Print Center New York

New Voices: On Futurity

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* Applications are due by 11:59pm ET on Sunday, September 8, 2024.

There is no fee to apply. New Voices is Print Center New York’s annual open call program, which provides opportunities for a curator-selected cohort of six to eight artists who engage the curator's thematic framework. Selected artists will present their work and develop their practice through: a group exhibition, artist-led public programming, focused conversation and community-building, and individualized resources for artistic and professional development. 

This application is for the 2025 cycle of New Voices, which will be centered on a group exhibition on view June 5 to August 23, 2025. Please visit printcenternewyork.org/new-voices for a full description of program features and requirements. 

Artist Eligibility

Applicants must:

• currently be living in a state or territory in the United States. Accepted cohort artists will be asked to fill out a W-9 (Request for Taxpayer Identification Number), and to provide a Tax Identification Number such as a social security number (SSN), employment identification number (EIN), or individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN).
• engage printmaking in their practice through concept, materials, or techniques. Artists do not need to identify primarily as “printmakers” to apply. The programming, relationship-building, and artist development resources included in this program are designed to support artists with an investment in the printmaking field. Artists who work exclusively in another medium (oil painting, sculpture, or photography, for example) may not be best served by this program.
• be working without institutional support from a major gallery or degree-seeking academic program. Gallery representation and support varies from place to place; you will be asked to share any gallery affiliation, and this will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applicants must be at least one year out from a degree-seeking academic program, such as an MFA or BFA, related to their practice. Applicants must not be actively enrolled, or entering such a program in the 2024-2025 academic year. 

Applications are encouraged from artists of any race, ethnicity, national origin, age, physical ability, gender identity or expression, sexuality, or other experience or identity. We welcome applications from U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, undocumented immigrants, refugees, people seeking asylum, temporary visa holders, stateless people, and those with all other citizenship and immigration statuses.

Application Materials

The application consists of: 

• Short Answers: Responses to three prompts about your practice, submitted in writing (250 words each) or as recorded verbal statements (2–3 minutes each).
• Work Samples: Up to ten (10) images of existing work created within the last four years (since January 1, 2020). Selected works do not need to be from a singular project or body of work, but should give a cohesive and holistic view of your artmaking practice.
• Curriculum Vitae: A CV including exhibition history and other relevant activity, such as residencies or fellowships (past or upcoming). 

Guiding Theme: On Futurity

As future-makers, how do we dream? What worlds or potential futures do we wish to see? What can dreaming of fantastical worlds-to-come do for us? Pursuing potentiality is a journey we must embark on collectively. From networks of care to communal resistance, how can we radically dream and consider wholly new social and political realities? 

For this iteration of New Voices, we ask artists to consider their work through themes of futurity, potentiality, world-building, and fantasy. Intentionally expansive, we encourage an open-ended exploration of these ideas, resulting in textured and multifaceted inquiries into this theme. We also encourage artists to consider how their project expands traditional understandings of printmaking practices. 

Curator: Alana Hernandez

Alana Hernandez is Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum. In her curatorial practice, Hernandez conceptualizes exhibitions and projects as relational and co-creative work with artists and develops projects that amplify intersectional and multifaceted interpretations of Latinx art. She actively engages in a curatorial and methodological model that prioritizes visibility, decentralized institutional authorship, and community-embedded agency and works directly with constituencies to facilitate meaning-making that is generative, mobilizing, and transformative. In recent years, much of Hernandez’s curatorial work centers Latinx art and artists working with print and craft-based mediums, and investigates how the aesthetic statements thus employed are integral, often-political producers of cultural consciousness. Her practice endeavors to bolster critical engagement with U.S. Latinx art that is inclusive of Afro-Latinx, Indigenous, and queer histories, underscoring that these narratives are formative to an understanding of the sociopolitical histories of this country. She has recently organized artist projects with Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, Sam Frésquez, Luis Rivera Jimenez, Alejandro Macias, and Sarah Zapata. 

For questions, please visit the program website and applicant support resources. For additional support, please contact Robin Siddall, Exhibitions and Programs Coordinator, at programs@printcenternewyork.org with the subject line "New Voices 2025 Additional Support."

We look forward to reviewing your application!