Open Door at the Queens Museum of Art (July 28, 2010) is a platform for artists working in the public sphere to engage in constructive dialogues about their work. Artists working in this vein of aesthetic practice face unique challenges with few forums existing to address them. Creative Time's ongoing Open Door program was founded in the belief that art production is not simply a final product, but a process dependent on critical input, working through pragmatic constraints, and developing a growing artistic community.

On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, in partnership with the Queens Museum of Art, Creative Time's Open Door will take the form of a public review of Queens-based project proposals. All New York City-based artists are invited to submit proposals for a public or social-practice-based project to take place in Queens (within a one-half-mile radius of the Unisphere). From these submissions, the Creative Time curatorial staff will select five artists to present their project proposals to a panel of Creative Time and Queens Museum curators before a public audience. Each presenter will have seven minutes to explain their project, after which the curatorial panel will provide fifteen minutes of conceptual and practical feedback. The panel will select one artist to develop a project or exhibition with the Queens Museum, which will take place within the next twelve months.

We strongly recommend that all applicants visit the Queens Museum prior to applying, particularly on one of the upcoming Passport Fridays in July to get a sense of the organization's community-based programs. Successful proposals must deeply engage local communities in Queens and the public sphere more broadly.

The deadline to apply is midnight on July 18. Click here to submit an application. You will be notified by July 23 and all applicants must be available to present at the public review on July 28, from 6:00–8:30pm at the Queens Museum Theater.

Support
Creative Time is funded through the generous support of corporations, foundations, government agencies, and individuals. We gratefully acknowledge public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency; New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; and New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane. The official hotel partner of Creative Time is The Standard. The official and preferred flower designer of Creative Time is Fleurs Bella.

PLEASE REVIEW THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION PRIOR TO APPLYING

WHAT IS OPEN DOOR?
Open Door is a chance for artists working in the public realm to meet with Creative Time staff members to receive conceptual feedback, have their questions answered, and get informed about resources and opportunities. The program is intended to empower artists and give them the information they need to take the next steps with their projects.

WHAT IS CREATIVE TIME'S OPEN DOOR AT THE QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART?
Open Door at the Queens Museum of Art is a continuation of the Creative Time's Open Door program that will take the form of a public review of Queens-based project proposals on July 28, 2010 from 6–8:30pm. For the review, five artists will present their project proposals to a panel of Creative Time and Queens Museum curators, before a public audience. Each presenter will have seven minutes to explain their project, after which the curatorial panel will provide fifteen minutes of practical and conceptual feedback. The panel will select one artist to be awarded the opportunity to work with the Queens Museum of Art on a project or exhibition that will be exhibited at the museum within the next twelve months.

WHO CAN APPLY?
We welcome any New York City-based artist with a public project for Queens, NY. Artists will be notified of selection by July 23. If you are not selected for an appointment, you will be notified on July 23. All applicants must be available to participate from 6:00–8:30pm on July 28. Please do not apply if you want advice on finding gallery representation or getting your work in a collection.

WHAT CAN BE SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW?
Artists are invited to submit proposals for a project in Queens, NY, within a half-mile radius of the Unisphere (this area includes the Queens Museum). Proposals must be for a public or social practice project that engages Queens' diverse communities. Successful proposals must engage local communities in Queens and the public sphere more broadly. We strongly encourage all applicants to visit the Queens Museum prior to applying, particularly on one of the upcoming Passport Fridays in July

HOW DO I APPLY FOR CREATIVE TIME OPEN DOOR AT THE QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART?
The deadline to apply is July 18 at midnight. Click here to submit written project proposals with supporting visual materials such as sketches, photos, and, maps. Proposals should clearly answer the following questions: What is the conceptual vision for your project? Where is the specific site within Queens? Who is the intended audience? Is the audience local to Queens? How does the intended audience engage with the project?

WILL MY PROJECT BE CONSIDERED FOR REALIZATION?
One artist will be selected to exhibit with the Queens Museum in the future, and depending on suitability, the selected artist will have their project proposal realized by the Queens Museum.

WHAT IF I AM NOT SELECTED FOR A REVIEW?
Although the curators would like to see as much work as possible, due to time constraints the number of artists selected for review is limited to five. If you are not selected for a review, you are welcome to apply for the next edition of Creative Time's Open Door program.

INSTITUTIONS

CREATIVE TIME
Creative Time Open Door at Queens Museum deepens Creative Time's artist-centered mission, and commitment to helping artists broaden their practices and realize big opportunities. Creative Time's recent projects include Stephen Vitiello's A Bell for Every Minute on the High Line; The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice, where over 35 artists and thinkers presented their revolutionary art practices; PLOT09: This World & Nearer Ones, New York's first public art quadrennial; and Tribute in Light, which served as a gesture of hope and healing after 9/11. Creative Time has worked with over 1,400 of the world's most dynamic artists in its 35-year history, and Creative Time: The Book was published on the occasion of the institution's 33rd birthday, exploring each of its projects presented since 1974. www.creativetime.org

QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
The Queens Museum of Art was established in 1972 to provide a vital cultural center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park for the borough's unique, international population. Today it is home to the Panorama of the City of New York, a 9,335 square foot scale model of the five boroughs, and features temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art that reflect the cultural diversity of Queens. The Queens Museum of Art presents artistic and educational programs and exhibitions that directly relate to the contemporary urban life of its constituents while maintaining the highest standards of professional, intellectual, and ethical responsibility. www.queensmuseum.org

PANEL

NATO THOMPSON, CHIEF CURATOR
Since January 2007, Nato has organized major projects for Creative Time such as Paul Ramirez Jonas' Key to the City (2010), Paul Chan's acclaimed Waiting for Godot in New Orleans (2007) and Mike Nelson's A Psychic Vacuum. Previous to Creative Time, he worked as Curator at MASS MoCA where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions such as The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere (2004), a survey of political art of the 1990s with a catalogue distributed by MIT Press. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including BookForum, Art Journal, tema celeste, Parkett, Cabinet, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The College Art Association awarded him for distinguished writing in Art Journal in 2004. He recently curated an exhibition for Independent Curators International titled Experimental Geography with a book available by Melville House Publishing.

MEREDITH JOHNSON, CURATOR AND DIRECTOR OF CONSULTING
Meredith Johnson came to Creative Time in 2007, where she has curated and produced such projects as Stephen Vitiello's, A Bell for Every Minute, Spencer Finch's The River That Flows Both Ways, and Pae White's Self Roaming. She has also led the organization's consulting arm, curating video programs for Art Basel Miami Beach and Jet Blue's Terminal 5, and authoring the City of Louisville's Public Art Master Plan. In addition to her work at Creative Time, Johnson was a curator at Artists Space in New York from 2007–2009. Prior to coming to Creative Time, she was the Assistant Director at Minetta Brook, an organization that presented projects like Robert Smithson's Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island and Watershed: The Hudson Valley Art Project. Johnson regularly lectures on art in public space at universities in New York and throughout the United States. Before living in New York, she worked as an independent curator and for a number of non-profit institutions in San Francisco, CA and Washington, D.C. She received her BA in Art from St. Mary's College of Maryland and her MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts.

TOM FINKELPEARL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Tom Finkelpearl is the Executive Director of the Queens Museum of Art where he is working on an expansion that will double the size of the Museum. The Queens Museum of Art is situated in America's most ethnically diverse county, and it seeks to serve as a cultural bridge in the community. He spent 12 years at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center where he organized 15 exhibitions in the 1980's, returning in 1999 as Deputy Director and working on the organization's merger with the Museum of Modern Art. Between his P.S.1 stints, he worked for six years (1990-96) as Director of New York City's Percent for Art Program where he organized over 130 public art projects and as Executive Director of Program at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a residency program in Maine for advanced visual artists (1996-1999). Based on his public art experience and further research, he published a book, Dialogues in Public Art (MIT Press, 2000).

HITOMI IWASAKI, DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITIONS/CURATOR
Hitomi Iwasaki has been a member of the QMA curatorial staff since 1996. She has organized a number of group exhibitions of emerging artists including two of the past Queens International biennial exhibits 2002 and 2004, and numerous solo and group project exhibitions with emerging and mid-career artists including Patty Chang, Silvia Grunner, Luca Buvoli, Nic Hess, Christian Marclay, Sara Oppenheimer, Lisa Sigal, Carlos Amorarles, and Ester Pertigas among many others. Most recently Hitomi has initiated Launch Pad, the QMA's first artist-in-residence program to create socially-engaged site-specific projects with O Zhang, Johanna Unzueta, Duke Riley and Daniel Bozhkov, and others.