Broadway Stages’ Arts Residency Award @ Kingsland Wildflowers

Open Call for a site-specific installation that will remain on view on the Upper Meadow of the Kingsland Wildflowers rooftop community center throughout the entire outdoor season of 2023. 

The installation should be non-intrusive, focus on sustainability, reflect on nature, and take into consideration the mission and vision of the WE ARE NATURE series and the surrounding environment on and around the Kingland Wildlflowers rooftops, and reflect this season’s theme. 

Submission Deadline: April 10th, 2023

Winner Announced: May 

Installation: Early June 

Opening Night: Solstice event, June 24th (Saturday)

Takedown: Last week of October

Disciplines:

Sculpture, installation, mixed-media

Financial Support:

The award winner receives $1500 for artist fees, travel costs, art supplies, and all other production expenses. 

Artist Contribution:

We expect the awardee to install the piece in the first two weeks of June and attend the season-opening event (June 24th) where we will present their work to our audiences. The artist is fully responsible for installing and de-installing their work within the noted timeframes. We prefer that the artist is NY (or TriState Area) based. 

Residency Period:

June - October 2023

Season's Title + Theme:

WE ARE NATURE: Rising and Falling (2023)

This fourth iteration of NOoSPHERE Arts’ annual rooftop series explores the theme of Nature’s Cycles:

A cycle is an interval of time during which a characteristic event occurs, often repeated regularly or in a sequence of events. There are cycles in everything, and cycles affect one another. The study of cycles increases our philosophical and metaphysical understanding, helping us to discern structure, order, and pattern and to learn that there is balance. It can also help our emotional states by encouraging us to live a life of detachment, knowing that everything in life will ebb and flow.  

“The fundamental dilemma underlying systemic problems is the illusion that unlimited growth is possible on a finite planet. We need to teach our children, our students, and our corporate and political leaders the fundamental facts of life – that one species' waste is another species' food; that matter cycles continually through the web of life; that the energy driving the ecological cycles flows from the sun; that diversity assures resilience; and, that life, from its beginning more than three billion years ago, did not take over the planet by combat but by networking.” (Fritjof Capra)

Presented by NOoSPHERE Arts as part of the annual WE ARE NATURE Rooftop Series / @noospherearts