Art 365

Art 365

Art 365, is an exhibition from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, which offers five Oklahoma artists a year and $12,000 to create innovative artwork in collaboration with a nationally recognized curator. The selected five proposals each will receive a $12,000 honorarium. Once selected, the artists will work with the guest curator during 2010 to create a body of original artwork for a major exhibition, opening in March of 2011. Those selected will meet with curator Shannon Fitzgerald approximately four times for studio visits. She will check in on their direction and encourage critical dialog.

Art 365 2011 Selected Artists
Grace Grothaus, Tulsa
Aaron Hauck, Ada
Geoffrey Hicks, Tulsa
Liz Rodda, Norman
Frank Wick, Norman

Guest Curator
Shannon Fitzgerald is an independent curator and writer. She recently curated the exhibitions Brandon Anschultz: Transmission/Destination for the Center of Creative Arts and Our Commodity: Juan William Chávez, Sarah Frost, Leslie Mutchler for the Regional Arts Commission, both in St. Louis. Fitzgerald was Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis where she curated the exhibitions Staging: Janieta Eyre, Julie Moos, Zwelethu Mthethwa and co-curated with Tumelo Mosaka the Contemporary's inaugural and traveling exhibition A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad. Additionally, she curated solo exhibitions of new work by international artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Michael Paul Britto, Dzine, Yun-Fei Ji, Larry Krone, Michael Lin, Ruby Osorio, Keith Piper, and William Pope.L, along with accompanying publications, among others. Fitzgerald was Adjunct Faculty in the department of Art and Art History at Webster University, St. Louis. She has published many essays on contemporary artists and has contributed to the art journals Bootprint and Review Magazine. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and a MA in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Prior to moving to St. Louis, Fitzgerald worked at the Institute of Visual Arts (inova), University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Fitzgerald recently relocated to Oklahoma City and was just accepted as a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

For more information about Art 365, please call OVAC at 405-879-2400.

Art 365 2008

Preview of the Art 365 2008 Documentary film, Produced by Melissa Scaramucci & Cacky Poarch of Crazy Diamond Productions, for OVAC

Images from Art 365 2008 Artists
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