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The New Art Center in Newton (NAC) in Newton, MA is currently accepting proposals for exhibitions for 4 to 5 week exhibitions in the 2012-2013 exhibition cycle (September 2012 – May 2013) to be installed in the Main Gallery of the New Art Center in Newton. The Center has a 33-year tradition of using the Main Gallery for group exhibitions (two persons or more) curated by an exhibiting artist or independent curator. Since May 1991 we have continued this tradition through a public call for proposals.

Proposed exhibitions must be group exhibitions. They can include works in a single medium or several mediums, from painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and video to installation art, performance art and sound art. The proposed exhibitions can be organized around medium or process; they can investigate social, cultural, historical, theoretical or political concepts; they can do both. Proposals must include one public presentation with an educational component. Related performing arts programming such as poetry, spoken word, music and dance are also welcomed. In recent contemporary art discourse, the artist has been charged with thinking about the curatorial practice as integral to the framing and production of meaning and thus as crucial to their practice. As a result, curators may include their own work in the exhibition but it should not be the focus. In this way, the program uniquely supports the development and education of the artist as curator.

Curators of accepted proposals receive a $1,000 stipend and administrative, installation, marketing & publicity and outreach support. The application is April 9, 2012. Details and application forms are available on the New Arts Center website, or by calling Kathleen Smith at 617-964-3424.