The John Michael Kohler Arts Center invites you to submit a proposal for a project that shares a personal response to one or more artworks on the first floor of the Art Preserve. Accepted proposals will be exhibited at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
Donor Name: John Michael Kohler Arts Center
State: Wisconsin
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/16/2022
Size of the Grant: $600
Details:
Every visitor to the Art Preserve, the home of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s collection of artist-built environments, connects to the work in a different way. Sharing these responses fosters new understandings about the collection, each other, and ourselves. The Arts Center invites makers of all mediums to submit proposals for work that makes tangible their response to the first floor of the Art Preserve.
Eligibility Criteria
- The call is open to any Wisconsin resident or member of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC).
- The proposed artwork should be a visual, auditory, movement-based, and/or written response to questions and ideas about one or more artworks from the Art Preserve’s first floor. If you have an idea for a response that does not fit within these parameters, please reach out to discuss it with Arts Center staff before submitting your proposal.
- Entries must include a minimum of two (2) high-resolution images or video or audio files of examples of the artist’s previous work.
- The proposed artwork must be created by the submitting artist(s).
- Selection is a multistep process and will happen in rounds.
- Semifinalist artists will be notified via email and begin a conversation with Arts Center staff to finalize their submission.
- Finalists will be notified to commence their work by June 3, 2022.
- Finalists must ship or deliver (physically or digitally) work to the Arts Center by or before August 29, 2022. Depending on the artwork, artists may be asked to submit work digitally for printing by JMKAC.
- An honorarium of $600 will be provided to creators of accepted proposals in two installments: $450 after the delivery of their completed, proposed artwork and $150 after a public demonstration or engagement at the Arts Center or Art Preserve on a date and time to be mutually agreed upon by the Arts Center and the artist(s). One roundtrip mileage between the artist(s) starting point and the Arts Center will also be reimbursed for the date of the demonstration or engagement at a maximum of $400.
- If a group of artists submits together and their proposal is accepted, they will share the honorarium.
- Entries may be either two or three dimensional. Planned dimensions and display needs must be clearly expressed in the proposal. Final scale of artwork may be dependent on gallery limitations based on other areas of the exhibition.
- Proposal acceptance is at the discretion of Arts Center staff.
- The Arts Center is not able to insure the works of art created for this exhibition from the accepted proposals. The Arts Center will attempt to place any works of art that are delicate under vitrines. All works of art will be handled with care by trained staff.
- The artist must be able to deliver the artwork from the accepted proposal to the Arts Center by Monday, August 29, 2022.
- There is no entry fee to participate in this exhibition.
- Artwork pick-up will be in February 2023, dates TBD.
- More details on artwork delivery and pickup will be provided to artists whose proposal is selected for inclusion in the exhibition.
- If a proposal is accepted for an out-of-state artist who is a member of JMKAC, the artist will receive a maximum round trip mileage reimbursement of $400 to travel to the Arts Center for their public workshop or demonstration on a date and time to be mutually agreed upon by the Arts Center and the artist(s).
- Exhibition: October 2022–February 2023, exact dates TBD
For more information, visit JMKAC.
