Alternate Currents Cohort

Type

Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

Location

Eastern Nebraska

Discipline

Visual Arts

Expires

November 17, 2024

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Alternate Currents (AC) is a two-year program designed to support artists and organizers working to thoughtfully challenge dominant systems, forge collaborations, and engage with their communities. An alternative to a conventional MFA, AC cohort members work together to understand how justice in the arts is interpreted, documented, and enacted.

One of only a few programs across the US which prioritizes free access to a cohort learning experience and funding outside larger institutional systems, AC cohort members learn together, share resources, publish their work, organize exhibitions and panel discussions, and receive funding to support their work.

In their first year, cohort members:

Organize and lead monthly site/studio visits.

Share articles, videos, and podcasts to contextualize group discussions during site/studio visits.

Publish their work in a collaborative group publication.

Collectively identify projects to pursue for exhibition at Generator Space in their second year.

Receive a $1,500 honorarium to support their work.

In their second year, cohort members:

Organize and carry out projects or exhibitions at Amplify’s Generator space and panel discussions related to their projects or exhibitions.

Invite artists, organizers, arts workers, and educators from outside of the cohort to participate in projects, exhibitions, and panel discussions.

Receive a $1,500 honorarium to support their work.

Receive additional funding to support Generator Series projects, exhibitions, and panel discussions.

Omaha-area artists and organizers working in any discipline with experience or interest in developing creative work that challenges dominant systems, forges collaboration, and/or engages community are encouraged to apply!