(DETROIT, MI — AUGUST 21, 2019) — Red Bull Arts Detroit is pleased to announce that applications for the program’s 2020 Artist Residency and Curatorial Fellowship are now open to the public. In an effort to refine and renew its dedication to the cultivation and advancement of the arts, Red Bull Arts Detroit will make structural changes to its 2020 program.
As one of Red Bull Arts’ two public-facing spaces, Red Bull Arts Detroit is the home of the program’s Artist Residency, Curatorial Fellowship, and rolling Local Micro-Grant Initiative. In an effort to increase the program’s accessibility for a diverse pool of applicants, the Artist Residency will shorten in length to two months, respecting the fact that many artists are unable to make a three-month commitment. Rather than each residency term culminating in an exhibition, the Red Bull Arts team will curate public exhibitions, accompanied by the annual Curatorial Fellow exhibition. In addition to the $5,000 unrestricted stipend, the Curatorial Fellowship now includes a $15,000 exhibition budget to be utilized for the exhibition by the Fellow. Full program details available here.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee of celebrated arts professionals, who will select nine Artists-in-Residence and one Curatorial Fellow. Red Bull Arts Detroit’s 2020 Selection Committee comprises artist, writer and curator, Michelle Grabner; writer, artist and Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Legacy Russell; artist and 2018 Red Bull Arts Detroit Artist-in-Residence Joiri Minaya; and art historian and theorist Michael Stone-Richards.
“Red Bull Arts Detroit is a unique residency and fellowship program, in that it aims to amplify cultural exchange between its residents and the local arts community ,” says Red Bull Arts Detroit Program Manager Matt Eaton. “The program not only fosters the development of new, thought-provoking work, it invites local and international artists, curators, and thinkers to engage with and bear witness to the rich cultural community in Detroit.”
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ARTIST RESIDENCY
Red Bull Arts Detroit’s Artist Residency program will continue to provide artists at different stages of their careers the resources and freedom to develop their practice, with nine artists selected for three two-month-long residency cycles. Transportation to Detroit is included, as are fully-furnished off-site living accommodations, and access to a 6,000-square-foot shared studio space. Artists are also provided an $8,000 unrestricted stipend, as well as a $2,000 individual budget for hiring assistants, sourcing materials, or otherwise producing work in Detroit. Deadline: September 30, 2019.
CURATORIAL FELLOWSHIP
Red Bull Arts Detroit is committed to holistically supporting the arts locally and nationally. As such, we seek to provide alternative exhibition platforms to the vast network of independent curators who offer new ways of seeing, understanding, and experiencing artists and their works. The program creates an opportunity for a curator to realize an exhibition concept and bring it to the public in Detroit. The Curatorial Fellow is provided a $5,000 stipend, and a $15,000 exhibition budget, both unrestricted, as well as budget for three-to-four public programs as agreed with Red Bull Arts Detroit. Deadline: September 30, 2019.
LOCAL MICRO-GRANT
The hyperlocal, need-based Micro-Grant Program provides numerous $1,000 grants enabling Detroit local artists to continue their practices. These grants are given on a rolling basis, and are combined with career counseling by Red Bull Arts Detroit staff and advisors. Taken together, these grants represent Red Bull Arts Detroit’s dedication to the local community, and the arts at large. Micro-Grants are awarded on a rolling basis, with applications due on the 1st of each month. One applicant is selected per month, with funds granted one month after notification.
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 MICHELLE GRABNER (b. 1962, Wisconsin) works in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, video and sculpture. Incorporating writing, curating and teaching with a studio practice grounded in process and productivity she has created a multi-faceted and dynamic career. Grabner holds Grabner holds an MA in Art History and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University. She joined the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, and became Chair of its prestigious Painting and Drawing department in 2009. She is also a senior critic at Yale University in the Department of Painting and Printmaking. Her writing has been published in Artforum, Modern Painters, Frieze, Art Press, and Art-Agenda, among others. Grabner runs The Suburban and The Poor Farm with her husband, artist Brad Killam. She co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art along with Anthony Elms and Stuart Comer. Grabner served as the inaugural artistic director of FRONT International, a triennial exhibition in Cleveland, OH.
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 JOIRI MINAYA (b. 1990) is a Dominican-United Statian multi-disciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity. Minaya attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales in Santo Domingo (2009), the Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School for Design (2013). She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program and the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Red Bull House of Art, the Lower East Side Printshop and Art Omi. She has been awarded a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship as well as grants by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and the Nancy Graves Foundation. Minaya’s work is in the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Centro León Jiménes in the Dominican Republic.
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 LEGACY RUSSELL is a writer and curator. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds a dual-major B.A. with Honors from Macalester College in Art History & Studio Art and English & Creative Writing with a focus in Gender Studies, and an MRes in Art History with Distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Curated exhibitions and projects include Radical Reading Room (2019) at The Studio Museum in Harlem and MOOD : Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2018-19 at MoMA PS1; a series of multimedia events exploring digital feminism and celebrating queer nightlife at ICA London (2017) and the critically acclaimed Wandering/WILDING: Blackness on the Internet in collaboration with IMT Gallery and ICA London (2016). Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art and a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow. Her first book, #GLITCHFEMINISM, is forthcoming from Verso Books.
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 MICHAEL STONE-RICHARDS is Professor of Critical Theory and Visual Studies at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit. He is the recipient of a Warhol Foundation Grant for his book in progress, "Care of the City: Ruination, Abandonment, and Hospitality in Contemporary Practice" (forthcoming Sternberg Press). This is part of Michael's work as Chair of the Committee on Critical Studies at CCS seeking the terms of a pedagogy for the twenty-first century Art / Design School. Michael has published and lectured widely in critical theory, art writing, and cultural history, with essays forthcoming on McArthur Binion, black labor and the avant-garde, and the problem of attention in cultural conflict. With artist Addie Langford he curates the open conversation series the Alexandrine Street Seminars. With Addie Langford he is also the co-founder of Detroit Research of which he is also the founding editor. Detroit Research: Vol. 3 / On Sound (guest-edited by Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller), with featured artist Kevin Beasley, is due out in Fall 2019.
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ABOUT RED BULL ARTS
Red Bull Arts is an experimental, non-commercial arts program dedicated to creating new opportunities for artists and fostering public engagement in the arts. The program aims to extend the boundaries of exhibition making; support the production of new work by emerging and established artists; participate in and respond to the needs of local arts communities; and contribute to ongoing dialogue around contemporary issues and thought.
ABOUT RED BULL ARTS DETROIT
Red Bull Arts Detroit is an experimental, non-commercial arts space offering an artist residency, curatorial and writing fellowships, and local micro-grants. With physical locations in New York and Detroit, Red Bull Arts focuses on extending the boundaries of exhibition making; supporting the production of new work by emerging and established artists; participating in and responding to the needs of local arts communities; and contributing to ongoing dialogue around contemporary issues and thought. The organization is dedicated to the cultivation and advancement of the arts.
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PRESS CONTACTS
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