Submission Guidelines for 2010 River City Biennale
Contact: Ann Resnick or Elizabeth Stevenson
Telephone: (316) 265-7137
E-mail: rivercitybiennale@cox.net
Website: http://www.rivercitybiennale.com
Blog: http://www.biennale2008.wordpress.com
River City Biennale is an art exhibit and cultural event with the goal of bringing serious attention to artists in Wichita, Kansas. We hope to bring the best and most critically viable contemporary art being created in Wichita to a national audience of critics, curators, gallery and museum professionals and collectors.
Opening in the spring of 2010, RCB hopes that the Biennale will increase the opportunities for Wichita artists to be included in major regional, national, and international exhibitions. RCB will host exhibits in several venues and will include panel discussions and distinguished speakers on topics related to contemporary art. This is a concerted effort to connect what’s going on here with what’s going on elsewhere and to continue the dialogue begun in 2008 with regional curators and critics.
River City Biennale invites all professional artists, working or residing in the City of Wichita (no students, please), to submit images to be considered for the 2010 exhibit. To ensure the best possible and most professional presentation, RCB is a curated exhibition. This year’s curator, Hesse McGraw, curator at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE will initially review artists’ works via cd (images may be posted on RCB blog, too), then make studio visits in Wichita for a final selection. He will work with the selected artists to consider the sites available and the possibility of creating work that responds specifically to the exhibition spaces.
Submission guidelines and deadlines for the 2010 River City Biennale:
Please send or deliver to Project by August 15, 2009
• CD–up to 10 images of current work. Images should be approximately 600 x 900 pixels with a resolution of 300 pixels/inch
• Include image index with title of work, media, size and date completed in pdf format
• Include current resume/CV. Collaborative teams must submit individual resumes/CV in pdf format
• Brief artist’s statement (no more than 250 words) in pdf format
• DVD (limit 10 minutes of material)
• For Web-based projects, please include URL address
Please label CD/DVD with your name, Emil address, other contact info (cell phone #, website address, etc.) Submitted materials will not be returned.
Project
1712 E. Douglas Ave.
Wichita, KS 67214
Artists selected for studio visits will be notified via e-mail in late-September. Please check the River City Blog http://biennale2008.wordpress.com/ for updates and current information.
