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Deadline for submissions:
Monday, March 01, 2010
Call for Art: FIGMENT Sculpture Garden / Minigolf Course
FIGMENT
(New York NY)
In June 2007, a group of New Yorkers came together for a new kind of arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor--FIGMENT, a free event in which everyone is invited to participate and collaborate to create artwork and build community. By 2009, FIGMENT had grown to a 3-day event, in which over 13,000 participants came to interact and engage with over 400 participatory arts projects. FIGMENT also presented several summer-long projects, including an 18-hole mini golf course designed by artists and a 16-piece large-scale interactive sculpture garden, which were enjoyed by an estimated 40,000 people from June through October.
FIGMENT is now accepting proposals until March 1 for its summer-long exhibitions on New York’s Governors Island: the FIGMENT Sculpture Garden and Mini Golf Course.
FIGMENT Sculpture Garden – FIGMENT plans to host an exhibition of interactive sculpture on Governors Island for the second year in a row, and invites your submissions of artwork. Artists are welcome to submit both existing pieces and proposals for new pieces, but all work must be interactive in some way. Submission deadline: March 1.
More details at http://figmentproject.org/sculpturegarden.
FIGMENT Minigolf – Artists are invited to submit designs for the highly successful FIGMENT Minigolf Course, which has appeared on Governors Island in 2008 and 2009, and has entertained tens of thousands of visitors to the island. Submission deadline: March 1. More details at http://figmentproject.org/minigolf.
Website: http://figmentproject.org
Sponsoring Organization
FIGMENT
10 south street
Governor's Island
New York, NY 10004
info@figmentproject.org
figmentproject.org
FIGMENT is a forum for the creation and display of participatory and interactive art by emerging artists across disciplines. FIGMENT began in July 2007 as a free, one-day participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor with over 2,600 participants. Since then, FIGMENT has grown significantly each year—in number of projects, duration, participants, volunteers, fundraising capability, exhibitions, locations, overall level of commitment and participation, and public support.
FIGMENT’s vision for art looks past the white-walled galleries and into the realm of participation. Art is not just something that you stand still and quietly look at – it is something you participate in. You touch it, smell it, climb it, write on it, talk to it, dance with it, play with it, learn from it… Interactive art creates a dynamic collaboration between the artist, the audience and their environment.
FIGMENT’s goal is to advance social and personal transformation through creativity, in the form of free participatory arts events and exhibitions. FIGMENT is uninterrupted by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. Selling or advertising goods or services is not permitted. Neither our artists nor our planners and staff are paid – everything that you see at FIGMENT is born from a simple desire to share imagination with each other and the public.
In these challenging economic times, it is important that artists devise new ways to create, share, think, and dream about what is possible. FIGMENT is an alternative to many of the shortcomings of the commercial art world— exclusive, expensive, impersonal, untouchable and often simply boring.
Famous for his role in New York’s artistic heritage and the Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol believed that everyone had it in them to be a star for fifteen minutes. Through his own art, he defined his identity and shaped the world around him. He once commented that he’d like his tombstone to say only one word: “Figment.”
FIGMENT is a project of Action Arts League, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and is created and produced by a coalition of volunteers. FIGMENT is made possible by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s SwingSpace program, which was created with lead support from the September 11th Fund. FIGMENT is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Art Media in this Show
Acrylic, Ceramic, Crafts, Cut Paper, Digital Media, Glass, Illustration, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Watercolor, Oil, Pastel, Pencil, Photography, Poetry, Video/Film
Size Restrictions For Art
If you can think it, dream it, design it and bring it. It can come
Enter This Show
Entries are accepted from February 21, 2010 to March 01, 2010
To enter this show you will need to send images of your work. You will need to send these images on one of the following: Online Submission
Entry Fee(s): FREE
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