Call to Artists
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) is a thematic annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public spaces. Using Magnolia Street, Orlando as a laboratory, this project continues AiOPʼs work to locate cracks in public space policies, and to inspire the popular imagination for new possibilities and engagement with civic space. Visit the website www.artinoddplaces.org/orlando AiOP is a project of GOH Productions.
Art in Odd Places Orlando invites proposals for the Orlando AiOP that will take place on September 17-20 in Downtown Orlando, Florida. AiOP is a visual and performance public art festival that welcomes proposals and artworks from all over. The projects will engage and collaborate with the public and public spaces from artists of all disciplines, experiences and mediums. Artists, artist groups, collaborations, classes, performers, dancers, dance groups, or creative leaders of any sort residing in the States, as well as internationally, are eligible to apply.
This yearʼs theme is TONE and AiOP Orlando will select and curate artworks that address any concepts within the gradient of TONE. TONE can include, but is not limited to, the notions of sound, music, tuning, resonance, timbre, tone of voice, inflection, attitude, color, brightness or deepness of hue, rhetoric, strength, overtone, undertone, character, emphasis, resonance, approach, feel, manner, mood, quality, hue plus grey, firmness or skin tone.
Participation in AiOP includes access to a growing community of like-minded artists, curators, and makers working in the public realm. Project consultation can be provided as well as advice for artists with a studio practice wanting to work in the public realm The first information session will be held on March 28, 2pm - The Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 South Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL. Applications will be due on May 15, 2015. Visit www.artinoddplaces.org/orlando for guidelines and to apply.
“Iʼm hoping that the festival will bring together international, national, and regional artists of many disciplines and also engage the diverse cultural communities of Orlando”, says Ed Woodham, AiOP founder & director.
AiOP 2015: TONE/ORLANDO is produced by the Downtown Arts District, Inc. with Co-Curators: Patrick Greene, Greg Leibowitz, and Genevieve Bernard, AiOP Founder and Director: Ed Woodham, AiOP Orlando Manager: Barbara Hartley, Website Designer + Developer: Carey Estes, Curatorial Assistant: Carolyn Johnson, Social Media Manager: Vanessa Andrade.
About Art in Odd Places
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) began as an action by a group of artists led by Ed Woodham to encourage local participation in the Cultural Olympiad of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. In 2005, after moving back to New York City, he re imagined it as a response to the dwindling of public space and personal civil liberties – first in the Lower East Side and East Village, and since 2008, on 14th Street in Manhattan. AiOP has always been a grassroots project fueled by the goodwill and inventiveness of its participants.