SNUG HARBOR ARTIST STUDIO PROGRAM
Applications due: February 29, 2012
Snug Harbor Artist Studio Program offers emerging artists a supportive environment to explore their creative development for two months. Artists are provided a studio space on the ground floor of a two-story, nineteenth-century cottage. The unique opportunity is situated within 83 parkland acres of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden in the borough of Staten Island. The facility is connected to the art world of New York City, yet secluded from the urban center by a Harbor. Artists receive studio visits from guest artists and curators as part of a mentorship program. Participants are also encouraged to show recent work in the Cultural Center’s galleries. The Residency includes the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship that is funded by New York Community Trust, which provides support for talented, culturally diverse, economically disadvantaged young people who are seriously dedicated to a career in the arts. The Fellowship helps artists in all disciplines at the post-college level to make the transition from formal training to professional careers.
Applications due on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 for programs between April and November.
Program Description
- Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship $1,000
- 2 month studio space
- 2 month accommodation (bedroom/kitchen/laundry/WiFi)
- 4 week exhibition in Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art
- 1 public lecture
- 1 Open-Studio day
- Mentorship with guest curator/artist/museum professional
- One-Day Professional Development Workshop: marketing, fundraising, networking, small-business management.
- Access to Visual Art & Horticulture libraries.
Eligibility
- Must be a New York State resident
- Must have a Bachelors of Fine Art degree by the start of the Program. Students enrolled in an academic institution are not eligible.
- Must be age 30 and under
- Must not be represented by a commercial gallery
click to download 2012 Application
More info, please contact: newhouse@snug-harbor.org
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES – EXHIBITION SEASON 2013-2014
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.
PAST PROGRAMS
EAR TO THE EARTH
Celebrate John Cage’s 100th birthday with a concert by Joseph Kubera
8pm, Friday, October 21, 2011- Free to the Public
Staten Island composer Joseph Kubera will perform 100 x JOHN 1 as part of the eight day New York Festival of Sound, Media, and Ecology that highlights issues of the environment through sound and media. Kubera, a leading interpreter of contemporary music and longtime collaborator of John Cage, will perform 100 x John 1 – a soundscape modeled after the composer’s process of mixing sounds, in this case, those captured at Snug Harbor and its surroundings.
The unique performance in historic Main Hall, Building C will pay homage to the twentieth-century composer’s upcoming 100th Birthday. The special duet with piano will draw from a pool of recordings gathered earlier in September during a workshop at Snug Harbor. Kubera’s live arrangement will use John Cage’s indeterminacy method to create a sonic portrait of life-force of New York City.
Location: 1000 Richmond Terrace, Main Hall, Bldg C, Staten Island, NY.
For more information about the concert, contact Ear to the Earth at: emfproductions@emf.org, or call (888) 749-9998.
Workshop
Ear to the Earth: Soundscape Workshop
2:00pm-6:00pm Saturday, September 10, 2011
Free (space limited to 10)
Sign Up: field.recording.workshops@gmail.com
Organized by Electronic Music Foundation
Hosted by Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
New York Soundscape field recording: Heather Dewey Hagborg will lead workshop about listening to the environment, identifying soundmarks, and technical issues about field recording. Workshop includes field recording first hand to mine for unique sounds. Recordings will later be used for a special concert by Staten-Island resident and contemporary pianist Joe Kubera to create an improvisatory performance on October 21, 2011 at Snug Harbor as part of the Ear to the Earth: New York Soundscape Festival.
Info: www.eartotheearth.org
Artist Talk
The Forgotten History of Staten Island
3:00pm, Saturday, September 17, 2011
Visitor Center, Bldg C
Ed Weiss will preview his upcoming work The Forgotten History of Staten Island, a month long celebration of real and imagined historical events told through the eyes of an invented persona, Dr. D. I. Kniebocker Staten Island’s self-described greatest historian. The fictional doctor will give a reading by the North gate, the site that inspired Herman Melville’s greatest novel Moby Dick. This will be followed by an artist’s talk and exhibition of paintings created for the project in Snug Harbor’s oldest building, Main Hall, Building C. The artist will discuss his paintings, research and the meaning of forgotten histories.
The Forgotten History of Staten Island is made possible by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island.
Workshop
Paul Moakley: Documentary Photography
2:00pm, Saturday, September 24, 2011
Sign Up (space limited to 15): newhouse@snug-harbor.org
Visitor Center, Bldg C
As part of the Vir Fidelis exhibition, Paul Moakley will lead a workshop on documentary photography.
Moakley is a photographer, curator and editor. He lives and works at the Alice Austen House Museum, a seventeenth-century cottage on the East shore of Staten Island. Moakley is currently the Deputy Photo Editor at TIME and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited at Rutgers University, Wagner College and El Parque Cultural del Caribe in Columbia.
Noon-5:00pm, Saturday, September 24, 2011
Visitor Center, Bldg C
Join citizens across the US as museums and cultural centers open their doors for Free to the public. Snug Harbor Cultural Center is a proud Smithsonian Affiliate.
Info: Smithsonian Museum Day
Public Program, Music, Workshops
El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
10:00am-5:00pm, Sunday, October 30, 2011
Visitor Center, Bldg C
Organized by The New York State Institute on Disability and Irma Bohórquez-Geisler
Hosted by Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
All day joyful Mexican festival of music, art, dance, food, craft workshops and bi-lingual
tours that commemorate loved ones, of all ethnic origins, who have passed away.
Info: irma621@yahoo.com
Image: José Guadalupe Posada, Gran Fandango y Francachela de Todas las Calaveras (Happy Dance and Wild Party of All the Skeletons) (ca. 1910). Type metal engraving. Courtesy: Museo José Guadalupe Posada.
3pm, Saturday, March 12, 2011
How to Live as One Race
A dialogue with Allecrop Trebor Nod, an alien visitor from outer space, and special guest Dr. Michael Byrd, an evolutionary biology at Harvard University. This program is part of the Don Porcella: Cave Dwellers exhibition on view in the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art through April 3.
2pm Saturday, January 8, 2011
Artist Talk, Screening and Workshop: Gayil Nalls
Nalls will speak about her career, screen a documentary on World Sensorium project, discuss a 1990 public sculpture installation at Snug Harbor followed by an olfactory meditation workshop led by the Director of the Museum of Meditation, Washington DC. Click for more info.
2010 PUBLIC PROGRAMS
11am, Saturday, December 11, 2011
Exhibition Workshop: Victorian Silhouette Portraits
Discover a favorite nineteenth century past time and create a Victorian portrait. Silhouettes make great gifts for loved ones. Includes
tour of Wick & Stick exhibit, materials and portrait workshop.
11am, Saturday, December 8, 2011
Exhibition Workshop: Animal Sculptures
Create woodland creatures and learn about the ecosystem. Animals make great ornaments and decorations. Workshop includes tour of Don Porcella: Cave Dwellers exhibit, materials and animal-craft workshop. Click for more info.
7pm, Tuesday, February 23
Sneak Peek at FreshKills Park Master Plan
The Freshkills Park team presented Trash to Treasure on February 23rd, a public program to compliment the exhibition HOPE-A-HOLIC. The program included a history of Freshkills and a presentation about the Park’s master plan and current projects. Following the Freshkills program, a workshop was given by the Staten Island Compost Project outlining the simple steps involved in composting at home. The HOPE-A-HOLIC exhibition explores utopian ideas through 25 works of art and is on view thought June 27 in the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art.
OPEN-CALL EXHIBITION
Applications Due: Monday, May 9, 2011
The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art invites artists working in all disciplines to submit applications for ICED an exhibition that explores the use of seductive materials and projects with a reductive aesthetic, such as monochromes, minimalist gestures, feats of endurance or monolithic subjects. The exhibition will be presented during Summer 2011 in two of the Center’s galleries.
Eligibility: Open to all artists 18 and over. All work must ready to display. Work must be original and completed in the last five years. Currently enrolled students are not eligible.
Applications: Artist may submit 3 images for consideration. There are no fees to apply. Applications may be mailed, dropped off or sent via email. Digital (emailed) entries preferred. Images may be submitted as either jpg files on a disk, 8.5x11” color print outs or emailed as attachments. All jpg image files must be less than 1000x1000 pixels and 72dpi. Videos/films/performance should be submitted as either a DVD or a link to a website with video.
Notification: Artists will receive notification by Monday, May 16. If selected, art must be delivered by Monday, June 6. Each artist will receive an honorarium, a batch of invitation postcards in addition to an electronic file to send an eBlast of their own.
ALL APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY: Monday, May 9, 2011.
Artists are encouraged to mail applications one week prior to the deadline. A May 9 postmark will be accepted. Artists may also drop off applications Wednesday through Sunday Noon to 5pm at Main Hall, Building C, see address below.
CLICK to download Application as PDF.
Email applications to: newhouse@snug-harbor.org
Mailed applications:
ICED jury / Visual Arts Program
SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER
1000 Richmond Terrace, Bldg P
Staten Island, NY 10301
Drop Off applications:
ICED jury / Visual Arts Program
SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER
1000 Richmond Terrace, Bldg C
Staten Island, NY 10301