Project Mission: To document the work of older American living artists
Organizations: The Research Center for Arts and Culture at the National Center for Creative Aging and a consortium of Washington, DC partners that include American, Howard, Georgetown and George Washington Universities, The Phillips Collection, The Corcoran College of Art and Design and The Gallery at IONA Senior Services.
Who Should Apply: Eligible artists must be age 62 or older and reside in the Washington, DC metro area. Ineligible artists can support the project by helping spread the word.
Deadline: Friday, March 1st
ART CART is an interdisciplinary arts legacy project that will connect aging professional artists with teams of graduate fellows to undertake the preparation and documentation of their creative work, to help shape the future of our cultural legacy. From artists who need help organizing their materials, to those who have already documented some of their work, this project seeks to help put their work in order for current and future generations. Artists will receive honoraria for their participation in public forums and free use of customized software that will be used to document their work.
ART CART: Saving the Legacy provides aging artists with direct, hands-on support and guidance to manage and preserve their life’s work, and provides students with an intergenerational, educational experience and mentorship in the preservation of artistic legacy. Over the course of an academic year, several teams of students, each working with a single visual artist, will document a substantial number of works – collecting both high-quality digital images as well as relevant historical, biographical and artistic background information.
ART CART: Saving the Legacy provides aging artists with direct, hands-on support and guidance to manage and preserve their life’s work, and provides students with an intergenerational, educational experience and mentorship in the preservation of artistic legacy. Over the course of an academic year, several teams of students, each working with a single visual artist, will document a substantial number of works – collecting both high-quality digital images as well as relevant historical, biographical and artistic background information.
Artists will receive an honorarium, a free 15-month license, maintenance and instruction for documentation software, an opportunity to create an oral history and the documentation of a portion of their work. They will be required to select a working partner—friend, spouse, heir, apprentice, studio assistant—for the spring term to assist in all documentation sessions (once a week for four hours) and to appear in several public forums to discuss their work and their lives as artists.
Patricia Dubroof, Cultural Arts Director at IONA Senior Services, will be coordinating the DC area artists. She can be reached at 202-895-9407.
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