CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AVA Lab 2025 (extended 3/23)
AVA LAB 2025
This program is a 9+ week hybrid seminar, professional practices, and cultural organizing intensive and is intended to develop and mentor APA visual artists looking to deepen their praxis in and with community, rooted in KSW’s organizational praxis of Solidarity, Renewal, Futurity, and Autonomy.
Facilitated through community responsive, healing justice, and emergent lenses in order to not only equip artists to navigate institutions, but to also cultivate community spaces
Professional development and community building that examines and decolonizes our relations to land and community with 9 weeks of workshops including:
Artist statement + bio writing
Grant writing & residency applications
Career planning/goal setting
Introduction to exhibition planning
Guest lectures by: Johanna Poethig, Nancy Hom, Cece Carpio, Dara del Rosario, Christine Wong Yap, and more TBA
Selected artists participate in project-based learning through developing the programming and marketing of an exhibition of their own works, curated by mentor Kim Acebo Arteche
A retreat planned around deepening our relationship to land, body, and spirit is set to close out the program for the cohort.
Tuition: $600 (Limited scholarships are available, with one scholarship designated for a visual artist of Pacific Islander descent.)
Application fee is $10 (fee waivers are available upon request)
Important Dates:
Applications open: Feb 14–March 23
Announcements: April 11
Program: May 14–July 19
Cohort Meetings: Wednesday evenings 6:15-8:30Exhibition: July 19–August 16
Retreat: September 11–14
Participant Commitment/Schedule
Cohort Meetings: Wednesday evenings 6:15-8:30
May 1 or 2 TBD: Cohort Happy Hour
May 14: Meeting 1
May 21: Meeting 2
May 28: Meeting 3
June 4: Meeting 4
June 11: Meeting 5
June 18: Meeting 6
June 25: Meeting 7
July 2: Meeting 8
July 13-18: Install Week
installation schedule TBD
July 19 - August 16: Exhibition
Exhibition opening July 19
Public programs TBD
Sept 11-14 Retreat