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Call for Your Art Here Curatorial Committee

January 10, 2013

Your Art Here (YAH) is seeking qualified and motivated individuals for the Curatorial Committee which will be responsible for the content and programming related to the mission of YAH. Applicants should be well-versed in the history and current state of visual arts, and be experienced in creating, writing about, or curating art of a public, or community-based nature. Positions are unpaid, and the terms are one-year, renewable, and begin as soon as possible.

Curatorial Committee members are responsible for curating and contextualizing YAH projects with both the local community and international art world in mind, as well as responsible at the operational level for YAH projects. An ideal candidate would have experience creating, curating, or writing about public art, and must have the ability to help artists lift and hang billboards. Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite software is a plus. Duties are shared between the Curatorial Committee members and are as follows:

Work with other Curatorial Committee members, artists and organizations to curate and install artworks on the three YAH billboards.
Develop and execute creative projects in collaboration with the Curatorial Committee.
Write curatorial statements and press announcements to contextualize ongoing YAH projects for audiences both local and global, within and outside of the art world.
Maintain the Facebook and Twitter pages.
Develop a budget and seek funding for YAH projects through grants, donations, art auctions, retail, etc.
Use digital tools (Photoshop, etc.) to represent YAH projects in print and onscreen (the website, social media, etc.)
Maintain the yourarthere.org website.
Assist artists and organizations in preparing images for billboards.
Work with artists and organizations to ensure billboards are printed and hung correctly.
Hang billboards with assistance of the Curatorial Committee members and volunteers.

To apply please send an email to the following addresses with the following information by January 31, 2013

Subject line: Curatorial Committee
A one-paragraph statement
Links to related past work
Resume
Names and contacts for three references

Owen Mundy  owen@yourarthere.org
Natalie Hegert natalie@yourarthere.org

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Portrait (DNA) by Christopher Serra

August 30, 2012

Your Art Here is pleased to announce the hanging of a new artist billboard located at N. 6th St and Walnut Avenue in Bloomington, IN. The billboard will be on display for the fall semester.

The billboard, designed by Boston-based illustrator Christopher Serra, pictures a map of the United States sectioned into a series of numbered columns and bands of color–representing a stylized version of a DNA autoradiograph. Presented in a public space usually reserved for advertising, this image will undoubtedly stir up questions in the viewer, but not ones that are easily resolved: What does it mean for the US to be represented as a DNA map? What constitutes the DNA–the cultural, ethnic, political make-up–of the US? For viewers who are unfamiliar with visual representations of DNA analysis, it may lead to other questions: Why would the US be divided into neat numbered rows? What could the colors signify? During the upcoming fall election season, these questions could potentially become more loaded, and viewers might respond to the image differently according to their political orientation. It is not the intent of this billboard to provide answers, solutions or clear-cut messages, but rather to provoke–via an ambiguous incorporation of geography and genome–questions and introspections.

Christopher Serra grew up in the Boston area. He is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art. Some of his clients include: The New York Times, Harper’s, The L.A. Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, The Progressive and The Nation. His work was included in The Society of Illustrators 48th Annual Show.

Your Art Here is an Indiana-based non-profit public art organization created to provide local communities with an opportunity to engage in visual, public dialogue through the use of billboards and other public spaces. Our mission is to extend visual expression beyond traditional museum and gallery spaces in order to create a public venue where art and ideas can be expressed freely.

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Announcing Your Art Here’s new Curatorial Committee

January 17, 2012

Your Art Here is pleased to introduce our new Curatorial Committee!

Curatorial Director, Natalie Hegert, is an art critic and scholar whose research focuses on art produced for the public realm—from commissioned artist billboards and public sculptures, installations and parks, to non-commissioned street art and graffiti. Her curatorial experience includes organizing and curating the exhibition Objects of Devotion and Desire: from Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art at the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, as well as curating exhibitions and organizing events at Art+Space gallery, an alternative space in San Francisco. This year Natalie will finish her thesis on ’80′s NYC graffiti art for her MA in Art History from Hunter College in New York City. She is also the editor at-large for the contemporary arts website ArtSlant.com.

Assistant Curatorial Director, Christine Jang, is a graduate student in Art Education at Indiana University (IU) with a focus in community development. Her previous degree was a BFA in Painting and Art History also from IU. Her research is mainly in local citizen-based community revitalization, cultural economics and public art initiatives. She is well versed in contemporary art and has a solid understanding of the history behind public arts since the 1960’s. Christine has lived in Bloomington for the past seven years.

Both based in Bloomington, Natalie and Christine are already planning new Your Art Here projects. So stay tuned for more from these two.

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Call for Your Art Here Curatorial Committee

Portrait (DNA) by Christopher Serra

Announcing Your Art Here’s new Curatorial Committee

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