The Trust for Governors Island announced today the opening of its 2025 open call for the seasonal Organizations in Residence program.
Presented through Governors Island Arts, the program offers an exciting opportunity for arts and cultural nonprofits to share their work with the public and advance their missions in a setting unlike anywhere else in New York City. Starting today, New York-based organizations are invited to submit an application to present exhibitions and public programs in historic spaces on Governors Island between May and October 2025. Selected organizations will receive space free of charge in the historic former military houses in Nolan Park and in Colonels Row.
“… help to breathe new life into the Island’s historic spaces …”
“We are excited for another year of inviting our city’s nonprofit arts and cultural community to create on Governors Island,” said Lauren Haynes, Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President at the Trust for Governors Island. “The Organizations in Residence program and the myriad artists and cultural practitioners that participate each year help to breathe new life into the Island’s historic spaces while providing thought-provoking exhibitions, installations, workshops, and public programs for the Island’s nearly one million annual visitors.”
Reflecting the diversity of New York City, Governors Island Arts’ seasonal Organizations in Residence present an incredible range of dynamic programming to Governors Island visitors each year. They join a collaborative Island community of leading cultural groups from across New York, who present programs in the fields of visual and performing arts, history, architecture and design, climate change, ecology, sustainability, and more. Together, the Island’s resident organizations hold more than 100 free, public exhibitions and outdoor projects each year, as well as provide studios and workspace to hundreds of artists, writers, researchers, and other cultural practitioners.
Recent organizations selected as part of this program have included the New York Latin American Art Triennial, American Indian Community House, ArtCrawl Harlem, BronxArtSpace, Staten Island Urban Center, the West Harlem Art Fund, Lower Eastside Girls Club, Fountain House Gallery, Flux Factory, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), Filmshop, New York Arts Program, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), Taiwanese American Arts Council, Residency Unlimited, and the Climate Imaginarium, among many others.
The full application is available at www.govisland.org/permits. Applications will be accepted through October 20, 2024, and applicants will be notified by November 11, 2024.
“… commitment to connecting with diverse audiences; and engagement …”
Proposals will be evaluated based on the overall quality of the proposed program; fit and alignment with the Island’s dynamic arts, cultural and educational programming; track record of conceptualizing, producing, and organizing other programs and events; commitment to connecting with diverse audiences; and engagement with the Island as a site, including its history, ecology, architecture, and relationship to the rest of New York City.
Governors Island Arts
Governors Island Arts, the public arts and cultural program presented by the Trust for Governors Island, creates transformative encounters with art for all New Yorkers, inviting artists and researchers to engage with the issues of our time in the context of the Island’s layered histories, environments, and architecture. Governors Island Arts achieves this mission through temporary and long-term public art commissions, an annual Organization in Residence program in the Island’s historic houses, and free public programs and events in partnership with a wide range of cross-disciplinary NYC cultural organizations.
Governors Island Arts presents its programming with the visionary support of the Ford Foundation, as well the Mellon Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, Donald R. Mullen Family Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Gottesman Fund, Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Trust for Governors Island
The Trust for Governors Island is the nonprofit corporation created by the City of New York that is responsible for the redevelopment and operation of 150 acres of Governors Island. The Trust’s mission is to realize the full potential of Governors Island for the inspiration and enjoyment of all New Yorkers, demonstrating a bold vision for public space. For more information, visit www.govisland.org
Photo credit: Open Studios with ArtCrawl Harlem 2023 Artist in Residence Sandy Clafford_photo by Luck Van Cott.
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