The Wormfarm Institute is happy to announce a nationwide call for artist proposals for its biennial Farm/Artwork DTour on October 5–14, 2024. Described as an “agri/cultural tour,” the DTour is a self-guided drive by means of 50 miles of Sauk County, Wisconsin, situated on the sting of the famed Driftless Space. Vacationers expertise scenic, winding roads and dealing farmlands punctuated by non permanent site-responsive artworks, pasture performances, roadside poetry, academic Area Notes, native meals markets, and extra. The Farm/Art DTour attracts hundreds of tourists from the area and throughout the nation with its invitation to expertise a panorama and rural communities the place farming performs a central, although altering, function.

Wormfarm will fee as much as 10 artists to create large-scale, out of doors tasks that can be quickly put in at varied places alongside the DTour route. The request for proposals invitations artists from all backgrounds and places to use, together with those that are formally educated and those that are self-taught. The choice standards consists of:

  • Inventive excellence
  • Visible impression
  • Demonstrated means to understand idea
  • Feasibility of the undertaking within the context of the bigger occasion
  • How the proposal suits throughout the broader curatorial vision
  • Website and/or neighborhood responsiveness

Proposals can be reviewed by a jury, which is able to choose 15 finalists for an orientation in Sauk County this spring. As much as 10 DTour artists can be chosen from the group of finalists.

Funding assist ranges from $5,000 to $10,000 and a stipend is accessible for finalists. The deadline to use is February 12, 2024.

For extra info, go to wormfarminstitute.org.

Questions could also be directed to info@wormfarminstitute.org.