CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ABOUT
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DUE: JANUARY 15, 2027
Theme: Throughlines
Throughlines is the convening title, the theme, and the program design process.
As a title, it marks continuity. The gatherings that held this field together have closed, and what they carried persists in the work of the people who made them. This convening picks up those lines.
As a theme, it asks what persists. A throughline is whatever runs through a field and carries it forward: concerns, commitments, and methods that recur across generations and outlast projects and institutions.
As a process, it determines how the program is built. The Artist Leadership Committee reads the proposals and identifies the throughlines that run across them; the program takes shape around those. Your proposal should describe what's important to you right now.
Who this call is for
We encourage anyone with a vested interest in art as a way of engaging with society to propose programs: artists, activists, academics, cultural workers and producers, administrators, curators, educators, writers, thinkers, doers, makers of all kinds and ages, located anywhere.
This is a field gathering for socially engaged art, and we use this term as a starting point. Your ideas will define its meaning. We welcome hybrid work that resists categorization, that is done collaboratively across disciplines, geographies, institutions, communities, and cultures, taking the form of participatory projects, creative gathering formats, activist and civic work, pedagogy and research, performance and ritual, ecological practice, or any other. You do not need a title, degree, or vocabulary to belong here.