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| ProArts | |
|---|---|
| Name | ProArts |
| Type | Nonprofit arts organization |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | International Arts Campus |
| Key people | Artistic Director; Executive Director |
| Focus | Visual arts; Performing arts; Media arts; Design |
ProArts ProArts is an international organization dedicated to the promotion, education, and production of the visual and performing arts. It operates multidisciplinary programs that connect artists, institutions, and audiences across regions including North America, Europe, and Asia. ProArts partners with galleries, conservatories, festivals, museums, and universities to present exhibitions, performances, residencies, and curriculum innovations.
ProArts maintains collaborations with institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Centre Pompidou, and engages with festivals like Venice Biennale, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Documenta. Its programming spans studio practice, curatorial studies, choreography, sound art, film production, and digital media, connecting to conservatories and schools such as the Juilliard School, Royal College of Art, Yale School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Beaux-Arts de Paris. ProArts cultivates relations with cultural foundations and philanthropic organizations including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Getty Foundation, and Kunststiftung NRW.
Founded in 1983 amid the rise of interdisciplinary art networks, ProArts drew early influence from movements and institutions such as Fluxus, Guggenheim Foundation, European Capital of Culture, Artists Space, and MOMA PS1. In the 1990s it expanded internationally, initiating partnerships with the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museo Reina Sofía, Stedelijk Museum, Kunsthalle Basel, and academic partners including University of the Arts London and Columbia University. During the 2000s ProArts launched residency networks modeled on programs at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, and Cité internationale des arts, and collaborated with film and new media platforms linked to MoMA Film, Locarno Film Festival, and Berlinale. Recent decades saw strategic alliances with technology and design entities like MIT Media Lab, TED Conferences, Google Arts & Culture, Apple creative initiatives, and cultural policy forums such as UNESCO creative cities.
ProArts runs artist residency programs influenced by models at Yaddo, Peggy Guggenheim Collection residencies, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. It offers public exhibitions, commissioned performances, and site-specific projects with partners including Serpentine Galleries, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, La Scala, and Royal Opera House. Education and professional development initiatives connect to conservatory syllabi at Curtis Institute of Music, Bard College, Pratt Institute, California Institute of the Arts, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while its publications and critical forums convene editors and critics from Artforum, Frieze, The New York Times Arts section, The Guardian arts, and The New Yorker. Media initiatives include collaborations with Netflix, HBO, BBC Arts, NHK, and independent distributors operating at Sundance Institute labs.
ProArts operates multiple sites and shared campuses modeled after complexes like Lincoln Center, Southbank Centre, Lincoln Park Conservatory, and Tate Modern Turbine Hall adaptations. Its main hubs have exhibition spaces similar to those at the Whitney Museum, black box theaters modeled on The Public Theater, film labs inspired by Filmoteca Española, and maker spaces influenced by Fab Lab networks and Werkraum Bregenzerwald workshops. Satellite residencies are situated in city districts comparable to SoHo, Manhattan, Shoreditch, Le Marais, Prenzlauer Berg, and cultural quarters akin to Montmartre or Trastevere.
Alumni and faculty connected with ProArts include artists, composers, filmmakers, choreographers, and curators who have associations with institutions and prizes such as Pritzker Architecture Prize, Turner Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Golden Lion, Academy Awards, BAFTA, Grammy Awards, and Venice Film Festival laureates. Names include practitioners whose careers intersect with Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Olafur Eliasson, Kara Walker, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Greta Gerwig, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, Sofia Coppola, John Adams (composer), Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, Martha Graham, Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Bjork, Björk, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hans Zimmer, Elena Poniatowska, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Zadie Smith, Taika Waititi, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Craven.
ProArts maintains institutional partnerships with museums, festivals, and universities, collaborating with entities like Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery (London), Victoria and Albert Museum, Israel Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Asia Society, Japan Foundation, Goethe-Institut, Institut français, British Council, and regional cultural agencies involved in events such as Art Basel, Frieze Art Fair, The Armory Show, TEFAF, and Sotheby's auctions. It works with commissioning bodies including Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, Asia Culture Center, Australia Council for the Arts, and municipal councils in cities like New York City, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore.
Programs and projects have received recognition from major awarding bodies and festivals including MacArthur Fellows Program, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, European Cultural Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, Praemium Imperiale, Mies van der Rohe Award, Golden Bear, Palme d'Or, and honors presented at venues such as Royal Academy of Arts and national academies. ProArts initiatives have been cited in lists and retrospectives curated by editors and juries from Tate Modern retrospectives, MoMA acquisition committees, and international biennales.
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