Newton Community Pride Seeking Submissions For FenceART Program

NEWTON, MA — Newton Community Pride has announced a "Call for Art" for the 2022 FenceART Program, a year-round public project dedicated to bringing vibrant, varied, and engaging art to neighborhoods throughout the city.

Sponsored by NCP, the FenceART Program jury chooses 20 works by Newton artists to display, embracing a broad range of styles and media that are printed on high quality vinyl banners. The banners rotate in small groups to five fence location in Newton for approximately 10 weeks at a time.

"I'm excited to curate NCP’s FenceART program in Newton once again," said Ellen Fisher, Curator of FenceART in a statement. "It has a kind of ‘permanently temporary’ quality that’s really unique. It’s a string of little outdoor galleries scattered across the city, where the artwork changes every few weeks. There’s always something worthwhile to see at each of these 5 fences, every day, all year long."

All artists who reside, work, volunteer, worship, or participate in art classes in the City of Newton are invited to submit work for this project. Artists may submit three jpegs of work in any media, including photography, painting, quilting, collage, and photos of 3D work. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2021. Details about submitting artwork are available here.

“NCP is committed to broadening our mission to support temporary and permanent
public art," said Gloria Gavris, Board Chair of Newton Community Pride, in a statement. "Our FenceART program is another opportunity to find and showcase high quality, varied works from Newton artists. We believe it is a great asset to 'come upon' quality artwork in our daily lives and we are delighted to sponsor this program, now in its 7th year.”

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