Apply to be a cohort member of  The Seeding Change Institute 2024-2025

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October 15, 2024-Applications Due  

October 23, 2024- Decision Made for Cohort/ Notified

Each cohort member will be paid a $3,000 artist fee

 

 

 

The Seeding Change Institute is a new initiative by Pangea World Theater and funded by The Jerome Foundation to create a generative, supportive institute for artists to strengthen their skills and critical approach to making socially engaged Art projects and work in any genre.  SCI is developed for artists by artists and those working in the arts. SCI seeks to connect artists to a larger community, to a deeper understanding of the role of the artist in social transformation and to each other. 

 

The Seeding Change Institute will be offered starting in the fall of 2024 for an 8 person cohort. At least half of the cohort will be emerging artists. SCI will offer workshops, conversations, hands-on learning with guest artists and support for new projects created by each cohort member.  During the 7 month Institute each cohort member will develop their own project alone or in collaboration with other cohort members.  There will be opportunities for the cohort to share their work with a larger audience and to have their work well documented.  The project can be a performance, dance, visual project, public art project, film, reading or anything the artist thinks up.  Each project must have a public engagement component. (Examples: The artist holds a Story Circle as part of their development of a new short performance work.  The artist collects images from a public engagement action that become part of an installation piece) The focus is on being in a place of deep inquiry and not just a production grant.  The projects do not need to be large scale and can also be the jumping off place for a larger project to develop. 

 

Outside of MFA programs there are very few opportunities for artists, writers, dancers, singers, visual artists, performers to spend time in a collective setting developing new skills and the rigor to ask big questions about their work and role as an artist.  Isolation is a central tenet of this society and this is true for Artists as well. SCI seeks to create a space where artistic community is fostered and participants are supported and challenged to grow in their artistic practice.

 

For our initial cohort in 2023 we invited ten artists and arts organizers to take part in a year-long Seeding Change Research and Creation Cohort to help us envision the institute.  The Seeding Change Research and Creation Cohort was: Diane Wilson, Sharon Day,  Sandra Agustin,  Sarah Greer,  Michael Kleber-Diggs Arleta Little,  Soyini Guyton,  Neeraj Mehta,  Va-Megn Thoj,  Diana Siegel-Garcia

 

The curators and facilitators for The Seeding Change Institute are Pangea’s Artistic Directors Meena Natarajan & Dipankar Mukherjee and Lake Street Arts! Program Director Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe. Guest artists will include Ricardo Levins Morales, Diane Wilson, Miré Regulus and more! 

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Each cohort member will be paid a $3,000 artist fee

Each cohort member will have a $300 materials budget for project 

 

For final projects any performance, film, dance, plays that come out of Seeding Change Institute will happen at Pangea World Theater with the full support of tech and staff at Pangea. For public art pieces that arrive in another way or venue Pangea will arrange as needed.  Every cohort member will have a work sample they can use for further grant proposals or artistic opportunities. 

 

IMPORTANT note.  The Seeding Change Institute only works if every cohort member is able to be at all the gatherings.  Look over the dates closely and please do not apply if you can not fully commit to all the dates.  Of course life happens and we understand that but multiple absences will not work for building this institute together.  If you want to apply and know there is one date you can not make please note in your application. 

 

October 15, 2024-Applications Due 

October 23, 2024- Decision Made for Cohort/ Notified

 

All Cohort Gatherings will be at Pangea World Theater 711 W. Lake Street, Minneapolis

except Mudluk Workshop in April at Mudluk Studios 

November 15,  2024- 6:00-8:30pm SCI Cohort first meeting dinner

November 16, 2024- 1:00-4:30pm 

December 14, 2024 1:00-4:30pm

January 25, 2025 1:00-4:30pm

February 22, 2025-1:00-4:30pm

March 22,  2025- 1:00-4:30pm

April 2025- One on One check ins with Pangea. (Zoom or in person) 

April 12, 2025 1:00-3:30pm Mudluk Workshop for Cohort 

May 10, 2025  1:00-4:30pm

May 26-29th Tech and rehearsal times will be set for Projects requiring Tech 

May 30, 2025  6:00-9:00pm Run through of entire event and Cohort Dinner

May 31, 2025  2:00-4:00pm ( reception after)  SCI Cohort Final Projects (Every cohort member will have 15 Minutes to either share a performance/reading or artist talk about their project with an Audience talk back and reception after.)

 

* Cohort members are also invited to attend all of Pangea’s programming throughout the year for free and also a rehearsal for Pangea’s Spring production. 

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Seeding Change Institute Application 

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Please send as PDF or in the body of the email to pwtseedingchange@gmail.com

Due October 15, 2024  (We will notify you on October 23, 2024)

Any questions or issues contact us at pwtseedingchange@gmail.com

Narrative Questions. We do not ask these questions looking for the right answer but to gain a sense of how you would be in the cohort and to curate eight people that will be an exciting and interesting group together.  (Please don’t sweat it!)

1. Tell us about how you came to be an artist? What inspires you to be an artist? Tell us about some of the work you have done/ created/ engaged with? Limit 300 words 

 

2. Why are you applying to this program? What is something you would like to learn during the Institute? Limit 100 words

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3.  What is something you would bring to the institute? Write to your strengths. Limit 100 words

 

4. Seeding Change Institute is a cohort and is focused on deep inquiry with other artists and guest artists.  Describe how you are in a group setting and what your strengths and challenges are for working in a cohort.  Limit 100 words

 

5. Who is an artist you admire/ learn from?  Why? Limit 200 words 

 

6. Anything else you want to add? (optional) Limit 100 words.

 

You may also share a work sample and/or your website if you have one.  For work samples (one page of writing/ 3 mins of video/ 2-5 photographs. For video a link is fine but if it’s longer than 3 minutes tell us where to start watching)  

Your Name, Title and Date of Work, Role, Any Description Needed

 

The Seeding Change Institute welcomes emerging and more established artists and takes into account that not everyone has a work sample or website.  This will not count against you in the decision making process but will help us get to know you as an artist.  

Thanks For Applying!