Hartnett Gallery 2024-2025 Call For Exhibitions
Call for Art!
Organized by Bridget Fleming PhD Candidate, Visual and Cultural Studies
On Film and The Hartnett Gallery is now accepting submissions for the group exhibition 'Sex/Labor' Opening November ‘24. We are seeking moving image, video art, film.
On Thursday, November 21st, 2024 the opening of Sex/Labor will be paired with a screening of Working Girls on the University of Rochester campus. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Lizzie Borden that places the film and exhibition into conversation with one another. Working Girls, a narrative film, depicts a day in the lives of sex workers. The majority of the film takes place in a single room, where a group of women gossip, eat, fight, and hang out before and after their appointments with clients.
We seek moving-image artwork that addresses topics which include:
- Any kind of sex work / aspect of the industry (stripping, pole dancing, escorting, sugaring, peep shows, camming (+ other forms of online sex work), pornographic film and video, phone sex, etc.)
- How the industry has changed / is changing since the COVID-19 pandemic
- Sex work & everyday life
- Memoirs, poetry, and other creative writing by sex workers
- Histories of sex worker activism and unionization efforts
- Representations of sex work in popular culture
We invite artists whose work is included in the exhibition to attend this event with Lizzie Borden. $300 stipend
The Hartnett Gallery at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, is now accepting proposals from individual artists, groups, and curators based in the US that are interested in exhibiting their work during the 2023-2024 academic year. Submissions from University of Rochester alumnae artists and artists based in the Rochester area are also welcomed. This year a panel of undergraduate students and the Hartnett Gallery Advisory Board will select two exhibitions to be held during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Selected artists are guaranteed:
- A 3 to 4 week exhibition at Hartnett Gallery during the 2024-2025 academic year
- Assistance installing the exhibition
- A $1000 honorarium paid at the end of the exhibition
- Limited support for shipping, travel, and hotel accommodation for installation and the exhibition reception
- An opening reception and public artist talk
- Press material and PR support
Application
Deadline
Emailed Applications are due April 15th, 2024 by 11:59pm. Incomplete submissions, late submissions, or submissions that do not conform to the guidelines will not be considered.
Email Subject
Hartnett Call for Exhibitions 2023-2024 Submission for [Artist Name]
Email Content
To submit your work for consideration, compile and email the following items as one PDF (under 5MB) and send to hartnett@mail.rochester.edu. Please do not send zipped files.
- Contact Information
- Artist Name
- Address (City, State, Zip)
- Phone Number
- Email Address
- Website and/or Instagram
- Type of Exhibition (alumnae, individual, group, or curated)
- Availability: Please list the exhibition dates you are able to exhibit work.
- Work must be available for the duration of these exhibition dates
- Fall Exhibition: October 24th - November 15th
- Spring Exhibition: February 1st -March, 1st 2024
- Work must be available for the duration of these exhibition dates
- Working Title of Exhibition
- Exhibition Statement
- Installation Requirements:
- Specify any out-of-the-ordinary spatial and technical needs
- Artist Biography
- Artist Statement
- 5 to 10 images of recent artwork.
- Images do not have to be of works that will definitely be included in the final show, but MUST be representative of the works to be displayed. For video/new media files, please submit as a Vimeo link. For each image include the following information below the image: Title of Work, Medium, Dimensions, Year.
- Artist Resume
Notification
Artists will be notified by May 1st, 2024.