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Floyd Newsum Summer Studios Mentorship + Residency Program

In 2025, Project Row Houses’ (PRH) Floyd Newsum Summer Studios Mentorship + Residency Program will accept ten undergraduate students for an exclusive opportunity to learn and grow their creative practice in the historic neighborhood of Houston’s Third Ward.

This program honors the late PRH co-founder, artist, and educator, Floyd Newsum, and his commitment to supporting student artists. Eligible applicants will apply through Slideroom before Monday, April 7, 2025, to be considered for this opportunity.

The program will begin on Tuesday, May 13 with a two-week intensive of masterclasses and workshops, followed by an 6-week studio residency period starting Monday, June 16, that will culminate in a public exhibition opening on Saturday, August 2, 2025.

Requirements:

Currently or recently (within 1-year) enrolled in an academic program at a 2-year college or 4-year university in Houston or the surrounding area (50 miles)
Citizen of the United States
Have an interest in incorporating social sculpture and community-engaged art within their practice
Visual artists, performance artists, or arts professionals interested in writing, curating, or other disciplines.

Selected Summer Studios students receive:

$1,000 stipend
Free studio space at Project Row Houses
Mentorship with esteemed Houston-based artists

LEARN MORE: https://projectrowhouses.slideroom.com/#/login/program/82854

The Idea Fund

The Idea Fund is a re-granting program administered by a partnership of DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Idea Fund supports individual artists, curators, collectives, collaboratives or partnerships in the greater Houston area. Grant recipients receive funding for projects that exemplify unconventional, participatory or social practice, conceptual, innovative or entrepreneurial, or activist artistic practices. Grants are competitive and awarded by a panel consisting of arts professionals from around the country and a past Idea Fund grant recipient.

The Idea Fund will provide 12 grants of $5,000 each to individual artists or collectives in the Greater Houston Area.

The grants will support innovative, experimental, public-facing visual art projects that expand our understanding of how art exists in the world, address community needs, or exemplify new ways of working in, for, and with community.

PRH offers a plethora of opportunities to artists, but one of the things that artists need most is space – a space to work and allow their ideas to take shape. Affordable studio space can be a rarity in many cities, and we are proud to have the studios on campus available to artists from our community. Our current studio artists include Rabéa Ballin, Brian Ellison and Anthony Suber.

Due to capacity, we do not have any available studio spaces at this time.

Project proposals should be emailed and include a written proposal of no more than 1000 words, an artist/curatorial statement describing the scope of your practice/project, a resume or cv, and 10-12 high-res images of artwork. Please submit proposals to info@projectrowhouses.org with the subject line: “Art program project proposals.” Submissions are reviewed on a quarterly basis.

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