Please join us this MONDAY November 4th, to learn all about WaveMaker Grants, including the application process for up to $6,000 in funding for non-commercial, non-institutional visual arts projects at all stages that are accessible to the public via process, presentation, production, or publication.

WaveMaker Grants at Locust Projects provides artists with grants of up to $6,000 to support non-commercial, non-institutional projects that are accessible to the public via process, presentation, production, or publication. WaveMaker Grants is made possible by lead support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is part of the Warhol Foundation's Regional Regranting Program.

Join us to learn all about the application process, ask questions, and meet other artists over light refreshments. Submissions open November 15

Join Locust Projects and Oolite Arts for a conversation with Ruba Katrib, curator at MoMA PS1, former curator at New York’s SculptureCenter, and associate curator at Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami.

At MoMA PS1 she has curated exhibitions such as the retrospective of Simone Fattal in 2019, and the solo shows of Edgar Heap of Birds (2019), Karrabing Collective (2019), Fernando Palma Rodríguez, and Julia Phillips (2018). From 2012 - 2018 she was Curator at SculptureCenter in New York where she curated over twenty solo and group exhibitions including 74 million million million tons (2018) (co-curated with artist Lawrence Abu-Hamdan), The Eccentrics (2015), Puddle, pothole, portal (2014) (co-curated with artist Camille Henrot), Better Homes (2013), and A Disagreeable Object (2012); and solo shows of the work of Carissa Rodriguez (2018), Kelly Akashi, Sam Anderson, Teresa Burga, Nicola L., Charlotte Prodger (all 2017), Rochelle Goldberg, Aki Sasamoto, Cosima von Bonin (all 2016), Anthea Hamilton, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Magali Reus, Gabriel Sierra, Michael E. Smith, Erika Verzutti (all 2015), David Douard, and Jumana Manna (both 2014). Previously, Katrib was the Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami from 2007 – 2012 where she organized several group and solo exhibitions. Katrib was also co-founder of the residency and exhibition space Threewalls in Chicago, and has also held positions at the Renaissance Society and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, where she currently serves on the Graduate Committee. She was a research advisor for the 2018 Carnegie Internationaland a member of the Advisory Board for Recess, a non-profit artist residency and exhibition space in New York. Katrib was one of the curators of SITE Santa Fe’s 2018 biennial, Casa Tomada, along with José Luis Blondet and Candice Hopkins. 

Parking is available at the cultural center, but limited. We encourage you to use a ride share service.

Photo credit: Josep Fonti 

WaveMaker Grants at Locust Projects provides artists with grants of up to $6,000 to support non-commercial, non-institutional projects that are accessible to the public via process, presentation, production, or publication. WaveMaker Grants is made possible by lead support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is part of the Warhol Foundation's Regional Regranting Program.

Join us in the Lab Theater at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center to learn all about the application process, ask questions, and meet other artists over light refreshments. Submissions open November 15.