Hello!
This week, I’m coming to you from the Baja California Sur, Mexico, on a rather unique jaunt with my parents. My dad is an artist whose studio practice and years of traveling to art festivals shaped my passion for art and art world communities from an early age. Raised in Sunset Beach, California, he formed an obsession with surf and coastal culture that followed him, and probably even grew, after he moved to the Midwest—the guy is happy on literally any west coast. His work is pretty cool, not to mention he invented an entire island replete with maps and a minted coin.
Last year, he was commissioned to paint and install a 25-foot-long painting in a house near Cabo San Lucas. Then, Hurricane Norma swept in last autumn, and along with some other damage, the painting came loose and is in need of some conservation. As if anyone needs to twist my arm for a trip to Mexico this time of the year, this seems like a pretty cool excuse to do that, and it’s fun to be able to help my dad fix and reinstall his work.
Turns out there’s an annual art weekend happening at nearby Todos Santos, too. Goes to show you just never know how or why you might end up somewhere new.
See you next week!
—Kate
What you’ll find this week:
Between Waves, a new subscriber-supported interview on Dovetail
Five exhibitions on view this week in London, Los Angeles, and Paris
Eleven opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Between Waves
Artist Franziska Lamprecht in conversation with curator Alice, Nien-Pu Ko
The artists in this exhibition have developed a way to navigate the historical struggles, memory, and identity that are not defined by nation-states and territories but from a life of experience that has been nourished by the island and their unique culture. In re-evaluating the past and present, perhaps we can discover a new ethos that would allow for a structural overhaul, yielding a history that goes beyond the dynamics of country-to-country discourse. —Alice, Nien-Pu Ko
Earlier this month, artist and writer Franziska Lamprecht spoke with Alice, Nien-Pu Ko, the curator of Between Waves—Part 8 in The Brooklyn Rail’s Singing in Unison series—about geography, oceanic culture and thought, and connecting across distances.
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Exhibitions
LOS ANGELES | STEVE TURNER LA
Kate Klingbiel: Nervous System
Klingbiel’s richly detailed, idiosyncratic paintings are sculptural and maze-like, and her most recent body of work delves specifically into the artist’s experience with chronic illness and the anxiety of navigating America’s healthcare system.
Runs through February 3
LONDON | SIM SMITH
Kemi Onabulé: All the Land Is Spoken For
Chopped trees, flooded plains, and dark orange suns fill the landscapes of Kemi Onabulé’s paintings in the artist’s ongoing exploration of the human impact on the natural environment.
Runs through February 10
LOS ANGELES | SHULAMIT NAZARIAN
Tanya Aguiñiga: Telar Terrenal / Earthly Loom
Influenced by the traditional crafts of Mexico and pre-Columbian Latin America, Aguiñiga’s gorgeous work centers around off-loom weaving techniques incorporating knots, knitting, and crochet.
Runs through February 10
LONDON | COB GALLERY
James Morse: The Hands That Comb the Hills
The brushy landscapes of James Morse’s paintings remind me of the liveliness of folk paintings and the busy-ness of local squares in the 16th-century paintings of Pieter Breugel the Elder.
Runs through February 10
PARIS | GALERIE GEORGES-PHILLIPPE & NATHALIE VALLOIS
Richard Jackson: Wretched Excess
There’s nothing I love more than a site-specific installation, and Richard Jackson’s solo exhibition at Galerie GP & N Vallois includes 1000 Paintings, made of canvases laid horizontally and stacked to the ceiling, among a number of other sculptures.
Runs through February 24
Artist Opportunities
Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
Paid subscribers can access a list of dozens of current opportunities anytime. Visit yngspc.com/opportunities.
Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Deadline: February 14
The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia. There are three prize categories: the Professional Artist Prize of $35,000, the Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 and the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000. There is also a People’s Choice Award of $2,000 plus an art pack valued at $500.
Submission fee: none
Open Call for Contemporary Indigeneity
Deadline: February 15
For the fifth iteration of Contemporary Indigeneity, the Great Plains Art Museum seeks Native American artists addressing any issues and themes relevant to the contemporary Indigenous experience on the Great Plains.
Submission fee: none
Arts Mid-Hudson Statewide Community Re-Grant Program
Deadline: February 15
Arts Mid-ÂHudson has announced a funding program with over $250,000 in funds to support the arts in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties. This funding is available to individual artists to create new work in 2024, and to nonprofit organizations, individuals artists, libraries, and municipalities for arts and cultural activities in 2024. Eligible projects may include, but are not limited to: exhibits, performances, concerts, festivals, in-school and community workshops, screenings, readings, cultural programming, and the creation of work.
Submission fee: none
Forge Project Fellowship
Deadline: February 15
Forge Project, a Native-led organization whose mandate is to cultivate and advance Indigenous leadership in arts and culture, invites applications from Indigenous cultural workers broadly, inclusive of diverse mediums, practices, and areas of expertise. Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have full access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of living Indigenous artists during a residency stay of up to three weeks.
Submission fee: none
Scholarships for School of the Alternative
Deadline: February 15
School of the Alternative is a true DIY all-hands-on-deck community experience in Black Mountain, North Carolina. This year’s session will be held in two one-week sessions from May 9 to 22. Need-based and Black Equity Scholarships are open for applications by February 15, and student applications are open until February 28.
Submission fee: none
Martin House Creative Residency Open Call
Deadline: February 16
The Martin House Creative Residency Program is a project-based residency that provides creative individuals a designated time and space to develop new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th-century architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright in Buffalo, New York. Participants generally spend 2-4 weeks onsite, and residents will receive a stipend of $5,000. 50% of the stipend will be provided upon arrival to Buffalo; the other 50% will be offered upon completion of the project. Travel expenses of up to $1,000 will also be provided to residents who are from outside the Buffalo-Niagara region.
Submission fee: none
McKinney International Art and Design Residency 2026 Open Call
Deadline: February 16
The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4–6-week McKinney International Art and Design Residency. An established artist or designer will be selected whose primary country of residence is outside the U.S., to visit for a 4–6-week period between February 1 and May 1, 2026. Studio space, lodging, and a fellowship of $8,000 will be provided.Â
Submission fee: none
Booooooom Open Call for Tomorrow’s Talent Vol. 4
Deadline: February 16
Apply for the fourth volume in Booooooom's art book series emphasizing emerging talent.Â
Submission fee: $10 (cost of membership)
Modern Ancient Brown Foundation Post-Bac Residency
Deadline: February 16
As part of its developing Core Program, the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation is accepting applications for its Post-Baccalaureate Residency in Studio Art and Critical Studies from candidates in the Great Lakes region, from Detroit to Chicago. Four artists will be chosen for a five-month residency in either Fall 2024 or Spring 2025, in which two residents will be chosen to share a 1,000-sq. ft. studio space. Each resident will also receive a monthly stipend of $1,500. The intent is to encourage those selected to take the time and space to explore their chosen media.
Submission fee: none
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Spring 2025 Residencies
Deadline: February 19
Anderson Ranch’s Artists-in-Residence Program fosters creative, intellectual and professional growth for emerging and established visual artists. Residents have access to world-class facilities and studio time, free from everyday pressures. Residents will be provided housing, studio space, and meals. Residencies are offered in ceramics, new media, photography, furniture design, woodworking, painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Spring residents pay a fee of $750 for the five weeks at the Ranch. A select group of the 32 residencies are fully funded fellowships awarded by the jury panel.
Submission fee: $30
Dovetail Open Call for Artists and Writers
Deadline: February 29
Dovetail launches Fields, a new zine project that aims to bring together, in a printed format, diverse perspectives around art and the spaces we traverse and inhabit. For the first issue, submissions are invited from artists and writers based in the Midwest or whose work focuses on locations, landscapes, the environment, social issues, migration, and other themes around the Midwest region. Pitches may include photo essays, artist profiles, interviews, critical reflections, and more. Dovetail would especially like to prominently feature and engage Native artists, the LGBTQ+ community, creatives of color, and individuals in the rural Midwest. Selected pieces will be provided with a $500 stipend.
Submission fee: none
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