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

September 2, 2011

Your Art Here (YAH) is seeking qualified and motivated individuals for a newly-created 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 pubic, or community-based nature. Both positions are unpaid, and the terms are one-year, renewable, and begin as soon as possible.

Curatorial Director

The Curatorial Director is responsible for curating and contextualizing YAH projects with both the local community and international art world in mind. An ideal candidate would have experience creating, curating, or writing about public art. Duties are as follows:

Work with the Assistant Curatorial Director, artists and organizations to curate and install artworks on the three YAH billboards.
Develop and execute creative projects in collaboration with the Assistant Curatorial Director.
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.
Hang billboards with assistance of the Assistant Curatorial Director and volunteers.

Assistant Curatorial Director

The Assistant Curatorial Director is responsible at the operational level for YAH projects. An ideal candidate would have various skills including knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite software, and ability to help artists lift and hang billboards. Duties:

Work with the Curatorial Director and artists and organizations to curate and install artworks on the three YAH billboards.
Develop and execute creative projects in collaboration with the Curatorial Director.
Use digital tools (Photoshop, etc.) to represent YAH projects in print and onscreen (the website, social media, etc.)
Maintain or work with a volunteer to 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 Curatorial Director and volunteers.

To Apply

Please send an email to the following addresses with the following information

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

Owen Mundy
Sophia Travis

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Bienvenidos a Bloomington

May 5, 2011

Artist Rogelio Gutierrez, May 2011 Herron School of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art and Public life candidate, presents a series of public works throughout the cities of Indianapolis and Bloomington. These works include six billboards (five in Indianapolis and one in Bloomington, made available by Clear Channel and YourArtHere.org) and a mural in the Near West neighborhood of Indianapolis. Each work reads the Spanish phrase Bienvenidos a Indianapolis (Bloomington), which translates to welcome to Indianapolis (Bloomington) in English. The imagery, reminiscent of a nostalgic post card, consists of a sprawling cactus (or nopal), an iconic symbol of Mexico and its culture.

Rogelio, a first generation Mexican-American, hails from California. These public works are meant not only to act as a metaphor for his parents’ struggles to establish a life in the United States, as well as his own transition from life in California to life in the Midwest; but also as a welcoming beacon to the ever increasing Latino/a population in the city Indianapolis and the state of Indiana in general. It is the artist’s intention to attempt to bridge the gap between this population and the general population.

These public works coincide with Rogelio’s MFA thesis exhibition that will take place throughout the month of May in Herron School of Art and Design’s main gallery

Billboard Locations 1) Indianapolis Cultural Trail, 888 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, IN 2) Indianapolis Cultural Trail, 922 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, IN 3) Near 1685 W. Washington St., between Reichwein and Richland Streets heading West (exiting downtown). 4) Near 1685 W. Washington St., between Reichwein and Richland Streets heading West (entering downtown). 5) Near 1185 E. Michigan St., on the corner of E. Michigan and E. Dorman St. (entering downtown). 6) At the corner of E. 6th and N. Walnut, on the square in downtown Bloomington, IN

Mural Location

La Frontera (one of the first Mexican tiendas in Indianapolis) 2401 W. Washington St., Indianapolis

Bienvenidos A Indianpolis MFA Thesis Exhibition

Opening Reception: May 5th (Cinco de Mayo), 5PM-9PM Eleanor Prest Reese and Robert B. Berkshire Galleries, Herron School of Art and Design, 735 W. New York St., Indianapolis, IN

Exhibition continues through May 26th. Gallery hours are: Monday 10AM-5PM, Tuesday 10AM-5PM, Wednesday 10AM-8PM, Thursday 10AM-5PM, Friday 10AM-5PM, Saturday 10AM-5PM, and Sunday CLOSED

Contact: gutierrez.rogelio@gmail.com