Young Space, no.92
Nothing if not a labor of love.
"The capacity for delight is the gift for paying attention.” —Julia Margaret Cameron
A word on Dovetail! (It’s back.)
Dovetail began during the pandemic as an art-meets-design magazine in collaboration with a friend. Over time, career paths changed, the world returned to “normalcy,” I moved abroad for a while, and the publication went on hiatus. In early 2023, while I was living in Scotland, I revived the project with more of a focus on contemporary art and place—and within that, myriad ways of thinking about material, site, environment, climate, action, and so forth. It was even granted some generous funding in 2024 from Arts Midwest as part of the inaugural (and sadly only) Midwest Creative Media Cohort. Through this, I was able to amp up the quantity of writing, hire contributors, pay artists, and print a special issue.
But these things come at a price. For me, Dovetail is and has always been a labor of love. When something doesn’t pay the bills, but it costs money to maintain and it requires a lot of time, it can’t be anything else. That’s why, earlier this year, I decided to give the project another break in order to step back and reassess what it meant—what it means to me.
My mind automatically wants to systematize and expand everything I start. I’m not sure if that’s a deeply ingrained entrepreneurial/capitalist mindset or just something that’s wired in me à la, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” But with Dovetail, I find myself actively challenging this compulsion. (And the same with Young Space, tbh!)
When I relaunched the project in 2023, I started with the aim of keeping it simple, going slowly, and doing it entirely on my terms. Ironically, the grant facilitated new ways of thinking about it, and a lot of that “simplicity” went out the window as I strove to find ways to spend all that money in 12-month period. Don’t get me wrong, it was great—but it was also exhausting. Incidentally, I wish that funding could have stretched for 2 or 3 years instead, as it could have taken the publication far over a more prolonged period. Still, it was a boon. But also regardless, in the overworking, I lost sight of the core ethos that makes Dovetail worth doing in my spare time.
This time, Dovetail is back with a renewed focus on slowness and intentionality. I plan to dig deeper into the ideas and stories that I choose to publish there, crafting longer articles with more of an editorial approach, while perhaps publishing fewer of them. And as I increasingly contribute to the travel writing sphere in my day-to-day work, I aim to include more travel elements as well, tied closely to contemporary art’s relationship with site, movement, history, and culture within the context of place. I’m interested in connections between artists and the land, the climate crisis, public interaction, and unique ways of experiencing art “in the wild.”
Much of this ties into my own personal journey, as I work toward purchasing and converting a cargo van into a camper in the spring of 2026. It’s not an exaggeration to say that next to art, it’s all I think about. Naturally, my travels will propel me to parts of North America that I have never been able to experience before, taking time to immerse myself in nature, see art, visit studios, explore landscapes, and meet people for whom these places are central to their sense of being and shape what they do. For me, the movement and everyday discoveries are where I find the most natural, beautiful, and surprising creativity.
So, consider this a slow re-beginning. I’m looking forward to exploring stories about not only land art, conceptual practices, and art history that I am personally so moved by, but also the travel and experiences that form the lens through which I view them. Dovetail will likely be more introspective sometimes—more personal. I view it more as a creative outlet than a receptacle for work, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.
See you next week.
—Kate
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What you’ll find below:
Exhibitions to see in Beacon, Edinburgh, Jackson Hole, Lisbon, and Los Angeles
Twelve opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Exhibitions
LOS ANGELES | GOOD MOTHER GALLERY
Terry Hoff: Corner
Hoff explores the nature of the corner, drawing on experiences where a physical corner was used as a means of punishment when he was young but turned out to be a place that spurred creativity. “The corner became a place where my imagination could explode out,” Hoff explains. “Thoughts and ideas bounced off one another.”
Runs through August 16
EDINBURGH | INGLEBY
Aubrey Levinthal: Mirror Matter
“Aubrey Levinthal’s paintings capture passing moments in the lives of a cast of (often autobiographical) characters in downtown Philadelphia.…Each work offers a glimpse of a passing moment and part of an unspecified, usually urban story, echoing the oddness of everyday life, and reflecting the communality of human experience.”
Runs through September 13
JACKSON HOLE | MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY
One Thing Touches Another
One Thing Touches Another brings together work by 41 British artists, from internationally established figures to emerging young contemporaries, curated by Emma Hill and Tom Hammick.
Runs through September 14
More Exhibitions Worth a Peek
Kevin Beasley: What delineates the edge at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, through August 16
Line Load at Mother Gallery, Beacon, through August 16
Sonia Gomes: Torcer, amarrar e pender at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, through August 16
Artist Opportunities
Young Space emphasizes fully-funded opportunities with low or no entry fees and programs that focus on creative and professional development for visual artists and curators. Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
Paid subscribers, check out the whole list anytime at yngspc.com/opportunities and enter the password you received in your signup email. Can’t find it? Just shoot me a note. Thank your for your support!
Pioneer Works Visual Arts Residency and Working Artist Fellow Residency
Deadline: August 31
The Visual Arts Studio Residency program provides artists with glass-enclosed public-facing studios, bimonthly studio visits, access to PW resources, and public engagement opportunities. The Working Artist Fellowship is a one-year program that supports artists in the development and completion of new, socially-engaged work. Artist fellows each receive a range of resources including a $50,000 stipend, teaching and public engagement opportunities, production resources, mentorship, and advisors to support artists who want to deepen and expand their connection to socially-engaged modes of creating.
Submission fee: none
Liu Shiming Art Foundation Artist Grants 2025
Deadline: August 31
Each year, the Liu Shiming Art Foundations selects up to five artists to receive a $5,000 grant. Artists from any country may apply, and to be eligible, applicants must have either received a degree in studio arts between 2015 and 2023, or had their debut show at a gallery or juried art exhibition between 2015 and 2023.
Submission fee: none
Corsicana Artist + Writer Residency
Deadline: September 1
Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, located fifty miles south of Dallas, Texas, offers residents the opportunity to develop their work in refurbished, historic buildings across their campus. Residencies last two months and host two artists and one writer. Given the small town setting, residents are encouraged to interact with the cultural, architectural, and geographic landscapes of the South and West of the United States. Included in the residency are opportunities for education, exhibition, and publication of work. Artists must pay a $200 administration fee; there are no additional costs.
Submission fee: $30
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency
Deadline: September 1
This residency application is for the session running January 5 to June 19, 2026. Residency awards come with a weekly $175 stipend. All residents are provided housing that includes a private bedroom, bathroom, and studio space. Writers and visual artists generally share an apartment with one other resident, with shared kitchen, living room, and balcony space. Composers are generally housed in a garden-level studio apartment. All travel expenses are the responsibility of the awardee, with the exception of cab fare from Omaha or Lincoln on the day of arrival and/or departure.
Submission fee: $35
Surel's Place Month-Long Residencies in Idaho
Deadline: September 1
The program is open to professional visual, literary, and performance artists: painters, writers, musicians, architects, filmmakers, and choreographers… any artist who needs a place to focus. Residencies include free rent and utilities, wifi, $100 stipend per week, a $300 travel stipend, and more, in Garden City, Idaho. In addition, residents will have hosts to help orient residents to the community, introduce them to other artists, inform them of nearby events and opportunities, and host their public events at Surel’s Place.
Submission fee: none
1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art
Deadline: September 7
The Gibbes Museum of Art in partnership with 1858 Society is accepting applications for this $10,000 prize. Eligible applicants must reside, work in, or be from one of the following southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia.
Submission fee: $35
Tiger Strikes Asteroid x Transmitter TNT Residency Winter 2026
Deadline: September 7
Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York and Transmitter Gallery are excited to announce TNT Residency, a 6-month, fully funded residency in a 430-square-foot studio adjacent to both galleries at 1329 Willoughby Avenue, culminating in a solo exhibition or open studio event within the studio space. The winter residency runs from January 10 to June 21.
Submission fee: $35
Sainsbury Scholarship (6 Months) for the British School at Rome
Deadline: September 8
The British School at Rome (BSR), in partnership with the Linbury Trust, is pleased to offer the Sainsbury Scholarship—a transformative three-month residency in Rome, running from January 7 to June 30, 2026. This opportunity is open to an exceptional early-career artist working in any medium. This scholarship is specifically designed to support artists from Black, Asian, and minoritized ethnic backgrounds, who remain underrepresented in the arts and at the BSR. Open to U.K. or Commonwealth nationals and residents.
Submission fee: none
Hodder Fellowship—Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton
Deadline: September 9
The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work. Hodder Fellows spend an academic year with Princeton, but no formal teaching is involved. Selected artists receive $93,000 for one 10-month academic year. Fellows are additionally funded $5,000 for research expenses.
Submission fee: none
Princeton Arts Fellowship—Lewis Center for the Arts
Deadline: September 9
Princeton Arts Fellowships will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career artists, including but not limited to, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors, and performance artists who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community. Princeton Arts Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1–July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected. The selected artist receives a $93,000/year stipend, plus $5,000 per academic year for research expenses and $2,000 per academic year for classroom expenses.
Submission fee: none
Lesher Participatory Arts Grant
Deadline: Rolling until October 2025
A new initiative led by 14 local arts leaders, including the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and the Lesher Family Foundation, is now accepting applications. This pilot program empowers local artists and organizations in Knox County, Maine, to propose projects and help determine how $25,000 in grant funding will be awarded. One $5,000 grant is awarded each month between June and October 2025, and applications are accepted throughout the run of the program.
Submission fee: none
National Lottery Project Grants for U.K. Artists
Deadline: Rolling
National Lottery Project Grants is always open for project grants between £1,000 and £100,000.
Submission fee: none
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