Move4ART

How will you summer in 2017?   Boston Harbor [Re]Creation initiatives has issued a call for an Artist In Residency , based on Spectacle Island; and a Temporary Sculpture Exhibition on Peddocks Island; hoping "to draw a diverse and skilled pool of artists who share a passion for parks."    The application deadline is Monday, 30 January 2017  @ 11:59 p.m. So if nature's your thing, you might want to consider attending the information session on Wednesday, 14 December 2014 from 5 to 7 p.m. Meanwhile, peruse Boston Harbor [Re]Creatiion's  website  for more details.  We'll forward the RFP via email to all artists in our network.  If you don't receive one, please forward email message with subject line "Boston Harbor Islands RFP" and we'll send it via reply.

      In early November, a group of six finalists were chosen to develop public art proposals for  the Dudley Square Municipal Center .    Since then, the artists have been hard at work on their proposals, and they will be presenting their conceptual designs to the selection committee on  January 20th and 21st  from  6-8pm   in the Community Room at Central Boston Elder Services.        Each short-listed artist will have twenty minutes to present their concepts for the Wall Design Project or the Outdoor Sculpture Project. The chosen artists will develop their designs for installation at the Dudley Municipal Center in November 2014.    Presentations are free and open to the public The Wall Design finalists are  Best Dressed Signs ,  Cyrille Conan , and  Napoleon Jones-Henderson .  The Outdoor Sculpture finalists are  Christopher Puzio ,  Madeline Weiner , and...

An interesting thing happened on the way back from NYC:  a phone call alerting me about an info session the following day. Despite the late notice, here's  what I learned: Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DNSI) has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) on behalf of "a broad range of community-based partners" to commission a public art installation in the Upham's Corner neighborhood. Although the "call" has gone out "for artists," facilitators of the info session stressed that the artist label is broadly defined to privilege: "local, cultural markets;"  "elevat[ing] the richness" that resides at the local level. Any and all "creative practitioners" are welcome to apply; especially those who have demonstrated leadership engaging communities in "participatory processes." Answering a few key questions in a three- to five-minute video is all that's required to start the application pro...