GALVANIZE: Next week at WPA: Deadlines, Extensions, & Conversations

Subject: Next week at WPA: Deadlines, Extensions, & Conversations

Wherewithal deadline, Open Call extension, Colby Chamberlain & Misha Ilin in conversation

Deadline Approaching! Applications Due: Tuesday, November 14 at 11:59pm EST $7,500 Project & Presentation Grants $5,000 Research Grants The application for the next cycle of Wherewithal Grants closes next week and is open to all DC area artists. Artists may apply for support in areas of Project & Presentation and Research depending on which best supports your practice at this time. $7,500 Project & Presentation Grants support ongoing or new projects that embrace unconventional or D.I.Y. values and will be presented publicly in the DC-area during the grant period. Project & Presentation grants are intended to directly support artists presenting work in spaces beyond commercial galleries, museums, or established non-profit art spaces. $5,000 Research Grants are for DC-area artists to further their practices through ideation, research, and experimentation. Grant funds compensate you for your intellectual labor, support payment for other artists and thinkers for their time and contributions, and other research-related expenses. Applications will be reviewed by an independent panel of artists and arts professionals with up to 10 grants awarded. The grant period is from January–December 2024. DETAILS & APPLICATION HERE WPA's 2024 Open Call for One-Night Events Deadline *EXTENDED* to Tuesday, November 21 Open Call: Requests for Proposals We are currently welcoming proposals for one-night only events that will be presented in different locations around DC. DC-area artists are invited to imagine programs that will challenge WPA towards new unimagined directions for future project development in response to the question: "Where should we start?" Your program can respond to this question in any way that interests you and supports your research. The program you propose may take any form, including: film screening, workshop, conversation, performance, book presentation, and beyond. As this call is designed for anyone from the DC-area to apply, so should your event be designed for anyone from the DC-area to attend. While proposals for virtual events are not accepted, hybrid events are welcome. We will produce two (2) Open Call programs this season, in February and April 2024 respectively. Each presentation will receive a budget of $3,500. The deadline has been extended by one week to Tuesday, November 21 at 11:59pm. DETAILS & APPLICATION HERE meta-meta: Conversation with Colby Chamberlain Friday, November 17 from 7-8pm As part of Misha Ilin's meta-meta exhibition, Ilin and scholar Colby Chamberlain host a conversation that will contextualize the artist's instruction-based practice with its historical precedents. They will discuss Ilin's 65 instructions that are contained within our newly published book, meta-meta: book of instructions —now available to order! Their conversation will focus on parallels between Fluxus founder George Maciunas's charts and Ilin's instruction table. Maciunus and Ilin both utilize design aesthetics and advance a structured categorization of instruction art forms—including word and graphic scores, manuals, and scripts. Objects and drawings created to animate this discussion will become part of the meta-meta exhibition, which has been extended to stay on view until December 9 at WPA's Project Space (2124 8th St NW, Washington, DC). About the Participants Colby Chamberlain (he/him) is faculty in residence at the Cleveland Institute of Art and previously taught art history at the Cooper Union and Columbia University. His scholarship has appeared in publications including ARTMargins, Art Journal, caa.reviews, Grey Room, and October, and he contributes frequently to Artforum as a critic. His book Fluxus Administration is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. RSVP HERE meta-meta: book of instructions by Misha Ilin (WPA 2023) - NOW IN STOCK ORDER THE META-META BOOK HERE About WPA ART THAT BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER through collaboration, experimentation, and advocacy Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is a platform for collaborative research and project development, organized by artists.  All WPA projects are anchored by a central question that guides ongoing collaboration and experimentation through residencies organized across three stages of development, collectively referred to as Project as Practice. The three stages of Project as Practice include: Research & Development (R&D); Presentation & Publication (P&P); Iteration & Expansion (I&E).  In addition to Project as Practice residencies, we provide exclusive opportunities for DC-area artists in two program areas that support experimentation with new project ideas and provide dedicated financial support for project research and presentations: Open Call: Request for Proposals for Artists Wherewithal: Research + Project & Presentation Grants Find us on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Supporters WPA is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Hickok Cole; National Endowment for the Arts; William S. Paley Foundation; Greater Washington Community Foundation; Goethe-Institut; Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (EHTF); Eaton Workshop; Terra Foundation for American Art; The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation; JBG SMITH; Willkie Farr & Gallagher; Squire Patton Boggs; Brookfield Properties; DAVIS Construction; and many other generous foundations, corporations, and individuals. WPA is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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