The Cartae Open School provides opportunities in the form of peer to peer and sel-directed learning, studio visits/workshops from ace’s exhibiting artists, screenings, artist talks, free access to all events that occur at ace during the Cartae year, and input from our sister Artist-Run Centres.
School starts 20th October 2016 and finishes on the 30th June 2017. There are 5 places available.
The inaugural 2014/15 Cartae participants, or Cartaers, were Emily Sirota, shimby, Shelley Vanderbyl, and Reza Rezai.
The 2015/16 Cartaers were Talia Shaaked, Madeline Rae, Carol Ann Bohrn, Beth Schellenberg, and Jaz Papadopoulos. Some images from their studio can be seen here.
The Cartae Open School | 2016 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Cartae is an alternative learning space for the exploration of contemporary art modes, ideas and criticality, and their applications to individual practices. It is a site of experimentation, dialogue, creation, and research. Cartae is an initiative of aceartinc.
The Cartae Open School provides opportunities in the form of peer to peer and sel-directed learning, studio visits/workshops from ace’s exhibiting artists, screenings, artist talks, free access to all events that occur at ace during the Cartae year, and input from our sister Artist-Run Centres.
School starts 20th October 2016 and finishes on the 30th June 2017. There are 5 places available.
Deadline for applications: 27 July 2016.
Activities
Each Cartaer will design, organize, and facilitate one workshop.
Cartaers are strongly encouraged to participate in all events provided for/by them including workshops, talks, screenings and talks, and studio visits from visiting artists.
aceartinc. already has several activities in place. However, Cartaers can program as many or as few activities as they wish (in consultation with the committee) in addition to their individual workshops.
Much of what you do will be self-directed- whether it is working on your practice in the shared studio, arranging studio visits for yourself, or choosing people to give artist talks.
Each Cartaer will attend a monthly meeting with the group and members of the Cartae Committee.
Additional communication with fellow members and/or committee members is the responsibility of each participant.
You are invited to contribute a short text to aceartinc.’s annual publication, PaperWait.
You will mount a year-end exhibition.
Logistics
Cartaers will share a 500 sqft studio from 20 October 2015 – June 2016.
The fee is $500 per student and contributes to the cost of the studio and artist fees.
To apply please submit the following:
- Why do you want to be part of Cartae? What will you bring to it? What do you hope to gain from it? 500 words.
- Describe a workshop you would run. Topics can be wide ranging and should encompass an element of skill-sharing. For example how best to make stop frame animation or the ways of applying post-modernist theory to your practice.
- Please provide a portfolio of up to 10 images and/or up to 2000 words.
- Artist statement up to 500 words.
Optional
- Please provide a visual or written description of the potential you see in the studio. We welcome imaginative interpretations of this.
Formatting
Email digital submissions in PDF format only to: [email protected].
Create two separate PDF files: one consisting of parts 1, 2, 4, and 5. The other file will consist of your support materials (part 3). Label the files with your full name. Put your name, email, and phone number at the top of every page.
Support Material
aceartinc. is MAC compatible only.
You may include up to 10 images presented as one PDF document.
Individual images must be jpegs 72dpi, 1024 x 768 pixel, 500k (.5 MB) RGB or SRGB only. Images that are larger than this will not be viewed.
No PowerPoint please.
Video may be submitted through a link to Vimeo, YouTube or any other easily accessed website. See below for additional clarification regarding each part of the submission package.
Audio is accepted in MP3, WAV or AIFF format only.
At this time we can only accept submissions in English.
