Artist Opportunities
Fellowships
KGMCA – PRH Fellowship
The University of Houston Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts (KGMCA) and Project Row Houses (PRH) have developed a fellowship program that builds on PRH’s history of leadership in community-engaged art and social practice projects. The fellowship program brings artists, cultural practitioners, urban planners, educators, and policy makers to engage with the PRH process and the greater Houston community. For one year, two fellows are selected to become active cultural practitioners and can focus their research on community engaged creative practices. Each artist will receive a $15,000 stipend and $5,000 project budget to become cultural practitioners, focusing their research on community engaged creative practice at Project Row House.
CURRENT KGMCA FELLOW: Nadine Nelson
Nadine Nelson is a socially engaged educator, entrepreneur, chef, artist, and activist who uses food, sustainability, wellness, and domestic arts to foster community fellowship, strengthen connections, and promote food sovereignty. Inspired by her birthplace of Toronto and her Jamaican heritage, her belief is that food is a powerful tool for social justice. She uses culturally relevant programming to address preventative health measures and empower people to use cooking to cultivate wellbeing. She produces community food events and installations that bring people together through sharing cuisine, storytelling, and art inspired by culture and the potency of gathering. Her creative process involves working with community members, organizers, activists, and artists to collaboratively co-create social sculpture.
The kitchen table is our path for reconciliation, liberation, and sustenance of ourselves, our communities and the environment. Her work has been commissioned and exhibited in Boston with the Design Studio for Social Intervention, ArtSpace, New Haven Public Library, and John Ely House in New Haven. She has received fellowships from Yale University, Laundromat Project, and Center for Arts and Activism. Her writing has appeared in Plate Magazine,Yankee Magazine, Farmer’s Almanac, Kwanzaa Culinarians and more. She has a teaching certificate from Tufts University, has studied cooking at the Ritz Escoffier in Paris and the New School in New York, and farming at Sterling College and with Soul Fire Farm. She is an avid novice gardener and budding homesteader looking for land to start the ultimate ecologically conscious culinary art center.
CURRENT KGMCA FELLOW: Jody Wood
Jody Wood is an artist working in mediums of social practice, video, photography, and performance. Her recent work re-imagines routines in human service agencies, aiming to shift power dynamics and resist stigmas surrounding poverty and care. Her community-based work has been supported by prestigious institutions including A Blade of Grass, Esopus Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, an ArtPlace America Initiative at McColl Center for Art + Innovation, and through residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, and Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been presented internationally in solo exhibitions at Skövde Art Museum and Norrtälje Kunsthalle in Sweden, and group exhibitions and screenings at Manchester School of Art, UK; Parrish Museum of Art in Water Mill, NY; and Oakland Museum of California. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Atlantic, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and MSNBC. She has given public talks hosted by Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, Hunter College in NYC, University of Lisbon in Portugal, and San Jorge University in Zaragoza, Spain. She is based in Huntsville, TX and teaches at Sam Houston State University in the Art and Social Practice MFA program.
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