Visiting Curator Program
Application Deadline: August 30, 2024
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists presents the 2025 Visiting Curator Exhibition:
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists invites you to submit images of your artwork for review by our guest curator, Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Independent Curator. Of the applicants, 10 to 25 artists will be selected to present a digital portfolio of 10 additional images. Of those artists, 1-3 will be selected for an exhibition in CFEVA’s Felicity R. “Bebe” Benoliel Gallery.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter is an independent curator and writer. In 2023, she received the American Association for State and Local History Award of Excellence for her exhibition Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture (2021) at the California African American Museum (CAAM). Prior to doing independent projects, Bythewood-Porter was an Assistant Curator at CAAM. During her tenure, she has co-curated several exhibitions including Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Speaking to Falling Seeds (2023), Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century (2020), Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940 (2019), The Liberator: Chronicling Black Los Angeles, 1900–1914 (2019), California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865 (2018), and Los Angeles Freedom Rally, 1963 (2018), and also contributed to How Sweet the Sound: The History of Gospel Music in Los Angeles (2018), Circles and Circuits 1: History and Art of the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora (2017), and Lezley Saar: Salon des Refúse (2017). She holds a Master of Arts in art business with a concentration in contemporary art from Sotheby's Institute of Art at Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a focus on public relations and journalism and a minor in art history from Monmouth University.
The Visiting Curator Program allows artists from our region to connect with a curator who is not yet familiar with our artist community. CFEVA is proud to create more exposure for the artists we serve and provide beneficial new leads for noteworthy curators.
Application Deadline: August 30, 2024
Exhibition: January-February 2025
Details and Requirements
To apply please visit https://cfeva.slideroom.com/ Artists will be asked to provide a resume, artist statement, image list and five images. The total application fee is $20 (this includes the fee to use Slideroom). Artists must reside within 100 miles of Philadelphia and must not currently be a student.
CFEVA Core Plus Artist Members, please contact Lily@cfeva.org to waive your application fee before submission.
For more information please contact Genevieve Coutroubis at (215) 546-7775 x11 or genevieve@cfeva.org.