broadway stages’ arts residency award

This open call for a site-specific art installation that will remain on view on the Upper Meadow of the Kingsland Wildflowers rooftop community garden throughout the entire outdoor season of 2024.

The installation should be non-intrusive, focus on sustainability, reflect on nature, and take into consideration the mission and vision of the WE ARE NATURE Series and the surrounding environment on and around the Kingsland Wildflowers rooftops, and reflect this season’s theme.

Important Dates:

Installation Timeline: Early-Mid June

Opening Night: June 20th, 2024

Takedown: Last week of October - Early November

Artist Contribution:

We expect the awardee to install the piece between June 10th-19th and attend the season-opening event (June 20th) where we will present their work to our audiences. The artist is fully responsible for installing and de-installing their work within the noted timeframes. We prefer that the artist is NY (or TriState Area) based so they can attend other events during the season where their work would be highlighted and do monthly check-ins on their work to ensure it is still in the right state.

Residency Period:

June 20th - October 27, 2024

Season's Title + Theme:

The theme for the 2024 A Vibrant Tapestry:

NOoSPHERE Arts’ guiding philosophy is the holistic view that sees the world not as a collection of separate objects, but rather as a web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole. Modern physics proves what mystical traditions have always known: all parts of the cosmos are interconnected and everything is in a state of dynamic flow.

The constant flux of nature gives rise to novel and diverse forms. A healthy organism integrates emerging variations without losing balance. In these times of opposing factions at seemingly every turn, it is helpful to remember that a multitude of colors and shapes are needed to make up the rich, resplendent, and resilient tapestry that is life. We are all part of a web in which no part is more fundamental than any other.

NOoSPHERE Arts’ long-time mentor and collaborator, leading systems thinker Fritjof Capra, says that ecological awareness, at the deepest level, is the intuitive awareness of the oneness of all life, the interdependence of its multiple manifestations and its cycles of change and transformation. He suggests that spirituality could be defined as the mode of consciousness in which we feel connected to the cosmos as a whole. We now know that whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.