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.
