CALLS FOR ARTISTS: Extreme Heat Fellowship / Exhibit-- Ecocide: Nature in the Shadow of War

The Crow’s Nest, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University (JHU), will be providing up to three fully subsidized studio residencies from March-October 2024. The selected cohort of artists will work towards a group show themed around the public health and ecological challenge of extreme heat, particularly as it relates to urban heat and its impact on Baltimore communities. Each artist will receive $3,300 in honoraria to complete the work and dedicated studio space at the Crow’s Nest art incubator in downtown Baltimore. Artists will also benefit from the opportunity to interact with JHU researchers, sit in on relevant lectures, meet public health professionals, and will have the opportunity to propose additional programming. We are not seeking artists who are currently full-time students. If you will be a full time student for only the first half of the fellowship and graduating in Spring 2025, please be extremely mindful of your ability to participate in all programming.

For our April show, we are calling on artists residing in the United States for visual artwork of any medium that addresses the theme of ecocide, particularly in the context of armed conflict.We want to bring attention not only to the destruction but also to efforts to resist ecocide, restore the land, and begin to heal some of ecocide’s wounds. All works will be exhibited at the art gallery in the Crow’s Nest, in downtown Baltimore. We are extremely interested in work that centers a connection to nature as a form of resistance in places affected by ecocide. A $10 application fee supports the administrative costs of this exhibit & providing honorariums. Application fees may be sent via venmo to @crowsnestbaltimore. One application may include up to 3 pieces of artwork and 15 attached images. Marginalized artists from affected backgrounds, or facing other prohibitive circumstances– please email alexi@crowsnestbaltimore.com to acquire a fee waiver. Applications will not be considered complete until the application fee or fee waiver have been confirmed.