Open Call: The Socrates Annual Fellowship 2024

The Socrates Annual Fellowship is an opportunity for early career artists to realize new public artworks at Socrates Sculpture Park, a public park in Long Island City, Queens. The Fellowship is a highly competitive program that reflects the Park’s commitment to artistic experimentation and nurturing artistic careers. This important training ground for early career artists allows Artist Fellows to gain experience creating large-scale public art projects. Socrates encourages artists to create proposals that consider the use of materials and scale of projects in relationship with the Park’s five-acre landscape.

Fellowship recipients receive an $8,000 production grant to support their project, a $2,000 honorarium, and three-months of seven-days-a-week access to the resources and fabrication facilities of the Park’s outdoor artist studio, as well as the technical and administrative support needed to design and install an artwork within the Park. Fellows are responsible for the fabrication, transportation, and installation of their own artworks. The Fellowship culminates in The Socrates Annual, an exhibition that showcases Fellows’ completed works, from September 2024 – March 2025.

Artists including Leilah Babirye (2018), Sable Elyse Smith (2016), David Brooks (2009), Hank Willis Thomas (2006), Orly Genger (2004), and Sanford Biggers (2001) have participated in the Fellowship program since it was formalized in 2000.

Requirements

Fellowships are awarded to artists whose artistic practices would benefit from the Fellowship’s resources at this point in their careers. Any artists who have never before shown work at Socrates are eligible to apply. Artists who have previously participated in the Fellowship are not eligible, nor are artists enrolled in school, college, or university during the Fellowship period. Artists may not participate in out-of-state residencies during the Fellowship.

Application Instructions

For additional information and to apply, visit https://socratessculpturepark.org/opencalls/open-call-the-socrates-annual-2024/.