[DAC] Fwd: [Artfound-list] Call for artists

[Donna Penn]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: News from the Artists Foundation <artfound- 
> list at artistsfoundation.org>
> Date: July 23, 2007 8:07:32 PM EDT
> To: artfound-list at artistsfoundation.org
> Subject: [Artfound-list] Call for artists
>
> News from the Artists Foundation
> _______________________________________________
> Information about this mailing list, including
> unsubscription information, may be accessed
> through the link at the end of this message.
> _______________________________________________
> Island Alliance, a non-profit in support of the Boston Harbor  
> Islands; the
> Berwick Research Institute, a non-profit providing alternative  
> programming and
> exhibition space for artists who work outside the commercial world;  
> and Studio
> Soto, an artist performance/screening/exhibit space in Fort Point,  
> invite you
> to participate in an Artist Encampment on Bumpkin Island in Boston  
> Harbor.
> This Labor Day weekend, September 1-3, eight artists will have the  
> opportunity to
> become temporary Homesteaders on the island, where we will be  
> awarding eight
> plots of prime, arable land. Additional artists will be selected to  
> create
> installations throughout the island. This project is a try-out for  
> an event of
> longer duration that we’d like to plan for next year.
>
>
> Projects will:
>
> - Only include what you can carry, including everything you need to  
> sleep,
> eat, drink, etc. Everything brought on the island must also leave  
> with you on
> the last ferry at 3:45 pm on Monday.
>
> - Utilize the resources/elements available on the island. For  
> instance, you
> cannot cut down a tree, but you can collect and use fallen  
> branches. Rocks on
> the shore, shells, seaweed, and washed up debris are all fair game.  
> Everything
> you find and use on the island will stay on the island at the end  
> of the
> project. Installations not in the tent sites that are made  
> exclusively from found
> materials may remain intact on the island. Installations may not be  
> created
> below the high tide line because they might present a hazard to  
> boats coming
> close to shore at high tide.
> - Be open to interacting with the public during the process of  
> creating the
> work.
>
>
> Background on Homesteaders:
> In 1862, the
> United States recruited civilians to aid in its movement west. The  
> Homestead
> Act offered any U.S. citizen or head of household, including people  
> of color
> and women, free or low-cost 160-acre plots of land. In return,  
> "homesteaders"
> promised to build a 12' x 14' house, cultivate and "improve" the  
> land and live
> on the plot for five years. The project resulted in the creation of  
> over
> 372,000 farms west of the Mississippi, continuing as late as 1976--  
> when the
> Homestead Act was officially dissolved.
>
>
> The Homesteaders on Bumpkin Island this Labor Day Weekend will:
>         *    Build some kind of “home” on their plot of land.
>         *    Live on the land for at least two days with his/her  
> “family”
>
>         *    “Improve” the land in some way.
>
>
> About Bumpkin Island:
> Bumpkin was used by Native American Indians prior to European  
> contact. During
> the colonial period, the island was leased to tenant farmers. The  
> island
> hosted a fish-drying operation in the early nineteenth century and  
> a fish smelting
> operation in the early twentieth century. In 1900, a Boston  
> philanthropist
> named Clarence Burrage founded a hospital for children with physical
> disabilities. During World War I the island was taken over for use  
> as a United States
> Naval training camp, which was dismantled after the war. The  
> hospital reopened
> briefly in about 1940 for polio patients but closed during World  
> War II and
> burned in 1945. Today, the physical landscape of the island has  
> been reclaimed by
> plants - about half are non-native species, including various  
> fruits and
> berries, shrubs, vines, field plants and trees. Wildflowers grow  
> along the trails
> that lead visitors to the remains of the children's hospital and a  
> stone
> farmhouse. The island is 35-acres with slate and shell beaches and  
> open fields.
>
>
>
> Deadline for proposals: August 7
> You will be notified by August 17
>
>
>
> If selected, artists will arrive to claim their free campsites on  
> the island
> beginning at 12:00 PM on Saturday, September 1. Take a ferry from  
> Long Wharf
> to Georges Island and then take the Southern Loop Inter-Island  
> shuttle to
> Bumpkin. Fares is $12. See http://www.bostonislands.org/ 
> boatschedule.pdf for
> schedules.
>
>
> To apply:
> For those interested in homesteading, send a one-paragraph  
> description of how
> you would "improve" your land, and why. For those interested in  
> creating an
> installation elsewhere on the island, describe your idea and/or  
> your interest
> in creating art on the island.
>
>
>
> Send to:
>         Land Office
>         408 Atlantic Ave, Suite 228
>         Boston, MA 02110-3349
>         mailto:BumpkinIslandLandOffice at gmail.com
>         Be sure you include your name and contact information.
>
>
> We encourage you to:
> - Work with other artist sites, collaborate, pool resources, etc.
> - Make your work interactive in some way
> - Consider a broad audience; visitors will be a combination of  
> artists,
> hikers and families just randomly visiting or camping on the island  
> that day/weekend
>
>
> - Contact us with any questions
>
>
>
>
>
> Carolyn Lewenberg
>
> Operations Manager
>
> Island Alliance
> 408 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 228
> Boston, MA 02110
> Tel: 617-223-8672
> Fax: 617-223-8671
>
>
> <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak  
> peek of
> the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML>
> _______________________________________________
> Artists Foundation mailing list
> For more information, or unsubscribing, visit:
> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/artfound-list
> _______________________________________________

Donna Penn
See our fine art and notecard website at www.krausedesigninc.com
For info on the Dorchester Arts Collaborative & Dorchester Open  
Studios, see: www.thedac.org


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.thedac.org/pipermail/dacmail_thedac.org/attachments/20070724/7309ec9e/attachment-0001.html