International InterMuseum Study Center

For over a quarter of a century, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center has brought New York’s vibrant visual arts scene to Staten Island. The Center has become the home for Staten Island’s and international emerging artists.

While remaining proud of its Staten Island heritage, the focus of The Newhouse Center’s exhibits extends well beyond its home borough. Past exhibits have highlighted a wide-ranging retrospective of portrait-painting by one of the founding lights of the Feminist Art movement, the freakish fun of a Coney Island sideshow with a serious look at a uniquely American art form: sideshow banner art, a visual and verbal debate on the primacy of color or drawing in contemporary painting. The Newhouse Center also remains committed to improving arts education in its community. It is located in New York City Public Schools Region 7, covering Staten Island and Western Brooklyn. In an era of funding cutbacks for the arts, Snug Harbor offers inner city and economically disadvantaged school children a place to experience the visual arts perhaps for the first time while nurturing the talent that lies within.

More recently, SHCC has evolved an international access to the arts education program. This program will offer visual arts beginning with a Museo Italiano in conjunction with the Italian Government. This will include extended loans ranging from classical antiquities from Pompeii to Renaissance and Baroque art from the Uffizi.

The visual arts program will encompass an inter-museum study center incorporating Smithsonian collections.
 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES – EXHIBITION SEASON 2011-2012

Founded in 1977, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art is a non-profit contemporary arts center located at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island. NCCA is dedicated to presenting local and international emerging and mid-career artists working in a variety of media.

Snug Harbor welcomes submissions from artists and collectives in the following format:

1. One-page Exhibition Proposal (max 1 page / 250 words)
2. Artist Statement (max 1 page / 250 words)
3. Resume
4. One disk of 20 images or 8.5 x 11” printouts of 20 images. Artists working
    in film/video may submit a DVD, but must include running times in list of works.
5. Image List (numbered 1-20 with title, date, materials, dimensions)

Snug Harbor welcomes curatorial submissions in the following format:

1. One-page Exhibition Proposal (max 1 page / 250 words)
2. Curator’s Resume including address, telephone and email contact
3. List of proposed artist(s) and their resume(s) or short narrative bio(s)
4. One disk of 10 to 20 images or 8.5 x 11” printouts of 10-20 images
5. Image List (numbered 1-20 with title, date, materials, dimensions)

Submit materials to:

   Exhibition Committee, Visual Arts Program
   NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
   Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
   1000 Richmond Terrace
   Staten Island NY 10301

Please do not contact the NCCA/Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art regarding submissions. The NCCA receives numerous submissions and proposals, but can only schedule a limited number of exhibitions each year. Generally, if the NCCA Exhibition Committee is interested, you will receive a direct response within 3 months. Unfortunately the staff cannot provide rejection letters for unsolicited materials nor can they offer feedback on each artist’s and/or curator’s submission. Emailed submissions or links to websites will not be reviewed.