Call for Participants, October 2025 — June 2026
DEADLINE Sept 9, 2025 5pm

This is an open call for Portland area time-based artists to participate in Outer Voice time-based artists alliance from Oct 2025 through June 2026. 

  • The alliance (approximately seven artists) will meet for an in-person meeting every other Sunday from 1-4pm. Each meeting will center one artist from the cohort who plans and leads the meeting. They will plan a critique, workshop, art experiment, studio visit, trip, short production session or anything they choose that will aid them in their art practice.. 

  • The meeting space (Location TBA in Portland on the East Side) will also be a shared co-working space that each artist will have access to in addition to meeting times.

  • Artists will be paid in installments throughout the season a total of $1000

  • Free snacks and drinks at meetings

  • Three public events will be held throughout the season and will feature the cohort's time-based work. 

  • A book will be made featuring each artist’s work and the events. 


    Who Should Apply? 

All artists are encouraged to apply. Artists who are BIPOC and LGBTQ people, people with illness or disability, elderly people, parents of young children, and people who are marginalized for other reasons are encouraged to apply. The alliance seeks diversity in order to support a broad time-based arts community and to support the individuality of each artist. 

Applicants' contemporary art practices might resonate with the following conditions, yet if you cannot meet all of the conditions, you are still encouraged to apply. Please reach out with any questions or concerns to outervoice1@gmail.com

•You engage in a contemporary art practice in any realm of time-based art. 

Time-Based art is live, recorded, projected or screen-based art that is revealed over time. It can include conceptual, research, or craft-driven, video, film, audio, spoken text,  performance, theater, music, action, movement, social practice, digital arts, animation, and more. The work should be intended as contemporary art. That is, the work should be intended to raise questions about itself, the world, and the self. If your practice is based primarily in object making it might not be the right fit for Outer Voice, yet if you have a practice that includes time-based art, it might be a good fit if you plan to work mostly on and exhibit time-based art with Outer Voice. Please tell us about it in your artist statement. )

•You are regularly making time-based art and art and you are willing to participate in supportive, critical discussions of yours and others' work among the Outer Voice artists. 

•You can attend the meeting/workshops every other Sunday from 1-4pm in person in Northeast Portland, see dates below, location TBA. Plus attend one longer session and three public events, dates to be decided with the group. 

•While collaboration among the alliance is welcomed, it's not the mission of the alliance for the group to work collaboratively. Of course alliance members can and should help one another with elements of our work and in planning public events. 

Who Shouldn’t Apply:

•If you’re currently a student in an academic program we can’t consider your application.
•Because of limited space, artist partners and groups will not be considered.
•Past Outer Voice cohort members aren't eligible to apply, but we miss you! (Keep an eye out for past-cohort events this season! )
•If you won’t be able to attend many meeting dates and events we can’t consider your application.


How to Apply:
Send the following to outervoice1@gmail.com
by 5pm on September 9, 2025 

•An email with the subject FIRST NAME LAST NAME OUTER VOICE APPLICATION with a SINGLE PDF
attached to the email. 

THE PDF SHOULD INCLUDE:
1. Name, email address, and website url and/or social media names (if applicable)

2. Five high resolution images representing or documenting your work .  

3.Three links to online video, audio, writing, performance, or documentation of time-based works. And if necessary the password to view these. 

 4. A list of works that includes title, medium, date, duration, and short description or context for each work. (if necessary)

5. A short paragraph of 100 words or less that includes brief bio and very short description of your medium and work.

6. An artist statement of 500 words or less, include a few sentences on why you’d like to participate in Outer Voice. 

7. A cv/resume of two pages or less that includes education, art and exhibition experience, and related employment. 


 •Please note, if you'd like to include one or more works-in-progress in your application, this is fine, please indicate this in the list of works and be sure the work includes at least an image or even a sketch,  and a clear description of the work’s direction in the list of works. 

 • If any of these items feel out of reach or don’t represent your process well, you are still encouraged to apply with materials that you feel represent your work and practice. Please reach out to outervoice1@gmail.com with questions.

• Also note that the three live events this season will include an "Open Hour" portion, where members of the art community outside of the co-hort can show work. 

•The 24/25 alliance will be announced in September with a start date of Sunday October 19 2025. 

Meeting Dates 

Mandatory Sunday meeting dates will be as follows:
(Note: One of these will be a longer special session, and 3 additional event dates will be chosen with the group's input)
Sunday Meeting Dates 1-4pm
10/19/2205 
11/2/2025
11/16/2025 (tentative special longer session 1pm-8pm)
11/30/2025 
12/14/2025
1/4/2026
1/18/2026
2/1/2026
2/15/2026
3/1/2026
3/15/2026
3/29/2026
4/12/2026
4/26/2026
5/10/2026
5/24/2026
6/7/2026