Project for Empty Space has announced a new program, the Feminist FUTURES Fellowship.
As PES embarks on its fourteenth year, our’ co-directors look back on its foundations as a curator-led organization. From its fledgling days to its work in 2024, the organization has been grounded in lateral and dynamic, collaborative relationships between artists and curators. As the organization embarks on a new chapter and new program (PES FUTURES), we aim to reiterate that important collaborative practice, particularly through the lens of dynamic and equitable feminist practice. This fellowship spans 1 year and includes guidance, an honorarium, and support towards a culminating exhibition in New York City.
The inaugural fellowship was awarded to Alyssa Alexander, an independent curator and arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. With a background in journalism and critical writing, she is currently building a curatorial practice and pursuing more in-depth cultural and art-historical research that centers on artists of African descent. She is dedicated to working with emerging artists and institutions to cultivate a more accessible and equitable creative economy.
About The Feminist FUTURES Fellowship
This comprehensive fellowship program is designed to amplify the voices of emerging curators dedicated to feminist perspectives in the contemporary art landscape but also to provide a crucial safe space for creative practitioners of all gender identities who are interested in Intersectional Feminist thought. It serves as a platform for productive and critical intersectional dialogue, fostering catharsis, camaraderie, and education within the artistic community.
While the Feminist FUTURES Fellowship, which was previously known as the Feminist Incubator, remains artist-centric, it embraces the idea of multicentricity and room for new thought and experimentation within the intersectional framework. Because intersectional feminism is an ever-evolving practice, so should the architecture of a feminist-oriented program. In this recalibrated context, the FI will create space for new curatorial visions and new artistic practices.
*Project for Empty Space considers ‘feminism’ to be an ever-evolving framework. At this moment, we consider the works of a variety of feminist communities across the Global South and/or Intersectional practices. Feminism is not bound by gender; rather, it is a practice of movement toward equity across communities and identities.