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Open Call for Common Field Convening Submissions

 

Now accepting proposals for the 2019 Philadelphia Common Field Convening
Convening dates: April 25-28, 2019
Primary Venue: Friends Center, Philadelphia, PA 


The Common Field Convening is an annual itinerant gathering that brings together 450+ visual arts organizers to share resources, ideas, and methods for artist-centered spaces, projects and practices. The Convening is a place for dialogue, workshops, practical and social exchanges exploring the current state of our field. 

The goal of the Convening is to develop local and national peer connectivity, build knowledge from the field, and create a growing set of resources to share broadly. The Convening connects and incorporates the interests, themes, and issues of the national Common Field network with the issues, contexts, and conditions specific to the convening site. Common Field is committed to providing opportunities for both value-driven discussions and practical tools and skills— a need expressed by our Network members and the field at large.

Learn more about Philadelphia’s art community while engaging people from artists’ communities across the country—people who may become potential collaborators, mentors, mentees, and friends.

The Common Field Convening: (originally Hand-in-Glove) a local gathering organized by Threewalls in Chicago in 2011; has since been hosted in New Orleans 2013 (Press Street), Minneapolis 2015 (Soap Factory + Works Progress); Miami 2016 (BFI, Cannonball, Dimensions Variable, and Locust Projects); and in Los Angeles 2017 (Center for Land Use Interpretation, Human Resources, Materials + Applications, Women’s Center for Creative Work). 

Public registration for the Convening will launch in February 2019. Convening content will be documented and available for public access online after the Convening has concluded. 

ABOUT COMMON FIELD
Common Field is a national network of independent visual arts organizations and organizers that connects, supports, and advocates for the artist-centered field. Founded in 2013 and launched in 2015, the Common Field network has 545+ members across the US. Programs include national convenings, grants, research, resources, forums, meet-ups and advocacy. Our vision is to increase understanding, involvement and knowledge of artists organizations and their value, and increase their capacity through national connectivity, dialog understanding and support.

DEADLINE
The 2019 Call for Convening Proposals will close at 11:59PM PST on Monday, November 5, 2018.

ELIGIBILITY
-You must be a current Common Field member in order to apply to the Open Call for Convening Proposals.
-All current members (organizations and organizers) are eligible. To learn more about how to join, visit https://www.commonfield.org/join/.
-Scholarships are available to offset the cost of membership. Contact hello@commonfield.org to learn more.


For full guidelines and links to apply, visit Common Field's website.

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