The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Call For Public Art Applications
Deadline : 10 October, 2008
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation supports projects which are genuinely original in their field. This included supporting professional artists and arts organisations, usually at an early research and development stage. 2008 will be the third and final year of the Arts in Public Spaces programme and, although existing commitments to a few projects in urban areas will be honoured, those in rural areas will be prioritised. The programme offers early research and development support for activities leading to imaginative and unusual projects devised for rural and non-conventional locations.
More information and application
www.gulbenkian.org.uk/grant-programmes/arts
About
The Foundation’s art theme supports professional artists and UK based arts organisations, usually at an early research and development stage. Its focus is on the support of the making of original and imaginative new work, particularly that which may involve the commissioning of international artists or collaboration with international arts agencies.
Within our overall aims, the Foundation is currently supporting four high-profile flagship partnerships, with whom we have a sustained relationship. These are:
the Liverpool Biennial International Festival of Contemporary Art – the Gulbenkian European Commissions, from 2008–10;
Tate Britain – the Gulbenkian Curatorship for the Tate Triennial 2009, from 2007–09;
the Galapagos Conservation Trust – the Gulbenkian Artists’ Residency Programme, for a three-year programme of residencies from 2007–09, to make new work addressing the challenges faced by the islands as an area of outstanding environmental importance in the context of global expansionism;
the Natural History Museum – the Gulbenkian Art/Science programme
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