In 2006, Artadia began using CueRate, a product of the Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT), for its open applications in partner cities around the United States. CueRate facilitates Artadia’s application and review process. Applicants for the Artadia Awards upload work samples, an artist statement and artist cv through a simple Web form. A first-round jury panel of three nationally recognized curators, critics, and artists review the applications as a group through digital slide review and on hi-resolution laptops and projected images on screen.
For the CueRate application review process, hi-resolution digital projectors replace slide projectors, and panelists are presented with high resolution artist images. Media submissions are accepted through Artadia’s process as well – artists complete the application online and can mail in their time-based media entries for the applicable deadline.
The CueRate system consists of two modules – an online application and a networked review tool. The application is an easy-to-use Web form that accommodates the input of information, as well as the attachment of work samples. The review system comprises a moderator work station connected to two digital projectors and a series of three panelist work stations. In Artadia’s review process, jurors discuss work and then register their votes at their individual workstations. At the end of each scoring round the moderator quickly sorts artists based on various criteria and can seamlessly advance the designated artists to the next round.
CueRate was developed through a partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the largest grant distributor of unrestricted fellowships in the US. Artadia partnered with CAMT and NYFA to implement the digital application process and launched the first digital awards review with the Chicago program in the summer of 2006. Over the course of just three application cycles (one cycle to date so far in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco) more than 2,500 users have accessed the Artadia applications online using CueRate. Artadia’s program staff fields specific queries about the application, and since implementing Web forms, the number of submitted applications has increased by more than 25 percent. For the inaugural Boston Artadia Awards program, nearly 700 applications were received. According to an informal survey of organizations using CueRate, the system’s online application interface has resulted in a 15-25 percent increase in applicants. “Artadia’s unrestricted awards and support to visual artists are a valuable and rare resource in the U.S. and we applaud the work that they are doing,” said Cary McQueen Morrow, CAMT’s executive director.
Artadia complements a transparent and accessible application process through a second round jury in the program city with studio visits. For example, for the recent program in Boston, local juror Pieranna Cavalchini (Curator, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) was joined by Rene de Guzman (Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) and Michael Darling (Curator of Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum). The three jurors visited 15 finalists in Boston over the course of four days in May 2007. Each studio visit is forty-five minutes long, and other local activities include meetings with local curators, exhibition tours of art museums, and visits to alternative art spaces. A two-tiered, rigorous jury process has been crucial to the success and thoroughness of the Artadia Awards review.
Using CueRate for the application and first round review has enabled wider access for potential applicants, streamlined application administration, and jurors have unanimously applauded the digital presentation and review. Artadia also collects information through an optional survey for applicants regarding their career stage, community and other demographics. Over the course of the next several years in Artadia’s growing national network including New York, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago and Boston, this information will allow Artadia to better serve artists and our program communities better.
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About the Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT)
CAMT's five Web servers host the web sites of more than 300 national and international cultural institutions, and provide a number of support services for those sites. Since its establishment in those "pioneer days" of the Web, CAMT has assisted many artists and arts organizations in embracing the opportunities offered by information technology. Most notably, CAMT developed the first online, Web-based grants application system which is used today by 17 state and local arts agencies as well as private foundations. Applied research continues on CueRate, eGRANT and other technology initiatives -- including consulting services, the annual Technology in the Arts conference, content management systems, on-line course registration programs for performing and visual arts organizations, artist rosters and job banks -- as CAMT staff seek further ways of bringing effective and efficient technology solutions to the cultural field. |
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Artadia in San Francisco Bay Area
The sixth cycle of applications were open to all visual artists and collaboratives living and working within the five Bay Area counties this summer. After an open period of three months, the online applications closed at 11:59 PM on Tuesday, July 31 and Artadia received 517 applications -- a record number of applications for the program in the Bay Area!
The final breakdown of applicants this year is as follows:
Total Applications Submitted: 517
Total Applications with time-based media: 80
A shortlist of 15 Finalists will be announced in October 2007, and the awards will be announced in November 2007. Ten Awards will be distributed -- 3 of $15,000 and 7 of $1,500. An exhibition of the awardees’ work and an accompanying full-color publication will follow. The exhibition will take place in 2008.
Bay Area Awards Timeline:
May 1 - July 31, 2007
San Francisco Bay Area application period is open.
October 2007
15 Finalists are announced, following the initial jury.
November 7 - 10, 2007
Studio visits with the 15 Finalists will take place.
November 2007
Artadia Awardees in San Francisco Bay Area 2007 are announced, following studio visits in the Bay Area.
2008 TBA
Exhibition of Awardees’ work
Art calendar dates through the end of the year
Venice Biennale
June 10 – November 21, 2007
(Venice , IT)
Documenta 12
June 16 – September 23, 2007
(Kassel , DE)
Art Forum Berlin
September 29 – October 3, 2007
(Berlin , DE)
Frieze Art Fair
October 11 – 14, 2007
(London , UK)
Scope London
October 12 – 15, 2007
(London , UK)
Performa
November 1 – 20, 2007
(New York , NY)
Miami Beach Art Fairs
including
Art Basel Miami Beach
PULSE
SCOPE
ink
flow
NADA
Aqua
December 6 – 9, 2007 (Miami, FL)
Artist Spotlight
John Osorio-Buck
Artadia Award Recipient - Boston 2007
Art Omi Sculpture Field, Columbia County, New York
U7H21; Drop and Deploy, 2007
Collapsible Self-sustainable Shelter, Mixed Media
Bivouac Exhibition, Art Omi International
Dimensions variable
Sumakshi Singh
Artadia/Driehaus Award Recipient - 2005
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
Interiority - Sight-Specific
June 10 - July 29, 2007
Ladder7a, 2007
Acrylics, aluminum, foil on canvas
34' x 5'
Ladder Opening, 2007
Acrylics, aluminum, foil on canvas
34' x 5'
44th and 46th Ward, Chicago, Illinois
ART 44/46, PUBLIC ART
October 5 - 31, 2007
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Artadia Award Recipient– Houston 2003
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Wayward Thinker
May 26 - August 12, 2007
Ossi-Mitts #1, 2007
Mixed media on canvas
2' x 2'
Jim Goldberg
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2001
14 year old trafficked girl, 2004
6 6/8"x4 1/4"
Polaroid with text
Jim Goldberg has recently won two significant awards:
The Aftermath Project Grant
"Goldberg’s winning Aftermath Project proposal is part of an ongoing body of work reflecting the seemingly insurmountable difficulties faced by refugees, migrants, asylum seekers and trafficked people, as well as their dreams for freedom and their indomitable will to survive post-conflict situations. The individuals he photographs come from across the globe – Iraq, Somalia, Ukraine, Albania, Russia, Poland, Nigeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Sudan, Afghanistan, Palestine, and elsewhere. His project exposes basic human rights issues: access to care, access to public services, legal rights, asylum, and perhaps most importantly, the continual quest to build and live within a life of dignity and grace."
And
The Open Society Institute
Documentary Photography Project
"Jim Goldberg will produce a multimedia exhibit of photographs and oral histories about the immigrant experience in Greece. In partnership with Amnesty International, the work, and an accompanying resources guide, will reach the native and immigrant population of Greece via a traveling van."
In October of 2007,
The Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco)
will exhibit Goldberg's new work.
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Michael Arcega
Artadia Award Recipient - Chicago 2002
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising
July 20 -October 22, 2007
The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
September 19 - December 23, 2007
John Arndt
Artadia Award Recipient – Chicago 2002
Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois
Recent Work
August 10 - September 8, 2007
Work in Progress (detail), 2006
watercolor on paper
360" x 52"
Amy Blakemore
Artadia Award Recipient – Houston 2004
The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Nexus Texas
August 18 - October 21, 2007
Victor Cartagena
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2000
TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Anatomy of la Mentira
Liz Cohen
Artadia Award Recipient - SF Bay Area 2002
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Chopped Chromed and Customized
August 25 – October 21, 2007
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
50,000 Beds
July 20 - September 15, 2007
Kota Ezawa
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2005
LOOP: THE PLACE FOR VIDEOART LOVER, Barcelona
“Than One”
May 31 - June 2, 2007
Amy Franceschini
Artadia Award Recipient - San Francisco 2006
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
Weather Report: Art + Climate Change, Curated by Lucy Lippard
The Unfinished Journey of Carl Linnaeus, video and public program
September 14 - December 21, 2007
Offload: Systems for Survival
Gardening Silicon Valley Superfund Sites, sculpture
Watershed Media Center, Bristol, England
September 13 - 16, 2007
Gaylen Gerber
Artadia Award Recipient – Chicago 2001
Bad At Sports Podcast
Episode 93: Gaylen Gerber/Michelle Grabner
Brian Kapernekas
Artadia Award Recipient - Chicago 2004
Periodic Artspace, Humboldt Park, IL
Coma 13: Heat Wave!
July 28, 2007
Arnold J Kemp
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2001
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
PICA: Time-Based-Art Festival
September 6 -16, 2007
Hiroko Kikuchi & Andi Sutton
(members of the National Bitter Melon Council)
Artadia Award Recipients - Boston 2007
The New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University
STENCILS: Public Space and Social Intervention
July 26 – August 25, 2007
Jason Lazarus
Artadia Award Recipient – Chicago 2006
Gitana Rosa Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
In the Dirt: Young Photographers Rethinking
the Human Relationship to the Contemporary Landscape
June 8 – July 6, 2007
Bernie Lubell
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco Bay 2000
OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Conservation of Intimacy
September 6 - October 14, 2007
Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Humana Ex Machina - Human Out Of The Machine
August 25 - September 29, 2007
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Conservation of Intimacy, 2005
Wood, latex, music wire, copper, springs, nylon line, paper, pens, black rubber rope and video surveillance
25' x 18' x 24'
Kara Maria
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2001
Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, California
Paradise Lost
June 4 - July 29, 2007
Deployment in Wonderland, 2007
Acrylic on canvas
60" x 80"
Will Michels
Artadia Award Recipient – Houston 2006
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
HCP: 25th Anniversary Fellowship Exhibition
July 20 - August 19, 2007
Michael Jones McKean
Artadia Award Recipient - Houston 2006
Sunday, New York, NY
Solo Exhibition: Michael Jones McKean
September 6 – 30, 2007
William J. O’Brien
Artadia Award Recipient – Chicago 2006
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Jesse Chapman, Aliza Nisenbaum, William J. O'Brien
July 7- August 4, 2007
Guy Overfelt
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2001
St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Burning Rubber
June 2 – July 29, 2007
Travis Somerville
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2000
Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
A House is Not a Home, curated by Beth DeWoody
July 9 - August 17, 2007
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
smART,
curated by Clint Willour
July 14 - August 11, 2007
To The Rednecks of Georgia, 2007
Acrylic, wood, rope, found objects
Dimensions variable
Kathryn Spence
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2002
Johansson Projects, Oakland California
Thread
July 19 - August 25, 2007
Stephanie Syjuco
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 1999
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Landscape & Memory II
May 24 - July 7, 2007
Timothy Taylor (Ramekon)
Artadia Award Recipient – San Francisco 2002
1087 Gallery, Chico, CA
SuperArt Hero
2007
Temporary Services
Artadia Award Recipient – Chicago 2006
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Library
June 16 - July 8, 2007
Allison Wiese
Artadia Award Recipient – Houston 2004
The Fields Sculpture Park at the Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
Bivouac, curated by Max Goldfarb
Season opening: June 16, 2007
The Renaissance Society Benefit On-line Auction and Benefit Gala
PEEP SHOW!
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Advance bids are now being accepted online or by phone at (773) 702-8670 until September 6, 2007, at 5:00 p.m. CST.
Chicago-based Artadia Board member Curt Conklin and Jennifer Conklin are chairing the the 2007 Renaissance Society Benefit, PEEP SHOW! The annual benefit gala and art auction will be held on the evening of Saturday, September 8, 2007. The benefit auction contains cutting-edge art by over eighty of today’s most compelling artists, including Darren Almond, Francis Alÿs, Markus Amm, Paul Chan, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Katharina Grosse, Arturo Herrera, Daniel Hesidence, Mike Kelley, Sze Tsung Leong, Glenn Ligon, Rebecca Morris, Mai-Thu Perret, Raymond Pettibon, Steven Shearer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and many others. All proceeds from the auction support The Renaissance Society’s 2007-2008 exhibition season.
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