Bumpkin Island Art Encampment

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MONDAY, MAY 4, 2009

In collaboration with the Boston Harbor Island Alliance, Studio Soto, and the Berwick Research Institute, the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment invites proposals for a unique opportunity to live and work in Boston's largest national park area. Starting Thursday, July 30 and continuing through Monday, August 3, 2009, eight artists/artist groups will each be awarded one plot of prime, arable land on an island in Boston Harbor. As "homesteaders" for five days, they will:

* Build some kind of "home" on the land,
* Live on the land for five days, and
* Improve the land via a site-specific temporary project, performance or installation.

Projects will respond to the environment, as defined in the broadest sense. Projects may reflect the island's natural and human history, the cultural context of homesteading, utopian communities, adaptive practice, or other themes. As a starting point for projects, artists may bring only the tools and supplies they themselves can physically carry on to the land, including everything they need to sleep and survive for five days.

Short, one-page proposals are due to [email protected] by Monday, May 4, 2009. Selected artists will be notified on or before June 8, 2009.

For full application instructions, timeline, and frequently asked questions, please visit:
http://www.berwickinstitute.org/bri/bumpkinisland