The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable is a service organization and a community of arts education practitioners sharing information, providing professional development, and communicating with the public to promote our work in schools and beyond.
The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable is hosting its Fifth Annual Black Women's Wellness Retreat (BWWR), scheduled to take place on September 19-21, 2025 at the Stony Point Center in New York’s Hudson Valley region. In 2021, the BWWR was created in response to events in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and its effect specifically on Black Women. At its core, the retreat centers and celebrates Black women working at the intersection of the arts, education, and cultural sectors in NYC and beyond. Participants will have the opportunity to retreat away together for a time of connection, healing and growth.
Event Application Timeline:
- Application / Nomination Form Opens: Friday, May 2, 2025
- Application / Nomination Form Closes: Monday, June 2 at 11:59PM ET
- Applicants / Nominees Notified by: Monday, Jun 30, 2025
- Wellness Retreat Dates: Friday September 19 - Sunday, September 21, 2025
Please click here to access a Google Doc version of the application questions.
The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable is hosting its Fifth Annual Black Women's Wellness Retreat (BWWR), scheduled to take place on September 19-21, 2024 at the Stony Point Center in New York’s Hudson Valley region. In 2021, the BWWR was created in response to events in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and its effect specifically on Black Women. At its core, the retreat centers and celebrates Black women working at the intersection of the arts, education, and cultural sectors in NYC and beyond. Participants will have the opportunity to retreat away together for a time of connection, healing and growth.
Event Application Timeline:
- Application / Nomination Form Opens: Friday, May 2, 2025
- Application / Nomination Form Closes: Monday, June 2 at 11:59PM ET
- Applicants / Nominees Notified by: Monday, Jun 30, 2025
- Wellness Retreat Dates: Friday September 19 - Sunday, September 21, 2025
Please click here to access of Google Doc version of the nomination form questions.
CALL FOR ARTISTS – PAID OPPORTUNITY
The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable’s Task Force on Equity & Inclusion (TEI) is soliciting applications from artists of all disciplines and genres to share artwork that addresses the themes of gathering and/or good trouble for our upcoming Artist Salon: Gathering for Good Trouble on Thursday, December 11 at El Puente Brooklyn. This event is an opportunity for members of the greater arts in education community to share their work in a supportive, welcoming setting and engage in meaningful exchange and dialogue with one another. Selected artists will be compensated at a rate of $200.00.
Themes
How do artists make Good Trouble?
How do artists Gather with other artists and their community?
In 2025, we ask artists to share 2D & 3D artwork, performances, writing, film, video, multimedia and installation-based work that explores those questions. We’re excited about the enormous realm of possibilities, and how artists’ responses may draw upon a range of lived experiences, personal histories, artistic practices and aesthetic genres.
Artists from underrepresented communities are particularly encouraged to apply. This Salon is intended to uplift voices and perspectives that are too often drowned out or excluded.
Salon Vision
The Salon will showcase the work of 3-5 artists exploring issues of equity, inclusion, access and welcoming in their art forms, with a specific focus on the themes of gathering and good trouble.
The Salon themes were selected by the planning subcommittee in acknowledgement that artists thrive by gathering in community, and are often called to make good trouble through their artistic practice. The Salon themes are the pillars that will support an event, atmosphere, and dialogue that center, creativity, community, expression, and justice. They are intentionally broad and open to interpretation by artists who wish to apply.
The art in the Salon may be any of the following: provocative, confrontational, quiet, reflective, unapologetic, humorous, loud, enraged, solo, community-focused (to name but a few descriptors), as long as it ties to the event themes.
The intention is to curate an experience around the themes that celebrates artists’ work and prompts dialogue. That said, we welcome submissions of existing work, revised/remixed/repurposed work, and new complete work.
Submitting a Proposal
Submissions may include any art form, and can be static or experiential. For presentations and experiences, pieces should be limited to 5-10 minutes in length.
Submissions must have minimal needs in terms of setup. As this is a pop-up style event, setup time will be limited to 2 hours and will take place from 1:30 - 3:30pm that afternoon. Applicants are encouraged to optimize their flexibility in terms of setup, presentation, and support. For questions about the venue and setup, please contact Programs Director Kinsey Keck at kkeck@nycaieroundtable.org.
Selection Process & Timeline
Applications will be reviewed by members of the Salon & Socials Subcommittee of the Taskforce on Equity and Inclusion and Roundtable staff members. This group of arts education practitioners spans multiple arts disciplines, career paths, and experience levels and will aim to curate the Salon with a variety of genres and styles, including different perspectives on the themes & questions.
Key Dates
- Application Opens: Wednesday, May 21 at 12pm
- Application Closes: Thursday, June 26 at 7pm
- Applicants Notified: by Friday, August 8
- Salon Setup: Thursday, December 11 from 1:30 - 3:30pm
- Salon Event: Thursday, December 11 from 4:00 - 7:00pm
Access this Google doc to view the list of application questions.
Contact Programs Director Kinsey Keck at kkeck@nycaieroundtable.org with any questions.