Princeton artist fellowship applications, Nomadic Contemporary Art Museum

Princeton, NJ) -- The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University is now accepting applications from promising artists in all artistic disciplines for two opportunities, the Hodder Fellowship and the Princeton Arts Fellowship. Details and an online application are posted at arts.princeton.edu/fellowships. Applications are due by September 14, 2015.

Open to artists demonstrating “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts,” the Hodder Fellowship is awarded to several artists more “for promise than for performance,” enabling them to pursue an independent project for one academic year. No teaching is required. Most fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work. A stipend of $79,000 is offered to Hodder Fellows.

The Princeton Arts Fellowship, funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, enables two early-career artists whose achievements have been recognized for extraordinary promise to spend two consecutive academic years at Princeton University. Fellows teach one course each semester but may also take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Although the teaching load is light, the expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of the University community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year. The Princeton Arts Fellowship provides a salary of $79,000 for each of the two years.

Applications in both programs are open to international artists; U.S. citizenship is not required.

The Hodder Fellowship dates back to the 1940s and was historically awarded only to literary artists. Past recipients include the poet John Berryman (1950) and the critic R.P. Blackmur (1944), as well as novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2005) and Anthony Doerr (2003), whose novel All the Light We Cannot See won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, the Hodder is open to artists in all disciplines, and recent fellows have included playwrights, choreographers, filmmakers, and visual artists as well as writers.

The Princeton Arts Fellowship was launched in 2013. The inaugural fellows, composer/percussionist Jason Treuting and graphic designer Danielle Aubert, recently concluded their two-year fellowships. This fall, playwright Aaron Landsman and writer Hanna Pylväinen will begin their second fellowship year while documentary filmmaker Pacho Velez and choreographer/director Pavel Zuštiak arrive on campus to begin their fellowships.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to learn more about the fellowships, current and past fellows, and the application process at arts.princeton.edu/fellowships.
The Lewis Center for the Arts encompasses Princeton University's academic programs in creative writing, dance, theater, and visual arts, as well as the interdisciplinary Princeton Atelier. The Center represents a major initiative of the University to fully embrace the arts as an essential part of the educational experience for all who study and teach at Princeton. Over 100 diverse public performances, exhibitions, readings, screenings and lectures are offered each year, most of them free or at a nominal ticket price. The programs of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts are made possible through the generous support of many alumni and other donors. For more information about the Lewis Center for the Arts, including a complete list of supporters, please visit arts.princeton.edu.

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Nomadic Contemporary Art Museum

Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) July 23, 2015

Black Cube is an alternative to the traditional ‘white cube’ museum or gallery experience. Through programs of roving pop-up exhibitions, Black Cube brings art to unexpected places. These might be unfamiliar spaces like abandoned grocery stores, or common spaces such as a downtown parking lot. These unusual exhibition sites become places of discovery for both the casual passer-by and the attentive art visitor.

Founded by artist and philanthropist, Laura Merage and established by the David and Laura Merage Foundation, the institution upholds the belief that art is an essential part of a vibrant, just, and healthy society. All of Black Cube’s programs start with artists’ ideas and the challenge to connect those ideas to new spaces and new audiences.

"The last two decades have seen an amazing diversification of the museum as a place for exhibiting art, telling histories, and facilitating new productions. Black Cube is a new museum model – it’s nomadic and all projects start with a deep commitment to an individual artist by inviting them to expand their practice, and consider engaging new audiences that may not seek out art experiences on their own," said Cortney L. Stell, Black Cube Executive Director and Chief Curator.

All Black Cube artists will be fellows, participating in the Artist Development Program where they will receive guidance and support for professional development. Artist fellows will each produce a pop-up art exhibition and will create affordable art items (known as Art Objects) that are offered for sale to the public at the pop-up sites and online in the Black Cube Shop.

Black Cube will host its official launch event on September 30 at the Trading Post at Red Rocks featuring its first artist fellow, Desirèe Holman (Oakland, California). Desirèe is internationally known for her multi-sensory work which illuminate ideas of identity, knowledge, and the complexities of the human psyche. This live cinema experience will include a projection on the famous rocks of Red Rocks in conjunction with a live performance.

Desirèe Holman will be joined by Chad Person from Albuquerque, NM, and Derrick Velasquez from Denver, CO to form the first group of Black Cube fellows. This means that in addition to Desiree’s launch event, the public can expect two more pop-up exhibitions in 2015 with museum shops in toe.

About Black Cube
Black Cube is a nonprofit, nomadic contemporary art museum. Black Cube functions as an innovative, unconventional organization pursuing the most effective ways to engage new audiences while supporting artists’ sustainability. Without the traditional boundaries of a physical building, Black Cube is experienced primarily through pop-up art experiences and shops conceived by our artist fellows. Black Cube was founded by artist and philanthropist, Laura Merage. Find out more at the Black Cube website which is set to launch August 2015: