Gary LaPointe Jr.
May 14 - June 5, 2022
BOUNDARYMIND
May 28, 2022
Anatomy for Interiors
June 11 - June 12, 2022
Carole McCurdy
June 2022
Melon Sprout + Clark Woods
July 2022
WATCHTOWER
July 2022
Lauren Sudbrink
July 2022
Cherrie Yu
August 2022
Kevin Norris
August 2022
Chloe Munkenbeck
September 10 - October 9, 2022
Anna Martine Whitehead
October 22 - November 20, 2022
Dalila Sanabria
December 3, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Jared Brown
J. Kent
Julia Klein
John-Michael Korpal
JeeYeun Lee
AJ McClenon
Izah Ransohoff + Ruby T
JI Yang
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 2022 deadlines for proposal review occur on June 10 and December 10, and during these reviews Roman Susan will be considering short-run projects, one-nighters, and exhibitions for 2023. 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; and ongoing Mapping of 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:Share new work;
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 2023:
Exhibitions = $1,000
Short-run and one-night projects = $300
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).