Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum | Social Practice Institute
We have a 10-day residency with artists and founders of the Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum's Social Practice Institute. The only museum of its kind in North Carolina focused on Jewish artists' experience, culture, faith, and identity in the Southern U.S.
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No worries please join us virtually for the Artist Talk! 7-8pm EST
ABOUT THE SOCIAL PRACTICE INSTITUTE (SPI) + RESIDENCY
The GCJM Social Practice Institute and artist residency trains Jewish identifying southern-based artists in the pedagogy of socially engaged art practice alongside a curriculum of Jewish thought leadership. We award up to six Jewish artists living in the U.S. South (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia) a safe and generative space to converse about and explore contemporary Jewish experience while expanding their art practice. The SPI participating artists will gather in residence for two weeks at Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC to interpret, disrupt, narrate and reimagine contemporary Jewish life and experience through the development and implementation of relevant and timely socially engaged artworks. The subsidized training provided by the Institute will support each artist in designing and carrying out a social practice artwork that intersects with and engages the Jewish community in Greensboro, NC and their hometowns. Artists and collectives selected for this program are at all stages in their careers and work in any art form.
GOALS: WHAT MAKES THE SOCIAL PRACTICE INSTITUTE UNIQUE?
The GCJM Social Practice Institute aims to support and invest in Jewish creatives from a multitude of disciplines whose work has the potential to impact the Jewish cultural landscape at large. We explore aspects of identity specific to Jewish artists in the U.S. South while touching upon universally relevant identity intersections within Jewish life and practice. The Institute’s goal is to provide participating artists with training, support and opportunities that help develop socially engaged artistic practices that will deepen an understanding of contemporary Jewish experience for public audiences. Participating artists become part of a living, interdisciplinary, and collaborative network of Jewish cultural creatives in the South.
We have chosen to partner with Elsewhere Museum because of their unique approach to and facility for hosting artist residencies, their history as a Jewish site in Greensboro, NC and our prior experiences of collaboration.