To celebrate and amplify creative voices in New York’s Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Queens invites working artists based in New York City who self-identify as AAPI to submit designs for the Noguchi Museum’s outdoor banners in its second annual Open Call for Artist Banners. Students who are candidates for art or design related degrees are not eligible to apply.
As a witness to international conflicts in the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi viewed the violence of his own times as symptomatic of an erosion of a sense of shared humanity and a loss of communal bonds. With Noguchi’s many efforts to address these circumstances in mind, the Museum’s organizing committee, an intergenerational and cross-departmental group of staff volunteers, have chosen to center the 2022 Open Call for Artist Banners around the theme of peace.
Designs will be selected by the Noguchi Museum’s organizing committee and special guest jurors Asian American Arts Alliance (A4), Toshiko Mori, and Christine Park.
The winning designs will be revealed on the 118th anniversary of Isamu Noguchi’s birth: Thursday, November 17, 2022. The winning artist will have their designs installed on the Museum’s outdoor banners for one year, from November 2022 through November 2023, and will receive an honorarium of $3,500. Two runners-up will each receive an honorarium of $2,500. All three artists will lead a public program in the spring of 2023, along with an artist talk to highlight their project and celebrate the AAPI community during a free admission day. They will also be featured on the Museum’s website and social media, including a filmed interview.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, August 22, 2022.
For the full details, and to apply, please visit: noguchi.org/open-call-for-artist-banners
