Calling All Artists: Apply to Be Culver City's Next Artist Laureate!

Published on February 06, 2025

 Are you an artist interested in serving as Artist Laureate for a diverse, creative city with engaged residents and a thriving art community? Here’s your opportunity! Submit a letter of interest to the Culver City Cultural Affairs Division to start your two-phase application process to be the City of Culver City Artist Laureate.

The application includes a letter of interest and an online application. The Artist Laureate’s tenure is a two-year, funded appointment that starts July 1, 2025, and ends June 30, 2027. For more information on the role, please visit the Artist Laureate webpage.

The program is open to all artists in three disciplines:

• Fine and Visual Arts: 2-Dimensional, 3-Dimensional, and New Genre/New Media,
• Performing Arts: Music, Dance, Theater, Spoken Word, and Performance Art
• Literary Arts: Poetry, Novels, Essays, Short Stories, Stage Plays, and Screenplays

Program Goals:

• Collaborate with City staff, the Cultural Affairs Commission’s Artist Laureate Subcommittee, and project partners
• Inspire diverse residents to foster a greater appreciation of the arts
• Represent the City through engaging and conceptually driven, original works stimulated by and in response to the local communities
• Cultivate critical thinking from and connections to the arts through public displays, in-person workshops and programs, and civic events
• Increase the accessibility of your art form to residents in their everyday lives
• Explore the diversity of the City and get to know the local communities
• Create original art that celebrates the City’s geography, cultures, and/or histories

In your Letter of Interest, please include a written narrative of 1,000 words or less that considers the following questions:

• Why are you interested in serving as Culver City’s Artist Laureate?
• Describe your passion for your primary medium.
• How do you see the Artist Laureate’s relationship to Culver City?
• Explain your methodology/approach for conceptualizing and creating art.
• Please demonstrate a history of community collaboration and engagement, if applicable.
• What do you envision doing during your two-year tenure?
• How does your vision align with the program’s goals?
• How will you inspire and engage Culver City’s diverse and creative communities?
• Provide your professional website and/or social media handle(s), if applicable.

Please email your Letter of Interest as an attached PDF document, as well as any questions, to cultural.affairs@culvercity.org.

Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2025 at 5 PM PST.

There will be a mandatory, virtual information meeting on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 7 PM PST. Online meeting details will be provided later.

Applicants will be contacted in March 2025 to formally apply online in the second and final phase.