Olive Stefanski
August 7 - August 29, 2021
Sasha Phyars-Burgess
September 3 - September 5, 2021
Christopher Smith
September 18 - October 10, 2021
Mark Alcazar Diaz
September 25 + October 16, 2021
Juneer Kibria + Izah Ransohoff
October 29 - November 21, 2021
Kevin Stuart
December 2021
WATCHTOWER 12-12-12
Winter 2022
Julia Klein
Winter 2022
Lauren Sudbrink
Future
A.P. Vague
Future
Anna Martine Whitehead
Future
Cherrie Yu
Future
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 cutoff deadlines for proposal review occur on June 10 and December 10, considering short-run projects, one-nighters, and exhibitions for 2022. 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. In addition to full project proposals, Roman Susan currently has the following calls for artists: Annotations & Inserts; Land Acknowledgment Readers; installation and streetview Moving Image; and movement/performance-focused Storefront Residencies. 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
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).