Call for Art: Community Care: Stewarding your Neighborhood
The Lower East Side Ecology Center is working with the Lower Eastside Girls Club to host Community Care: Stewarding your Neighborhood, a 2-month exhibition featuring art on the theme of environmental stewardship to inspire New Yorkers to play a role in caring for their local environment.
We invite artists to submit their work for consideration. Entries should reflect the artist’s interpretation of the theme:
Environmental stewardship refers to the work of individuals and communities to care for and support their local environment. The Lower East Side has a rich history of neighbors caring for and improving their landscape through the nurturing of community gardens, transforming vacant lots into botanical wonderlands, creating vibrant pockets in street tree pits, and so much more. By nurturing our local environmental spaces there is not only an enrichment of biodiversity and wildlife, but a cultivation of health and well-being for our human neighbors too.
Exhibition Space: Lower Eastside Girls Club Gallery, 402 E 8th St, New York, NY 10009
Work Media: All mediums are welcome: sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, poetry, data visualization, science-driven art, mixed media, etc. Artists are encouraged to take a broad and creative approach to the theme.
Entry Requirements:
In a single pdf document (this file should be no larger than 5 MB) please include the following:
- Artist statement/biography (250 words max)
- Up to 3 pieces of work for consideration. Each piece of work submitted should include:
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- Title
- Medium of work
- Dimensions of work and anything necessary for installation
- One high quality image of the actual, original artwork. Sculptural submissions can be shared using a photomosaic.
Send submission materials to info@lesecologycenter.org with “Community Care 2024 – YOUR NAME” in the subject line. Deadline to submit work: June 30, 2024.
Additional Information:
- Selected artists will receive a $150 award.
- 2D work must be no larger than 60” tall or wide and should weigh no more than 25 lbs.
- 3D work must be no larger than 60” tall and 20” deep, and should weigh no more than 50 lbs.
- All work must be ready for installation. For larger pieces, we may ask the artist to assist with installation.
- All work must be hand delivered during specified installation dates/times, we are not able to accept shipped artwork.
- Artwork will be selected by a committee of environmental stewards and artists who will be looking for creativity, interpretation of the theme, quality of art, and overall design.
- Please note that the gallery space is an active lobby with visitors of all ages coming in and out of the space.
Important Dates:
- Deadline to submit work: June 30, 2024
- Artwork selection notification: July 15, 2024
- Work must be dropped off during show installation: Exact dates and times TBD, but will take place during the week of August 19, 2024
- Show Duration: September 6 – November 27, 2024
- Opening reception: September 6, 2024
- Closing reception and artist talk: November 16, 2024
- Work must be picked up during show de-installation: Exact dates and times TBD, but will take place during the week of December 2, 2024
We are grateful for the grant support of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for this initiative.