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[ARTIST CALL] Apply to Be Culver City's Next Artist Laureate

 

Are you an artist interested in serving as Artist Laureate for a diverse, creative city with engaged residents and a thriving art community? Here’s your opportunity! Submit a letter of interest to the Culver City Cultural A?airs Division to start your two-phase application process to be the City of Culver City Artist Laureate.

The application includes a letter of interest and an online application. The Artist Laureate’s tenure is a two-year, funded appointment that starts July 1, 2025, and ends June 30, 2027.?.

The program is open to all artists in three disciplines:
Fine and Visual Arts: 2-Dimensional, 3-Dimensional, and New Genre/New Media,
Performing Arts: Performance Art, Dance, Theater, Spoken Word, and Museum
Literary Arts: Poetry, Novels, Essays, Short Stories, Stage Plays, and Screenplays

Program Goals:
Collaborate with City sta?, the Cultural A?airs Commission’s Artist Laureate Subcommittee, and project partners
Inspire diverse residents to foster a greater appreciation of the arts
Represent the City through engaging and conceptually driven, original works stimulated by and in response to the local communities
Cultivate critical thinking from and connections to the arts through public displays, in-person workshops and programs, and civic events
Increase the accessibility of your art form to residents in their everyday lives
Explore the diversity of the City and get to know the local communities
Create original art that celebrates the City’s geography, cultures, and/or histories

In your Letter of Interest, please include a written narrative of 1000 words or less that considers the following questions:

  • Why are you in serving as Culver City’s Artist Laureate?
  • Describe your passion for your primary medium.
  • How do you see the Artist Laureate’s relationship to Culver City?
  • Explain your methodology/approach for conceptualizing and creating art.
  • Please demonstrate a history of community collaboration and engagement, if applicable.
  • What do you envision doing during your two-year tenure?
  • How does your vision align with the program’s goals?
  • How will you inspire and engage Culver City’s diverse and creative communities?
  • Provide your professional website and/or social media handle(s), if applicable.

Please email your Letter of Interest as an attached PDF document, as well as any questions, to?cultural.a?airs@....

Deadline:?Monday,?March?3,?2025?at?5?PM?PST.

There will be a mandatory, virtual information meeting on?Wednesday,?March?19,?2025?at?7?PM?PST. Online meeting details will be provided later.

Applicants will be contacted in March 2025 to formally apply online in the second and ?nal phase.

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