contractors [if any] and all other expenses to create the work and carry out the interactive public residency.

Additional Requirements for Participating Artists: The selected artist/artist team will be required to regularly manage and post on both a project blog and OMA’s Facebook page throughout their residency. Artists must be active participants in a minimum of one public educational program (i.e., lecture, panel discussion) presenting their project to an audience. Artists also agree to support all marketing and PR/media opportunities associated with the project including their participation in a documentary short covering the project.

OMA Exploring Engagement Application Guidelines and Specifications

Submission Requirements:

Artists may submit up to two projects for consideration. Proposals may be submitted by mail or by hand delivery (Must be received at OMA by 4 p.m. (PST) on Sept. 6, 2013) and must include the following:

1. Completed application form (see below)

2. Current Resume (limit two pages)

3. Letter of Interest briefly addressing how you will approach this residency project. This document should be no longer than one page (single spaced, 12 pt. font)

4. List of three professional references: please include names, address, phone number, and email for each individual

5. Project Proposal: Artists may submit up to two project proposals.

a. A written description of the project outlining the artwork created, the methods of public interaction, the methods of public interactive art making and the site you are interested in working at.

b. Visuals that demonstrate quality art making and past completed works. Please send 3-5 high resolution Jpeg images of past work. All images must be submitted in CD format.

6. (Optional) Visuals that further explain the proposed project. These can be hand rendered images, digital sketches or photo collages. Please send 3-5 high resolution Jpeg images. All images must be submitted in CD format.

7. Annotated Image List for all images on the submitted CD: Please include the artist’s name as a heading, the title of the work, medium, year created, size and a brief description of each image.

All CD’s must be labeled with the applicant’s names, contact information (telephone number and email address). Every image file must be titled with the following information:

Artists name, title of artwork and artwork number that matches the annotate image list.

Please do not submit paper materials in plastic covers, binders or folders.

Send All Materials to:

Exploring Engagement Residency Program

Attn: Tara Smith, Deputy Director

Oceanside Museum of Art

704 Pier View Way

Oceanside, CA 92054

For Additional Information:

Contact, Tara Smith, Deputy Director at Engagement@oma-online.org or call (760) 435-3726.

Summer 2013 Exhibitions at Oceanside Museum of Art

Oceanside Museum of Art has four engaging and diverse exhibitions on view this Summer. From abstract paintings by Charles Arnoldi and Minimalist sculptures by Tony DeLap to multiple-narrative paintings by Ernest Silva and inventive sculptures by Jay Johnson, there is something for everyone in your family to connect with and learn more about visual culture. 

INTERSECTIONS: CHARLES ARNOLDI

On view through August 25, 2013

Untitled, 1996

Charles Arnoldi is one of the most significant contemporary abstract painters, sculptors and printmakers of our generation. Emerging out of the booming 1970s Los Angeles art scene, Arnoldi’s multi-hued paintings are experimentations in color, form and structure. Intersections present a sampling of Arnoldi’s seminal early stick paintings and chainsaw wood relief sculptures that brought him immediate acclaim in the early 1970s. Paired with selections from his recent Grids, Arcs, Chainsaw and Case Study series' this exhibition traces the evolution of Arnoldi's career over the last 40 years. Arnoldi’s works are featured in collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Metropolitan, and the Smithsonian, among others.

TONY DELAP: SELECTIONS FROM 50 YEARS 

On view through October 6, 2013

Slightly Cross, 2013

Southern California Minimalist Tony DeLap has sought to challenge conceptions of abstraction and illusion for over five decades.  Featuring a selection of sculptures, drawings, hybrids, paintings and photographs of noted site-specific sculptures, this exhibition provides a comprehensive look at this distinguished artist’s long career. Tony De Lap is recognized as one of the foundational figures in the rise of Minimalism and Optical Art (OpArt) on the West Coast in the 1960s and 70s and is a recipient of many prestigious awards including the National Endowment for the Arts highest award for painting. He has completed seven large-scale commissions for public sculpture in CA including The Floating Lady IV (1976) at the Los Angeles County Airport and The Big Wave (1983) in Santa Monica, CA.

 

VOLCANOS AND FULL MOONS: ERNEST SILVA

On view through September 22, 2013

Between Two Shadows, Deer on Raft, 2001

Recognized for his metaphoric imagery of deer, lighthouses, water, birds and figures, Silva derives his inspiration from a variety of sources: family photographs of his childhood in Rhode Island, vintage story book covers from the 1950s, popular culture and art history. Interested in the intersection between painting, sculpture and installation his exhibition reflects a combination of the three. Silva has been an active force not only in the San Diego/Southern California art community, but also on a national and international level. His recent projects have included an installation at the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico and he has a major long-term project called the Rain House at the New Children’s Museum in San Diego. 

 

LOOKING FOR THINGS: JAY JOHNSON

On view through September 15, 2013

 

I Keep Looking for Things, 2010

The diversity of Jay Johnson’s chosen media is paralleled in his constant exploration of new modes of expression that reflect his dry humor and inventive nature. Working in a wide variety of sculptural media including found and reclaimed objects, wood, metal, clay and paper, each of Johnson’s works hint at satirical short stores derived from his imagination and the world around him. Jay Johnson has played an active role in the San Diego art scene since the 1980s. A consummate craftsman, he is skilled in multiple media including wood, metal fabrication and large format printing. Whether designing in a figurative or symbolic approach, his work is thought-provoking and reflective of the world around him. His work has been exhibited and collected extensively throughout the United States. 

All four exhibitions were curated by Danielle Susalla Deery, the Director of Marketing / Curator at Oceanside Museum of Art.