Kevin Stuart
December 4 - January 2, 2022
WATCHTOWER 12-12-12
January 11 - January 22, 2022
A.P. Vague
April 2 - April 24, 2022
Gary LaPointe Jr.
May 14 - June 5, 2022
J. Kent
Julia Klein
John-Michael Korpal
JeeYeun Lee
AJ McClenon
Carole McCurdy
Kevin Norris
Melon Sprout + Clark Woods
Lauren Sudbrink
Anna Martine Whitehead
JI Yang
Cherrie Yu
Open Proposals
Have an idea for a project or community event you think would be a good fit at Roman Susan? We are happy to review all proposals, and will reply to submitted ideas with potential availability on a seasonal basis. The 2021 deadlines for proposal review occur on June 10 and December 10, considering short-run projects, one-nighters, and exhibitions for Fall 2022 and beyond. Selected proposals receive artist stipends, scaled to the duration of the project. To propose a project, please send a detailed outline in any format of your choice to proposals@romansusan.org.
Please see below for further proposal guidelines. Following the submission deadlines, all proposals are reviewed by community volunteers, and then selected by popular consensus among Roman Susan directors. Notification of the proposal status generally occurs within 50 days of the review deadlines. If you would be interested in volunteering to review incoming artist proposals in the future, please sign up at Proposal Review Volunteers.
In addition to full project proposals, Roman Susan currently has the following calls for artist participation: Annotations & Inserts in public library spaces; Land Acknowledgment Readers; installation and streetview Moving Image; movement/performance-focused Storefront Residencies; and ongoing Mapping the cultural space in the North Lakeside neighborhoods of Edgewater, Rogers Park, and Uptown in Chicago. You may also be interested in our list of other Chicagoland art spaces that accept artist proposals.
Roman Susan favors proposals which:Engage our neighborhood;
Reflect communities in our immediate vicinity;
Showcase Chicago and Great Lakes artists;
Transform our space;
Promote open curatorial practices; and
Compliment our current trajectory.
Scheduling (rough estimates):
Exhibitions: 10 days setup + 3 weeks exhibition + 3-4 days deconstruct = 5 weeks
Short-run projects: 1-2 days setup + 1 day event + 1 day deconstruct = 3-4 days
One-nighters: 8-24 hour same-day events
Project Honorariums:
Selected proposals receive honorariums, scaled to the duration of the project. Currently, for 2022:
Exhibitions = $500
Short-run and one-night projects = $200
Visiting our space before preparing a proposal is strongly recommended. We reside in a corner storefront, 85 meters northwest of the Loyola Red Line CTA Station, with large south-facing windows, track lighting, a sunken floor from the street with blue-gray carpet, an irregular non-load bearing plaster ceiling, and almost no storage space. The building at 1224-1234 West Loyola was built in 1928 with boiler-controlled radiator heating; work that needs a climate controlled environment should not be proposed for this storefront location. Roman Susan welcomes proposals for collaborative projects at other locations as well – see romansusan.org/annex for past programming sites.
Below are additional materials for an idea of the storefront's spatial resources:
Floorplan (pdf); Additional Measurements (pdf); Windows (pdf); and 3D model (skp).