TAKING NEW MEMBER APPLICATIONS FOR OUR 2025-2026 CYCLE!
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TAKING NEW MEMBER APPLICATIONS FOR OUR 2025-2026 CYCLE! 〰️
NEW MEMBER APPLICATION
DEADLINE DECEMBER 8th, 11:59pm
The Front is currently taking applications for new members for our next two-year cycle. We seek visual artists and curators who reflect the diversity of the New Orleans art landscape.
During the two-year cycle, members will exhibit and/or curate shows in all four rooms of the gallery. This application is for our next lease cycle, which begins February 2025, and all members will be invited to renew their two year lease at the end of 2026.
Membership Details below. Please contact nolafront@gmail.com with any questions!
MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES:
Great potential for grants, shows, and recognition both in and outside of New Orleans.
Four opportunities to independently show, curate, and host events in the gallery space over the course of a two year lease cycle (plus additional opportunities with group shows).
Website presence including an individual artist page with images and links to socials, announcements about upcoming shows, and archives of past shows.
Publicity via social media, our monthly eNewsletter, and our website
Inclusion in our catalog, a publication we put out after each membership cycle documenting the work of members, shows, and events at The Front.
Gallery exchanges with other artist-run spaces nationally and internationally.
Exhibitions at The Front have garnered the attention of bloggers and art critics alike with reviews in publications from The Times Picayune, to Art in America, Burnaway Magazine, Antigravity, and Art Papers.
Each member is at liberty to sell their work with sales transactions conducted directly between the artist and collector, with the artist receiving 100% of sales revenue.
An invigorating community of fellow artists to work with.
BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES OF A FRONT MEMBERSHIP
A membership at The Front has many advantages, but also entails a commitment to fostering community and advancing the goals of our collective. Duties at The Front usually average about 10 hours a month outside of install and deinstall hours. (Members have autonomy in choosing their gallery sitting + bartending shifts; depending on individual scheduling of those shifts along with fluctuating committee + gallery job requirements, this can be less than 10 hours some months and up to 20 hours other months).
Duties include:
$90 per month in dues.* This covers the majority of rent, utilities, and other expenses associated with running the space.
*There is room in the application to express whether the fee is a barrier for you.Fundraising is an important part of being a member, while there is a committee that specifically organizes and devises plans for this, it is all of our responsibilities’ to participate in these efforts. (This may include additional bartending shifts).
Commitment to the gallery for 24 months.
Attendance at the monthly group meeting.
Each member is required to participate in at least one committee (ex: grant-writing committee, gallery exchange committee, and good-times committee). The committees meet on an fluctuant-basis depending on that committee’s role in The Front.
Taking on a gallery job (ex: website and instagram manager, yard-tender, email-checker, secretary, treasurer, beer buyer, e-blast sender, etc.).
Gallery sitting an estimated 12 times over the course of the two year lease, Saturday or Sunday, 12-5 pm.
Bartending during openings. This amounts to roughly 5 bartending shifts a year.
Members must reside within the greater New Orleans area. Art student applicants must graduate by December 31st, 2024.
