Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition

Description

In the first year of partnership with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program, the Thrive Grants will be issued as COVID-19 economic relief grants in the form of Oklahoma Visual Artists Emergency Grants. These grants will be issued in two rounds, awarding 80 grants in the amount of $1,000 per grant ($80,000 in total). The awardees must demonstrate that they are practicing artists and attest that they have experienced financial hardship due to the current economic crisis. Awardees will be selected through a lottery system and applicants may reapply in subsequent rounds if they are not selected.

As we do not want the grant application process to be a barrier, the application is simple and only gathers data to ensure that the applicant qualifies. Artists may demonstrate they are a practicing artist by providing a current CV, website, social media profiles, or other documentation that demonstrates they have been a practicing artist in the last year. To attest that applicants have been financially impacted, they will select descriptions from Financially Inconvenienced to Severe Financial Distress and provide a short written description of how they have been impacted, not to exceed 500 words. Staff will review applications to ensure they are complete and qualify. Each application is automatically assigned a number through Submittable. We will use an online number generator to select the funded applications in a lottery system. 

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for Oklahoma Visual Artists Emergency Grant funding, you must answer “Yes” to the following:

• I am working in the visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, social practice, performance, photography, textiles, ceramics, cross-disciplinary, public art).
• I am a self-identified artist residing in the state of Oklahoma.
• I have lived in Oklahoma for the past 12 months (beginning in September 2019 or earlier).
• I am a practicing artist able to demonstrate a sustained commitment to my practice, career, and public audience. *
• I am experiencing financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• I am 18 years of age or older.
• I can provide a W9 and Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). **

Due to funding limits and the anticipated number of applications, we ask to answer the following criteria honestly; if your work or financial well-being has not been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, please do not apply.

As this is primarily a need-based grant, all recipients will remain anonymous unless they choose to provide a statement for OVAC or The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts marketing.

*All applicants will be asked to include at least one of the following: a website, online portfolio, and/or artistically relevant social media, CV/Resume (no more than 2-pages long), artist statement, or bio as proof of recent artistic activity.

**This information will not be asked for until after the recipients are selected. 

The following is a list of eligible reasons for requesting the Oklahoma Visual Artists Emergency Grant. This includes, but is not limited to:

- Financial losses due to canceled events. Including, but not limited to:

• Exhibitions, commissions, screenings, art fairs
• Panels, speaking, teaching, and presentation opportunities

- Unrecoverable travel expenses related to creative work. This includes but is not limited to:

• Nonrefundable, prepaid transportation or lodging related to canceled conferences, convenings, or classes at which you were to present
• Artist Residencies

- Lost income for teaching artists whose classes have been canceled.

- Lost supplemental income because the industry in which you work has been shut down/limited hours and/or income due to the COVID-19 pandemic (ex. Service industry, retail, etc.)

- Loss of access to work due to childcare and school closures

Timeline

Round one (40 grants)

Application opens: October 15 

Application closes: November 17, 11:59 PM 

Recipients notified by Submittable: November 20 

W-9 and funding agreement returned to OVAC: November 23 

Funding dispersed: November 25 

Round two (40 grants)

Application opens: November 18 

Application closes: December 14, 11:59 PM 

Recipients notified by Submittable: December 19 

W-9 and funding agreement returned to OVAC: December 21 

Funding dispersed: December 23 

For more information, please visit OVAC's website here for frequently asked questions and other resources. For help from an OVAC staff member, please email any questions to grants@ovac-ok.org. 

There are 4 deadlines throughout the year. Applications are due by 11:59 pm on January 15, April 15, July 15 or October 15. 

Before submission, please review application form for eligibility. Eligible artists must be 21 years or older, non-student, Oklahoma residents.

Get additional details and see sample grant components here: https://www.ovac-ok.org/lists/Creative-Projects-Application-Example, https://06397876-69c0-4dd6-a0f7-c10a3bff9a1b.filesusr.com/ugd/8395fb_f043f549c9664e11af6904ba265c328c.pdf.

Each Creative Project Grant Application should include: 

__Filled in application form below

__Artist Resume

__Artist Statement

__10-15 Artwork samples (preferably jpegs) or URL for film/video  artwork with descriptions

__Artwork sample list 

__Sketches or concept drawing (optional)

The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition seeks proposals from Oklahoma artists 30 years of age and younger for Momentum 2021 Spotlight. Momentum is an interactive, multidisciplinary art event. Through Momentum Spotlight, artists receive honoraria and curatorial guidance on a new project or body of work that debuts at Momentum. In addition, there is a preview exhibition at 21c Museum Hotel with previous work from all three Spotlight Artists. New this year, we are adding an educational component to Spotlight, in which each artist will develop a lesson plan and discussion guide for teachers to spark conversations with their students.

MOMENTUM 2021

February-August 2021: Momentum Spotlight preview at 21c Museum Hotel in Oklahoma City, OK

March 3-27: Momentum at MAINSITE Contemporary Art Gallery in Norman, OK

April 2-23: Momentum at Living Arts in Tulsa, OK

ELIGIBILITY

• Artists must be 30 years of age or younger and must be residents of Oklahoma during the project period. Proposals must be for the creation of new works. Artists working in all visual media are eligible. Past Momentum Spotlight artists are not eligible. 
• Artists must be OVAC members to apply. Membership benefits include access to OVAC's annual Resource Guide, inclusion in OVAC's online Artist Gallery, discount for Artist Survival Kit (ASK) workshops, entry fees waived for OVAC opportunities, and more. Student memberships are $25 per year and individual memberships are $45 per year. Join OVAC today. 
• Artists must be available for installation and exhibition of work at both MAINSITE and Living Arts.

AWARD

The curators will select three artists who will each receive a $1,000 honorarium and studio visits with the curators. Artists will be highlighted in exhibition marketing.

 
TIMELINE

NEW! Oct 27, 6:00 pm: Momentum Alumni Q&A session via Zoom with 2018 Emerging Curator Bianca Martucci-Fink, and 2016 Spotlight Artist Gloria Shows. Learn about what it's like to be involved with Momentum and a few tips and tricks for your application. Click here to learn more.

Nov 19, 11:59 pm: Momentum Spotlight artist proposals due 

Dec 4: Momentum Spotlight artist applicants notified 

Dec 10 (tentative): Curators and Spotlight orientation at 5:30pm via Zoom 

January 9 (tentative): Studio visits with Spotlight artists 

Jan 14, 11:59 pm: Entry deadline for juried survey show

February (TBD date): Spotlight preview opens at 21c Museum Hotel in Oklahoma City

Feb 5: Juried survey show applicants notified

Feb 23: Spotlight installation at MAINSITE in Norman

March 29: Artwork pickup at MAINSITE in Norman

March 31: Spotlight installation at Living Arts in Tulsa

April 26: Artwork pick up at Living Arts in Tulsa

 
PROPOSALS MUST INCLUDE
 --Title and Description of the proposed project, no more than 400 words. The description should give as much information as possible within the word limit to explain the concept of the work and how you will complete it.
 --Artist Statement
 --Resume
 --5-10 images of past work and/or up to 5-minute sample of time-based artwork. Images must be jpegs. Please label with last name and number corresponding to the image list. (example: Smith01.jpg) Did you know OVAC offers a monthly Photography Studio for artists? Click here to learn more and sign up.
 --Image info including title, medium, year created and dimensions. Or, include a brief description of samples for time-based artwork.

OTHER DETAILS
OVAC is not responsible, at any time, for the loss, damage or theft of artwork. Artists are encouraged to carry their own insurance policies. Submission of artwork constitutes an agreement on the part of the artist to the conditions set forth in this prospectus and shall further include permission to reproduce work for publication. Selected artwork must come presentation ready (i.e. framed with wire or d-rings, ready to hang). Curators reserve the right to refuse works that differ from those submitted or are deemed not presentation-ready. Artists are responsible for delivery and post-event pick up of materials.

By submitting, artists agree to pick up their work from MAINSITE and deliver it to Living Arts for the second showing. OVAC will retain a 30% commission on all works sold at the event. Late or incomplete entries will not be accepted.

GUEST CURATOR
Pablo Barrera is Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s inaugural Curatorial Fellow. He is committed to creating strategies for formal and informal art education, especially raising awareness of Indigenous visual culture. Barrera was selected among NXTHVN Art Space's first cohort and served as graduate advisor for Yale University Art Gallery’s first student-led Native American Art exhibition. He has written on the impact of colonization on global art, including a co-authored chapter on traditional Korean architecture design (Springer International) and a paper on Indigenous art produced for exchange between Colonial Spain and Japan (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution). Barrera holds MAs from Yale University (History of Art) and Harvard University (Regional Studies: East Asia), a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (History of Art, minor in Anthropology), is a 2012 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, and a 2011 Fulbright Scholar (South Korea).

 
QUESTIONS
For questions, please contact Audrey Kominski, Programs and Events Coordinator, at 405-879-2400 Ext. 2 or audrey@ovac-ok.org.

MOMENTUM 2021: CALL FOR ARTISTS Oklahoma artists ages 30 and younger are invited to submit artwork to the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s (OVAC) interactive, multi-disciplinary art event Momentum. 

March 3-27: Momentum at MAINSITE Contemporary Art Gallery in Norman, OK

April 2-23: Momentum at Living Arts in Tulsa, OK

 ELIGIBILITY

• Momentum is open to artists ages 30 and younger who live and work in Oklahoma, or who have a permanent address in Oklahoma. Performance artists, filmmakers, installation, 2D, and 3D artists are encouraged. Submissions must have been created in the last two years and may not have been exhibited in previous Momentum exhibitions. 
• Applicants must be OVAC members to apply. Membership benefits include access to OVAC's annual Resource Guide, inclusion in OVAC's online Artist Gallery, discount for Artist Survival Kit (ASK) workshops, entry fees waived for OVAC opportunities, and more. Student memberships are $25 per year and individual memberships are $45 per year. Join OVAC today.
• You may submit up to 3 works in total. (i.e. if you submit one performance art proposal, you could also submit two paintings)
• You must be able to participate in both the MAINSITE and Living Arts exhibitions.

SUBMISSION

Submissions are accepted online only at www.ovac.submittable.com. Images must be jpegs. Please label uploaded documents with last name and number corresponding to the image list. (i.e. Smith01.jpg) The image list must include the title, medium, year created, and dimensions, or include a brief description of samples for time-based artwork. Please do not include spaces or special characters in file names.   

2D or 3D Art: You may submit up to two images of each piece. Please only submit a second image if you need to show an additional view or detail. Did you know OVAC holds a monthly Photography Studio service for artists? Learn more and sign up here.

Performance Art: Submit short written proposals describing the performance, including length and preferred performance space. Include any support materials to illustrate your proposal, such as images of past performances, sketches, videos, etc. Any special equipment must be provided by the artist.

Installations: Submit short written proposals for installations. Include any support materials to illustrate your proposal, such as images of past related artworks, sketches, etc. Any special equipment must be provided by the artist.

Film/Video: Submit a URL that links directly to the video. Include a brief written summary of the video including length. Short films are preferred. Artist must provide equipment for screening all film/video works. 

TIMELINE

Jan 14, 11:59 pm: Entry deadline for juried survey show

Feb 5: Juried survey show applicants notified, selected artist list posted at MomentumOklahoma.org

Feb 22: Artwork drop off at MAINSITE in Norman

March 29: Artwork pickup at MAINSITE in Norman

March 30: Artwork drop off at Living Arts in Tulsa

April 26: Artwork pick up at Living Arts in Tulsa

AWARDS 

Cash prizes selected by the curators. Additionally, a $100 Viewer’s Choice Award is voted by the audience.
 

OTHER DETAILS
OVAC is not responsible, at any time, for the loss, damage or theft of artwork. Artists are encouraged to carry their own insurance policies. Submission of artwork constitutes an agreement on the part of the artist to the conditions set forth in this prospectus and shall further include permission to reproduce work for publication. Selected artwork must come presentation ready (i.e. framed with wire or d-rings, ready to hang). Curators reserve the right to refuse works that differ from those submitted or are deemed not presentation-ready. Artists are responsible for delivery and post-event pick up of materials.

By submitting, artists agree to pick up their work from MAINSITE and deliver it to Living Arts for the second showing. OVAC will retain a 30% commission on all works sold at the event. Late or incomplete entries will not be accepted.
 

GUEST CURATOR
Pablo Barrera is Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s inaugural Curatorial Fellow. He is committed to creating strategies for formal and informal art education, especially raising awareness of Indigenous visual culture. Barrera was selected among NXTHVN Art Space's first cohort and served as graduate advisor for Yale University Art Gallery’s first student-led Native American Art exhibition. He has written on the impact of colonization on global art, including a co-authored chapter on traditional Korean architecture design (Springer International) and a paper on Indigenous art produced for exchange between Colonial Spain and Japan (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution). Barrera holds MAs from Yale University (History of Art) and Harvard University (Regional Studies: East Asia), a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (History of Art, minor in Anthropology), is a 2012 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, and a 2011 Fulbright Scholar (South Korea).
 

QUESTIONS
Questions are encouraged! Please contact Audrey Kominski, Programs and Events Coordinator (and Oklahoma artist under 30, just like you), at 405-879-2400 Ext. 2 or audrey@ovac-ok.org.

The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition seeks an Emerging Curator for Momentum 2021. Momentum is an interactive, multidisciplinary art event highlighting artists age 30 and younger in a juried exhibition.

The Emerging Curator will work in mentorship with the Guest Curator to select Spotlight projects, dialogue with artists as they create their artwork, write a curatorial statement, and assist with jurying the survey exhibition. Curators will work out appropriate meetings and communication with the artists to discuss their concepts and see progress. Curators are asked to write about the artists' work and speak about the work during the exhibition. The Emerging Curator will receive a $500 honorarium.

GUEST CURATOR
Pablo Barrera is Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s inaugural Curatorial Fellow. He is committed to creating strategies for formal and informal art education, especially raising awareness of Indigenous visual culture. Barrera was selected among NXTHVN Art Space's first cohort and served as graduate advisor for Yale University Art Gallery’s first student-led Native American Art exhibition. He has written on the impact of colonization on global art, including a co-authored chapter on traditional Korean architecture design (Springer International) and a paper on Indigenous art produced for exchange between Colonial Spain and Japan (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution). Barrera holds MAs from Yale University (History of Art) and Harvard University (Regional Studies: East Asia), a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (History of Art, minor in Anthropology), is a 2012 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, and a 2011 Fulbright Scholar (South Korea).

ELIGIBILITY

• Applicant curators must be Oklahoma residents at the time of application and through the installation of the exhibition. Previous curatorial experience is not required. Applicants may be of any age. Past Momentum Emerging Curators are not eligible but previous applicants are encouraged to resubmit. The Guest Curator will select the Emerging Curator based on promise as an active curator, passion for emerging artists, and compatibility with the Guest Curator.
• Applicant curators must be OVAC members to apply. Membership benefits include access to OVAC's annual Resource Guide, inclusion in OVAC's online Artist Gallery, discount for Artist Survival Kit (ASK) workshops, entry fees waived for OVAC opportunities, and more. Student memberships are $25 per year and individual memberships are $45 per year. Join OVAC today. 
• The Emerging Curator should be available during the preparation for and installation of the exhibition.
   

APPLICATION MATERIALS
Applications must include a letter that explains your interest in curatorial work and this project with a copy of your resume. Letters should outline your background with art and/or any curatorial projects. Discuss how you think this project will affect your future activities.

TIMELINE
NEW! Oct 27, 6:00 pm: Momentum Alumni Q&A session via Zoom with 2018 Emerging Curator Bianca Martucci-Fink, and 2016 Spotlight Artist Gloria Shows. Learn about what it's like to be involved with Momentum and a few tips and tricks for your application. Click here to learn more.

Nov 5, 11:59 pm: Emerging Curator applications due
Nov 13: Emerging Curator applicants notified
Nov 19, 11:59 pm: Momentum Spotlight artist proposals due
Dec 4: Momentum Spotlight artist applicants notified
Dec 10 (tentative): Curators and Spotlight orientation at 5:30pm via Zoom
January 9 (tentative): Studio visits with Spotlight artists
Jan 14, 11:59 pm: Entry deadline for juried survey show
Feb 5: Juried survey show applicants notified

Late or incomplete entries will not be accepted.

MOMENTUM 2021

March 3-27: Momentum at MAINSITE Contemporary Art Gallery in Norman, OK

April 2-23: Momentum at Living Arts in Tulsa, OK

QUESTIONS
Questions are encouraged! Please contact Audrey Kominski, Programs and Events Coordinator, at 405-879-2400 Ext. 2 or audrey@ovac-ok.org.