Call for Submissions

Downtown/s: Urban Renewal Today for Tomorrow
The 2017 Art Gallery of Windsor Triennial of Contemporary Art

Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to Friday September 30, 2016, 5 pm
Exhibition Dates: September 29, 2017 - January 14, 2018
(results will be communicated in the fall of 2016)

Curated by Jaclyn Meloche, PhD, Interim Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor
Guest Juror: Kirsty Robertson, PhD, Associate Professor, Western University, Canada

The Art Gallery of Windsor (AGW) is pleased to invite proposals for new or recent artworks for Downtown/s: Urban Renewal Today for Tomorrow, The 2017 Art Gallery of Windsor Triennial of Contemporary Art which brings together examples of contemporary art made by artists in southwestern Ontario, Windsor-Essex, and Detroit surrounding the theme of downtown/s - downtown destruction and downtown renewal. In response to this theme, artists are to consider the many ways in which they experience, understand and frame the notion of downtown within their community in all its locational precarity and multiplicities.

The strategic plurality of the word downtown speaks to current and timely conversations about global architecture, culture and economic renaissance, topics that are changing the nature of what a downtown looks like, how it functions, and for whom. In an effort to expand the Art Gallery of Windsor’s notion of downtown and collaborate with other sites in and around the city, additional locations will serve as a stage for the presentation of art, such as the University of Windsor and its newly relocated School of Creative Arts, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Windsor International Aquatic and Training Centre, and other sites to be determined. In the spirit of an intervention, we invite artists to submit recent works, or proposals for new work to be exhibited in a variety of spaces. Artists are encouraged to share their stories with us. We want to know how artists are responding and re-imagining their experiences and understandings of downtown in times of urban renewal. Works in all media will be considered, including sculpture, performance, video, audio, installation, photography, painting, drawing and digital media.

Application Guidelines:

  1. Eligibility: Downtown/s: Urban Renewal Today for Tomorrow, The Art Gallery of Windsor Triennial of Contemporary Art is open to artists living in southwestern Ontario, Windsor-Essex and Detroit.
  2. Artworks in all media created in the past two years are eligible.
  3. Applications must include the following:

a) Cover page including name, address, city, postal code/ zip code, country, telephone, email and website (if applicable)
b) Project title, and media
c)10 images or audio-visual documentation of previous work in the following formats (digital images: JPEG, maximum 1MB file size; maximum resolution 1024 X 768 pixels. Video must be viewable in Quicktime or Windows Media Player, maximum resolution 1024 X 768 pixels on a clearly labeled CD, DVD or flash drive 
d) Corresponding image list identifying the title, date, media and dimensions/duration.
e) CV and Artist statement (no more than 4 pages).
f) Project description/ Proposal (no more than 500 words).
g) Details of technical requirements for the work (i.e. services, necessary equipment including maintenance of the work).
h) A stamped, self-addressed envelope – if you would like your support material to be returned to you.

4. Artists included in the exhibition will be paid an artist fee in accordance with Canadian Artist Representation (CARFAC) guidelines. 

Please send applications to:

The 2017 Art Gallery of Windsor Triennial of Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of Windsor
401 Riverside Drive West
Windsor, Ontario, N9A 7J1
In person deliveries accepted at AGW Visitor Services, 2nd floor, between 11 am – 5 pm, Wednesday through Sunday only.

Inquiries:
Jaclyn Meloche, Interim Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor
519-977-0013 ext 125
jmeloche@agw.ca

The AGW would like to acknowledge the City of Windsor and funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts.