WAVE HILL ARTIST APPLICATION GUIDELINES
Sunroom Project Space Program
DEADLINE 4:30pm on May 11, 2007

Wave Hill’s Visual Arts Program presents the work of contemporary artists who engage in a dialogue with nature, culture and site. New and existing works are exhibited through the Sunroom Project Space Program, Glyndor Gallery, and generated@wavehill. Wave Hill is a public garden and cultural center that is dedicated to celebrating the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscapes, preserving its magnificent views and exploring human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts. Through the sciences and the arts, Wave Hill, uses its 28 acres of gardens and woodlands overlooking the Hudson River as both a laboratory and a gallery. Established programs in Horticulture, Environmental Education, Woodland Management and the Arts offer workshops and presentations to a broad-based audience of school children, families, adults, and senior citizens. Over 100,000 visitors enjoy Wave Hill throughout the year.

Sunroom Project Space Program is a venue for New York area emerging artists to develop a special project or new body of work to exhibit in one of the two windowed sunrooms on the ground floor of Glyndor House. Five artists will be selected for solo exhibitions in the spring and fall of 2008. Work in all media will be considered and artists are encouraged to experiment with the parameters of traditional display and exhibition formats. The selected artists will have between 6 and 12 months to develop their ideas and to create new work for the project. The installation period is two days for most slots so the project needs to be installed and de-installed quickly. A meet-the-artist gallery talk will be scheduled for each artist. The selected artists will receive an honorarium of $1,500.

The sunroom and sun porch of Glyndor House are both approximately 16’ square and 10.5’ in height. The white sunroom room has very hard plaster walls, with pairs of arched windows on two sides, and arched glass doors that open to the sun porch, the fourth wall has a door to the other galleries. There is a brown ceramic tile floor. The sun porch has windows on two sides with two brick walls, a stone floor, and skylights. This room is only available for the first period in September. Both rooms have magnificent natural light and cannot be completely darkened for video projection.

Proposed Exhibition Periods: March 2 – April 13, April 17 – May 28, September 13 – October 15, October 18 - December 16, 2008

Eligibility: Open to emerging artists with a record of solid achievement and potential, for whom this opportunity might contribute to professional advancement; and who are not represented by a commercial gallery, not student, and have not previously shown at Wave Hill. Because we encourage artists to spend time at Wave Hill developing their ideas, artists should live in a 50-mile radius of the Bronx.

Application Process: Applications with initial concepts are due on May 11. At this point, Wave Hill is more interested in your approach to working there and how you would like to use the space than the actual outcome of the project. A jury of three artists who have exhibited at Wave Hill will review the submissions and recommend a short list for the curators to meet here or in the artists’ studios. The curators will balance approaches and schedules to make a final selection. Decisions will be made by the end of August, 2007, and all artists will be contacted at that time.

Interested artists are strongly encouraged to visit Wave Hill before submitting an application. Information sessions with the curator will be held on Sunday April 29 at 12:30. Currently the work of Peter Gerakaris is on view until April 15, and Pedro-Cruz Castro’s exhibition opens on April 20. The sunroom will be closed from April 14-19.

Sunroom Project Space Submission Deadline:
May 11, 2007 must be received by 4:30pm
Applications may be submitted via mail, email, or in person.
Click here for application form, guidelines, and photographs of past exhibits.