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The following application is for the Year Long Artist in Residency with Twin Cities Pride & Art Activation Application ONLY.
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About Twin Cities Pride
Twin Cities Pride is the 501c3 charitable nonprofit organization that produces the annual LGBTQ Pride Festival, March, and other year-round events. In addition, Pride sponsors other LGBTQ nonprofits including but not limited to the MN Deaf Queers, MN POC Pride, and other Prides around the state.
Twin Cities Pride is run primarily with volunteers and a few full-time employees.
In 2023, the Twin Cities Pride Festival is estimated to brings in roughly 400,000 to 500,000 attendees.
If you're part of a company/group/organization that has actively worked against or physically harmed ANY members of the LGBTQ+ community then Pride is not the space for you.
We seek involvement from Artists who affirm and support our mission.
- Twin Cities Pride seeks to empower every LGBTQ person to live as their true self and to create a future where all LGBTQ people are valued and celebrated for who they are.
- The Pride celebration commemorates and continues the fight against discrimination and the struggle for equality, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons and their families.
Elevate and Amplify Residency Program
DESCRIPTION:
Twin Cities Pride’s Elevate and Amplify Residency Program is a new initiative of the organization that hosts the annual pride festival in Loring Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Elevate and Amplify Residency Program can assist artists and culture bearers at all career stages in growing and strengthening their creative practice. Current benefits and expectations are outlined within this application.
Accepted residents receive scheduled access to our 1700 square foot communal office/community space adjacent to Loring Park during the residency, exhibit space in Mall of America during the Month of June as well as other exhibits, artist talks and showcases at the Artistry at the Bloomington Center for the Arts, featured articles, social media spotlights, and reserved booth space in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden during Twin Cities Pride Festival, June 23-25, 2023. Residents will be provided a $500 grant and with the materials provided, invited to design and fabricate an ephemeral public artwork to be used as a photo backdrop in Loring Park to raise social awareness of the artist and activate the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden during the Twin Cities Pride Festival and on available for business sponsors around the Twin Cities after the festival.
Accepted residents are invited to participate in exhibitions, vend and assist with interactive art activations during Twin Cities Pride and/or regional Pride Festivals, lead youth and community focused workshops based on their artistic discipline, and be part of a vibrant community of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ makers that will continue to grow as the program develops.
All participants should display experience, and an avid interest, in their media and a desire to work to further the mission and vision of Twin Cities Pride by engaging the local community through meaningful public programs year-round.
Purpose of Elevate and Amplify Residency Program:
Twin Cities Pride desires to use the visibility and platform we have as an LGBTQ+ organization to Elevate the work and voice of local LGBTQ and BIPOC artist and culture bearers and Amplify their exposure in the community. We seek a mutually beneficial partnership with Artist and Culture bearers to represent their own work and represent TC Pride to our community and youth showing what is possible when living as your true self and following the passion and artistic expression deep within all of us.
Twin Cities Pride seeks to empower every LGBTQ+ person to live as their true self and to create a future where all LGBTQ+ people are valued and celebrated for who they are. The Pride Festival has been one of the core recognizable programs of TC Pride and the organization is moving to more purposeful and year-round programing to benefit our community. We are launching this expansion of our focus with this year’s Pride theme Elevate and Amplify and in this partnership with the Elevate and Amplify Residency.
The description of our theme Elevate and Amplify captures the intention behind this year’s festival and is emblematic of our desire for the Residency.
- It is more important than ever to understand and act with intentionality and purpose, highlighting our different voices while bringing other marginalized communities with us.
- Inclusion is one of our core values - we will make space for people to show up as they are, amplify their voices and highlight the many cultures of our community along with our strength and determination.
- We will stand together and show the world that we are here and will not be silenced. We will also give space to youth to show their true colors and acknowledge they are our future, and they matter. We will celebrate our community and support each other as we always have.
Twin Cities Pride seeks participation of 4-6 artists and culture bearers in the Elevate and Amplify Residency Program who affirm and support our mission, vision, and the history of and purpose in holding a pride festival:
- Twin Cities Pride seeks to empower every LGBTQ+ person to live as their true self and to create a future where all LGBTQ+ people are valued and celebrated for who they are.
- The Pride celebration commemorates and continues the fight against discrimination and the struggle for equality, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons, and their families.
As a new program of Twin Cities Pride the intention is to evolve the program and benefits to approved residents.
STAGE OF CAREER:
Artists and culture bearers at any career stage may apply for this opportunity.
ELIGIBILITY:
This opportunity is open to permanent residents of Minnesota. Priority will be given to LGBTQ+ artists (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit) and to BIPOC artists and culture bearers (Black, Indigenous and People of Color).
SELECTION PROCESS:
Applications are reviewed by an external committee of artists, academics, curators, and non-profit professionals. The committee considers the following metrics when viewing applications: the artistic merit of submitted work, the alignment of the application with organizational mission and values, applicant’s desire to be part of a community, applicant’s ability to work safely and independently and building a diverse cohort of makers.
Twin Cities Pride is committed to diversity and inclusion. Twin Cities Pride does not discriminate with respect to the selection of the artist in residence because of race, color, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, gender, age, physical limitations, or military status.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Application requirements are listed below.
- Artist Statement: A brief statement about your current practice and your experience creating temporary, permanent, free-standing or site-integrated artwork in any three-dimensional or two-dimensional media. Please include links to any websites that feature your work.
- Résumé or Artist Bio: Provide an artist bio/résumé that describes your art background. Please limit to 1-2 pages highlighting your most recent and relevant experience.
- Primary and Secondary Medium: What are your primary and secondary mediums?
- Work Samples: 10 images of previously completed projects that show your experience with art projects. Time-based work with sound or motion should be limited to 5 minutes. Artists may submit images, (text, audio, and video can be included by providing attachments and URL's) in any combination. We encourage applicants to select images that best express their artistic voice and technical expertise. Please include the following information with your images (title, medium, dimensions, brief description, location, date of work, commissioning entity and budget) If you completed a project as a team member, the image identification should indicate your role for each image submitted.
- Residency Program: What are the goals or intentions you have set for your current practice, and how might you benefit from the opportunities, time and space provided by an Elevate and Amplify Residency?
- Separate Proposal for Art Activation: If proposing to design, fabricate, and present a one-day only ephemeral public artwork/activation for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, provide detailed description of the concept, materials, methods, safety considerations, and a project budget.
- Professional References: Provide contact information for three (3) professional references. Include a name, email address, and phone number, along with a brief statement about your working relationship to the reference. Written letters of recommendation may be requested during the application process.
ADDITIONAL EXPECTATIONS/OPPORTUNITIES:
- Participate in public programming, to include Twin Cities Pride Festival, June 23-25, 2023.
- Participate in media interviews and social media posts.
- Participate in regional pride festivals throughout the state.
- Participate in artist talks, group meetings, studio visits, critiques, and exhibitions.
- Participate in the Artist in Residence committee (4 meetings) to help develop the program.
- Be part of the 2024 Artist in Residence selection committee
- Be a Twin Cities Pride Brand Ambassador representing the Program to the Community
ART ACTIVATION in Minneapolis Sculpture Garden June 24, 2023
Artist may optionally submit a proposal for an Art Activations for a one-day only ephemeral public artwork/activation for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden on June 24th during the Pride Festival.
