Event - Information Session I: 2024-25 QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship | World’s Fair Focus

Information Session I: 2024-25 QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship | World’s Fair Focus

07.20.23, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Online

A checkered collage of purple rectangles and archived images from past fellowship projects.

Images (left to right): Meredith James, installation detail from "Mobius City", 2015. Photo: Hai Zhang; Ronny Quevedo, "no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime (after Glissant and Quevedo)", 2017. Photo: Argenis Apolinario; Kameelah Janan Rasheed, installation detail from "Source Material for a Poem I’ve Been Trying to Write about Casual Superlatives, National Progress and Palate Cleansers", 2015. Photo: Hai Zhang; Alexandria Smith, "The Rooting Place", 2019. Photo: Hai Zhang; Asif Mian, detail view, "Karmic Profile", 2021. Courtesy the artist; Julia Weist with Nestor Siré, installation view from "17.(SEPT) [By WeistSiréPC]™, 2017". Photo: Hai Zhang; American Artist, still from "2015", 2019. Courtesy the artist; Sable Elyse Smith, "Landscape I", 2017. Photo: Hai Zhang; Casey Tang, "Untitled (Rivers)" (still), 2015. Courtesy the artist; Sydney Shen, installation view from "Strange But True", 2021. Photo: Hai Zhang.

Curious about the 2024-25 QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists and this season’s focus on the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair? Join us to learn more!

 

Register in advance for this webinar here

 

This Information Session will provide an overview of the 2024-25 Queens Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists and include information about the Fair as it relates to this opportunity. We’ll discuss the details of the program, now in its sixth cycle. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in a Q+A with QM staff for all fellowship, application, and World’s Fair related questions.

 

To learn more about the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair and possible themes for artists to respond to, please click here.

 

We highly encourage applicants with World’s Fair-related questions to submit their questions in advance. This will help QM staff to organize a presentation on the Fair and the Museum’s archival collection that considers the interests of attendees. Please submit your questions at least two days prior to the Information Session date via the Google form here.

 

Please note: Attending an information session is not mandatory, but attendance is encouraged for prospective applicants. A second information session will be held on August 29, 2023, 6-7:30pm EST via Zoom, where we will focus on eligibility requirements and fellowship experience.

 

To learn more about the QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, click here.

 

Application Deadline: October 29, 2023, 11:59pm EST.

 

Accessibility info:

This Information Session will have closed captions and ASL interpretation. To access captions, click on the CC button below (or the ^ to the right of CC), and select “Show Subtitles”. Selecting settings will allow you to adjust the size of the captions to your preference. You can select “Show Full Transcript” to open a window for the running transcript of the webinar.