Call for applications: SOMA 2014
Application deadline: October 23, 2013
Calle 13 #25 Col. San Pedro de los Pinos CP 03800 Mexico City www.somamexico.org
Founded by a group of contemporary artists working in Mexico and abroad, SOMA is an organization in Mexico City dedicated to intercultural exchange.
SOMA offers a two-year program for training contemporary artists based on continuous exchange between young artists and established professionals through courses, workshops, one-on-one critiques and studio visits. SOMA’s faculty comprises artists, theorists, and curators with extensive experience in their fields, both nationally and internationally.
SOMA believes in building a platform that facilitates investigation into what art can be and how it can operate in different contexts. The program seeks to provide a space for a diversity of discussion, collective interaction and critical thinking, taking into account the many creative communities in Mexico City.
This program is for students who have already completed a bachelors degree in visual arts or related studies.
All courses are in Spanish. Recent visiting artists include Julieta Aranda, Eduardo Abaroa, Magalí Arriola, Iñaki Bonillas, Tatiana Bilbao, Amy Sarah Caroll, Helena Chávez, Minerva Cuevas, Tatiana Cuevas, Derek Dellekamp, Ricardo Domínguez, Galia Eibenshutz, Antonio Fernández Ros, Coco Fusco, Juan Gaitán, Rubén Gutiérrez, Jonathan Hernández, Sol Henaro, Carla Herrera-Prats, Enrique Jezik, Willy Kautz, Alejandra Labastida, Magali Lara, Jorge Méndez Blake, María Minera, Daniel Montero, Luis Felipe Ortega, Rafael Ortega, Raúl Ortega Ayala, Rúben Ortiz-Torres, Yoshua Okón, Víctor Palacios, Martí Perán, Daniela Pérez, Taiyana Pimentel, Manuel Rocha, María Inés Rodríguez, Daniela Rossel, Chris Sharp, Itala Schmelz, Pablo Sigg, Rogelio Sosa, Chris Sharp, Sofía Táboas, Eduardo Thomas, Laureana Toledo and Pablo Vargas Lugo.
Program objectives:
– Foster an environment for dynamic discussion where students are challenged to produce their best work through exchange and communication with their peers.
– Constantly challenge what art can be and do.
– Investigate the possibilities and importance of various artistic disciplines allowing them the ability to build and transform their context.
– Create an educational platform in which peers assist one another in developing content and processes of research.
– Highlight the relevance and effect of the political and social environment on artistic practice
– Stimulate dialogue and collaboration, as well as confront the differences between artists and cultural producers of different generations.
– Open channels of communication between various disciplines and studies, beyond those typically associated with artistic production: musicians, architects, curators, critics, filmmakers, scientists, and theorists.
– Promote and facilitate contact among young artists and established critics and curators.
– Encourage and complement students’ projects, whether they are works of art, diffusion spaces, and research projects.
– Help promote the work of young artists while understanding the art of the past in new and novel ways.
Financial support:
All students accepted into the program area are granted a scholarship of 80 percent of the total cost of attendance. These scholarships are generously funded by our sponsors.
