Now’s your (paid!) chance to create original artwork for a public park in NYC

Our Brokelyn rendering of what your art might look like in Fort Greene Park. Original via Flickr user jalbertgagnier Everyone’s busy telling you that New York’s 1% is stifling the creatives and so just everyone please stop moving to New York, but come on, it’s not so bad out here for artists. At least as far as creative opportunities are concerned. In the last two weeks alone, we told you about an offer to make paid art in Quebec and a chance to present new performance works in BK. City organs are pretty fond of the artists, too. This past summer the MTA put out a call for subway station art — submissions still open! — and today, the Parks Department is asking you if you want $10,000 to make some original artwork that’ll live in one of the city’s public parks for a year. So, do you? wanna? Before you answer that, we have a social responsibility to tell you that this is… Read More

Now’s your (paid!) chance to create original artwork for a public park in NYC : Brokelyn