Call for Proposals
Artspace is thrilled to announce that we are now accepting proposals for our Maker Space Mural Project!
Artspace invites Indigenous artists from Turtle Island to submit proposals for a mural in our Maker Space, to be installed between August 12 and August 25, 2024. This call is open to individual artists (emerging and established), as well as artist teams and collectives.
This call aims to work with an Indigenous artist(s) to install a semi-permanent mural at Artspace that creates visual recognition and a daily reminder that we operate on Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg Territory. Our intention with this project is to honor this truth, and further our commitment to solidarity with Indigenous peoples, decolonization, and building a more just future on this land.
Submission Deadline: Friday, June 21, 5 PM EST.
Project Background and Vision
Artspace is a charitable, non-profit, artist-run centre that supports artists in presenting new work and acts as a regional hub for professional development in the arts community. Our exhibitions and public programming foster a stronger appreciation for Canadian contemporary art and serve as a knowledge-building and community-building platform for artists and art appreciators.
In 2022, Artspace received a Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to expand our Media Lab into a more substantial and accessible Maker Space! Today it is a welcoming, low-barrier space where community members access a broad range of equipment, tools, and materials for art-making, creative exploration, and relationship-building.
As the Maker Space enters its second year of operation, we are eager to grow and develop the space to ensure it reflects the needs, experiences, and perspectives of artists and art appreciators in our community. As we celebrate Artspace’s 50th year, we are also diving deep into questions of whose voices, art, and perspectives are underrepresented in Artspace’s history, and whose voices are important to center now, and in years to come. In this spirit, the Maker Space Mural project offers a unique opportunity to bring new meaning, life, and color, and meaning to a lively but relatively plainly painted space.
This project invites thoughtful, dynamic, and innovative proposals grounded in the recognition and honouring of place, revolving around themes of storytelling, the land, relationships, and community. Additionally, we welcome proposals that expand upon these criteria. We look forward to a range of approaches and interpretations.
Materials, Paint, & Colour Options
Paint and painting supplies will be provided by Artspace. The successful candidate will paint directly onto a series of birch plywood panels, to be mounted into position on the wall. This will enable Artspace to preserve, care for, and relocate the work in the future if needed.
Artists will be asked to choose from three limited colour palettes, from which they may choose 3 colours to use in their design, in addition to black and white.
The limited colour palette will provide a unique challenge to the artist, while ensuring the finished work compliments the aesthetic of the space, and Artspace branding.
Click here to view the 3 pre-selected colour palettes for this project.
Location
The artist is invited to complete the work on panels in the main Gallery, which will then be mounted along the top of the walls in the Maker Space. We are located at 378 Aylmer St N in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), Ontario.
The site measures 34 inches tall, by 32 feet wide.
