2010 WPA PUBLIC ART RESIDENCY PROGRAM

2010 WPA PUBLIC ART RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Deadline: Friday, April 23, 2010  
Public Talk: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 4-6PM at the Corcoran Gallery of Art Auditorium

Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCAAH) are 
partnering with Socrates Sculpture Park (SSP, the Park) in Long Island City, NY to create a Public Art 
Residency (PAR) Program  to instruct and inform artists about practical and conceptual issues related to 
the creation of public art. Through this program, artists will learn the fundamentals of developing a 
proposal for public art work, identifying sources for materials and funding of projects, and access a 
support network for technical assistance and future opportunities related to creating and presenting art 
in the public realm. 
 
In this pilot program, one artist who resides in the District of Columbia will be selected to receive a two
month paid residency and exhibition opportunity at Socrates Sculpture Park.  The work will be 
exhibited under SSP's "Open Space" program from September 12, 2010 to November 2010 
(end/deinstallation date to be determined and agreed upon by the artist and SSP).  Once the exhibit has 
ended, the artist  will re-fabricate or re-install, in Washington, DC, the work made through the 
residency. The artist will be required to give a public presentation about his or her residency experience 
and may also be asked to advise WPA and/or DCCAH on other public art initiatives. 


To learn more about the Park, please visit their website:  www.socratessculpturepark.org. 


This opportunity is open to all artists who live in the District of Columbia. Artists who are enrolled in a 
school, college or university at the time of the residency (May - September 2010) are not eligible for the 
PAR Program.


Artists interested in this opportunity are asked to submit a proposal for an artwork to be created and 
exhibited at SSP.  Artists applying for this opportunity are strongly encouraged to visit SSP and/or 
attend the public talk by SSP Executive Director Alyson Baker at the Corcoran Gallery of Art  Auditorium on April 6, 2010 from 4-6pm before submitting their application. The auditorium is located 
at 500 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, DC.


click here to download the full call for artists and entry form>>


The 2010 WPA Public Art Residency Program is funded in part bythe DC Commision on the Arts & Humanities DC Creates! Public Art Program and made possible with assistance from Socrates Sculpture Park.