Earth Fest 2022 Call to Artists
DEADLINE, JANUARY 10TH, 2022
DEADLINE, JANUARY 10TH, 2022
Wickham Works is seeking to commission two Orange County artists to create artworks that will be part of our Earth Fest 2022 event at Stanley Deming Park in Warwick on Saturday April 30 (rain date Sunday May 1).
The theme for Earth Fest 2022 is Regeneration: Everything Old is New Again. The event celebrates Earth Day by focusing on creative re-use of materials and recycling, and will include a puppet show and junk instrument-making workshop; carnival-style games for kids made from cardboard, recyclables and other repurposed materials; artwork and art-making stations; music and performances; and as a culmination of the event, a parade/rumpus using the processional art we have made during the day.
Each selected artist will:
1) Create a large-scale artwork using upcycled, re-used, or repurposed materials that can be displayed outdoors at the event and included as part of the parade/rumpus.
2) Work with children and adults during the event to create their own artworks to carry, wear, or use during the parade/rumpus. This could include instruments/noise makers, wearable items such as masks or headdresses, puppets, banners, or more, ideally inspired by or related to their large-scale artwork.
Wickham Works will provide a $400 honorarium for each selected artist and will help source materials and provide assistance developing the artmaking activities for children and adults (if needed). We will also provide volunteers to assist artists in facilitating the artmaking activities at the event, as well as materials for participants to use.
Artists who are traditionally underrepresented-–including BIPOC, lgbtq+, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
If you are interested in being considered for this opportunity, please send the following to alizaschiff@wickhamworks.org by January 10, 2022
- Your name, address, email, and phone number.
- Three to ten examples of your past work with descriptions/captions. Please submit a single file (PDF, doc, google doc) with either images embedded into it, or as links to websites, with descriptions/captions for each example. If any of the examples were created in collaboration with others, please also note your role in each project in the description/caption.
- Your preliminary thoughts about 1) the large-scale artwork you would make and 2) the related artmaking activity you would facilitate at the event. Please tell us how your ideas address our theme and how you propose to use recycled/upcycled/re-purposed materials in both the large-scale artwork and the artmaking activity. This can be submitted as a written letter (no more than 2 pages) or a video (no more than 5 minutes).
If you have further questions please contact: alizaschiff@wickhamworks.org
Summer 2021
Highlights from Voces/Voices, Public Art Exhibition
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Mi Voz, Summer Enrichment program with the children of Dulce Esperanza/Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization.
Warwick, NY
Highlights from Voces/Voices, Public Art Exhibition
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Mi Voz, Summer Enrichment program with the children of Dulce Esperanza/Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization.
Warwick, NY
An artist’s voice is as distinctive as their fingerprint. It is a unique expression of their creative vision and their way of looking at the world. Wickham Works presents Voces/Voices, a summer outdoor exhibit showcasing area artists responding to the theme Finding Your Voice.
The pieces are on display August 14th-31st at Railroad Green, Lewis Park, and Pine Island Park, Warwick, NY.
Blacksmith artist Dave Kurdyla has created his largest solo project to date, a nearly 600 pound steel sculpture that will be placed in Railroad Green. With one side composed of crisp clean lines and the other featuring organic hand-forged shapes, the artwork explores the space between order and chaos where creativity and change can happen.
Stitched both by machine and by hand, Raheli Harper’s large-scale fabric map placed in Lewis Park represents the never-ending journey of finding one’s voice. For Harper, this is a process of unearthing parts of herself that have been buried, gaining new views of what surrounds her, and giving new truth to her voice.
Matt Barile has created an “invisible” soundscape for Pine Island Park. Walking into the gazebo triggers the audio composed of voices of local young people sharing what is important to them in words, music, and sounds. Barile worked with students in the Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program and students from The Rock Underground Music Schools in Pine Island and Greenwood Lake to give youth a chance to express themselves through this artwork.
Emily Welch worked with young artists from the Alamo Farmworkers Community Center to create a two-sided mural in Pine Island Park. The mural features a landscape of the black dirt fields as a backdrop to framed paintings by individual youth.
For Voces/Voices, Claire Gilliam has created two new works that build upon her recent body of work and exhibition in Fleischmann’s, NY, exploring the latin alphabet, communication, and the evolving nature of language. Large-scale blue cyanotypes on gauzy fabric hold the mark of her body and her written alphabets, while a second piece made in clay calls to mind ancient cuneiform tablets and becomes a relic to be discovered. Gilliam’s works will be installed in Lewis Park and Railroad Green.
Brooke Hamling and Wendy Insigner have each created a set of panels sharing their voices as poets. In Railroad Green and Lewis Park, visitors will find a series of poems that celebrate the power of words to express one’s individual experiences.
For the first time, Kris Campbell will present her entire #iamCOLORseries of six 11-foot square translucent cross-stitch tapestries of flowers, each celebrating a different color, in Pine Island Park. Kris was recently named the Arts Council of Rockland’s Visual Artist of the Year.
Voces/Voices will also showcase the work of young artists in Wickham Works’ summer arts programs––the Dulce Esperanza enrichment program run by the Warwick Area Farmworker Organization and the Student Youth Leadership Academy at the Warwick Valley Community Center.
There will be two free public opening events: Saturday August 14, 2021, 4:00pm, Art Walk and Reception, Village of Warwick. Starting at Railroad Green and walk to Lewis Park, meet artists Gilliam, Kurdyla, Harper, and Hamling and Insinger. Reception to follow in Lewis Park sponsored by the Warwick Historical Society.
Sunday August 15, 2021, 12:00pm to 4:00pm, Art Fiesta, Pine Island Park, Kay Drive, Pine Island. Join Wickham Works and the Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization for traditional home cooked Mexian food, music, and a celebration of the artists - Matthew Barile, Kris Campbell, Emily Welch and students from the Alamo Farmworkers Community Center youth program, and the Dulce Esperanza summer enrichment program. Event is free and open to all. Sale of food supports the WAFO's summer enrichment programs.
This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
The pieces are on display August 14th-31st at Railroad Green, Lewis Park, and Pine Island Park, Warwick, NY.
Blacksmith artist Dave Kurdyla has created his largest solo project to date, a nearly 600 pound steel sculpture that will be placed in Railroad Green. With one side composed of crisp clean lines and the other featuring organic hand-forged shapes, the artwork explores the space between order and chaos where creativity and change can happen.
Stitched both by machine and by hand, Raheli Harper’s large-scale fabric map placed in Lewis Park represents the never-ending journey of finding one’s voice. For Harper, this is a process of unearthing parts of herself that have been buried, gaining new views of what surrounds her, and giving new truth to her voice.
Matt Barile has created an “invisible” soundscape for Pine Island Park. Walking into the gazebo triggers the audio composed of voices of local young people sharing what is important to them in words, music, and sounds. Barile worked with students in the Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program and students from The Rock Underground Music Schools in Pine Island and Greenwood Lake to give youth a chance to express themselves through this artwork.
Emily Welch worked with young artists from the Alamo Farmworkers Community Center to create a two-sided mural in Pine Island Park. The mural features a landscape of the black dirt fields as a backdrop to framed paintings by individual youth.
For Voces/Voices, Claire Gilliam has created two new works that build upon her recent body of work and exhibition in Fleischmann’s, NY, exploring the latin alphabet, communication, and the evolving nature of language. Large-scale blue cyanotypes on gauzy fabric hold the mark of her body and her written alphabets, while a second piece made in clay calls to mind ancient cuneiform tablets and becomes a relic to be discovered. Gilliam’s works will be installed in Lewis Park and Railroad Green.
Brooke Hamling and Wendy Insigner have each created a set of panels sharing their voices as poets. In Railroad Green and Lewis Park, visitors will find a series of poems that celebrate the power of words to express one’s individual experiences.
For the first time, Kris Campbell will present her entire #iamCOLORseries of six 11-foot square translucent cross-stitch tapestries of flowers, each celebrating a different color, in Pine Island Park. Kris was recently named the Arts Council of Rockland’s Visual Artist of the Year.
Voces/Voices will also showcase the work of young artists in Wickham Works’ summer arts programs––the Dulce Esperanza enrichment program run by the Warwick Area Farmworker Organization and the Student Youth Leadership Academy at the Warwick Valley Community Center.
There will be two free public opening events: Saturday August 14, 2021, 4:00pm, Art Walk and Reception, Village of Warwick. Starting at Railroad Green and walk to Lewis Park, meet artists Gilliam, Kurdyla, Harper, and Hamling and Insinger. Reception to follow in Lewis Park sponsored by the Warwick Historical Society.
Sunday August 15, 2021, 12:00pm to 4:00pm, Art Fiesta, Pine Island Park, Kay Drive, Pine Island. Join Wickham Works and the Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization for traditional home cooked Mexian food, music, and a celebration of the artists - Matthew Barile, Kris Campbell, Emily Welch and students from the Alamo Farmworkers Community Center youth program, and the Dulce Esperanza summer enrichment program. Event is free and open to all. Sale of food supports the WAFO's summer enrichment programs.
This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
Wickham Works would like to thank the following Sponsors for their generous support of Voces/Voices: Alario & Associates, CPA, Bluestone Acupuncture, Branded845, consciousfork, De Buck's Sod Farm, NY, Fetch Bar & Grill, GC Optics, Glenn P. & Susan D. Dickes, Irace Architecture, Nourish Your Mind Integrative Mental Health & Nutrition, Owen McShane D.D.S., Pine Island Chamber of Commerce, Rhythm & Rhyme Childcare Center, Roe Brothers Inc, Sugar Loaf Mental Wellness, The Rock Underground Music School, Warwick's White House.
Highlights of our 2020 season!
Who we are
Wickham Works is a non-profit art organization and Maker Space based at the Warwick Valley Community Center in Warwick, New York. We are committed to building community through the arts. We aim to bring people of all backgrounds and ages together to connect, learn, collaborate, inspire, and create, while providing opportunities for personal and financial growth and empowerment. The principle of creative reuse is embedded in all our activities, spreading the message of environmental stewardship and renewal by example.
What we do
- Empowering and educating children and adults through art and creative reuse
- Providing a marketplace for artists & artisans
- Reaching under-served audiences with enrichment opportunities
- Exploring creativity as a tool for social good
How you can help
Make a tax-deductible donation with PayPal at WickhamWorks.Org or send a check to Wickham Works, Inc. 3 Forester Ave., Unit 8, Warwick, NY 10990. All donations acknowledged.
Follow Wickham Works on FB for the latest news and events.
Wickham Works is a non-profit art organization and Maker Space based at the Warwick Valley Community Center in Warwick, New York. We are committed to building community through the arts. We aim to bring people of all backgrounds and ages together to connect, learn, collaborate, inspire, and create, while providing opportunities for personal and financial growth and empowerment. The principle of creative reuse is embedded in all our activities, spreading the message of environmental stewardship and renewal by example.
What we do
- Empowering and educating children and adults through art and creative reuse
- Providing a marketplace for artists & artisans
- Reaching under-served audiences with enrichment opportunities
- Exploring creativity as a tool for social good
How you can help
Make a tax-deductible donation with PayPal at WickhamWorks.Org or send a check to Wickham Works, Inc. 3 Forester Ave., Unit 8, Warwick, NY 10990. All donations acknowledged.
Follow Wickham Works on FB for the latest news and events.
Stay in touch with us to learn more about upcoming events.