Summer Exhibition Wassaic Project

Each year, we hold open calls for our Summer Exhibition, Summer Residency, Winter Residency, and Haunted Mill. 

Summer Exhibition

Applications are run through our SlideRoom portal. Notification of acceptance will occur within 60 days of the application due date. Accepted applicants will have 7 days to commit to the exhibition.

Review Process

‍Applicants are evaluated by our Co-Directors — Eve, Bowie, and Jeff — and our Director of Artistic Programming, Will. Artists are selected based on the quality of the work and how well a given piece fits alongside other pieces selected for the show.

Don’t overthink this. There’s no one thing we’re looking for, and we’re always open to creative new uses of Maxon Mills as an exhibition space.
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Application Requirements

• Contact info

• CV or publication list (3 pages max)

• Project proposal

• Portfolio

• $25 application fee

Project Proposals

We accept four types of proposals for our summer programming: ready-to-hang work, site-specific installations, temporary installations/performances, and printed works. Your application can include multiple proposals.

For all proposals, include:

• A formal description of the work you would like to show.

• A three-sentence conceptual description of the work you would like to show or your artistic practice more generally.

• A note about any special circumstances you anticipate around the installation of your work. We have limited equipment available, so we need to know in advance if you require anything specific.

For ready-to-hang work proposals:‍

‍Please outline any special circumstances you anticipate around the installation of your work. We have limited equipment available, so we need to know in advance if you require anything specific.
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For site-specific installation proposals:

‍Please include completed past works, drawings and/or style references, and explain how the piece will look or function.

Artists interested in creating a site-specific installation are also eligible for an Exhibitions Fellowship to help realize their work. No separate application is needed for the Exhibitions Fellowship, and acceptance of the fellowship — should it be offered — is entirely optional. Artists interested in making site-specific work for the exhibition should still apply regardless of whether or not they are interested in or able to be in residence in April or May.
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For temporary installations or performances for the Summer Festival Program:
‍Please explain how the piece will look or function.

Portfolio

Provide 1 to 10 work samples, including title, year, medium, and dimensions, and anything else we should know.

Size requirements:

• Images — up to 5mb each, in jpg format

• Video — up to 250MB each

• Audio —up to 30MB each

• PDFs — up to 10MB each

• If your work is time-based or has video documentation, you may also link to media from YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud.

Please label each file as: LastName_FirstName_Title_Year.

Please include full information for each work as well: title, date, medium and dimensions, and any other pertinent information which will help us better understand your work.

If you have additional questions, see our Summer Exhibition FAQ. If you still have questions, email our Programming Coordinator, danielle@wassaicproject.org.