The Art Project is Hiring

Flint Public Art Project is currently seeking candidates for two part-time staff positions to help facilitate its programming for the coming year. This is an opportunity to collaborate on a wide-ranging project of international scope, be connected to some of the most innovative contemporary artists, designers, architects, planners, photographers, and make a significant contribution to the field. These openings are not limited to local residents but will require spending at least half of the time and often entire periods in Flint to facilitate projects and programs. The program administrator will be paid $1000 per month. The project manager will be paid $650 per month. Applicants should send a CV and letter of interest by July 31 to info@flintpublicartproject.com.


Program Administrator

Ideal candidate will demonstrate: 

- administrative experience

- good organizational capacity

- excellent clarity and facility with verbal and written expression

- firm understanding of mission of project

- interest in and familiarity with contemporary installation, public art, light- and projection, performance, and social practice work

- capacity to reach out to underserved communities and members of underrepresented groups


Responsibilities include:

- reporting to and working as assistant to the producer and creative director

- facilitating programming, scheduling, and sharing technical information with invited artists about sites, local participants, logistics, travel.

- coordinating incoming artists and facilitating collaboration with local participants and partners

- tailoring mission statements to potential funding opportunities and partners, including grants, corporate and local sponsors, beer sponsors, national and international institutions

- corresponding with new artists, reaching out to local, regional, and international participants, including performance artists, musicians, light and projection artists, and installation artists

- participating as artist and cultural producer, designer, and curator

Candidate should have a minimum of a B.A. or B.F.A. in an arts, humanities, social science, management, or relevant field. 

Project Manager

Ideal candidate will demonstrate:

- good interpersonal skills

- excellent organizational capacity

- clarity and facility with verbal and written expression

- firm understanding of mission of project

- interest in and familiarity with contemporary installation, public art, light- and projection, performance, and social practice work

- capacity to reach out to underserved communities and members of underrepresented groups


Responsibilities include:

- reporting to program administrator and director

- coordinating projects by visiting artists

- connecting visiting artists with relevant community organizations or local artists

- facilitating collaborations between artists and groups

- helping source and access materials for projects

- assisting in realizing artists ideas

- providing logistical support for projects

- sharing relevant information with program administrator and director

Candidate should have a minimum of a B.A. or B.F.A. in an arts, humanities, social science, or relevant field.

Dwelling on Waste: Flint

On July 15,  2012, architects Matthieu Bain and Andrew Perkins begin an artist residency sponsored by the Art Project. For the next six months, Bain and Perkins, recent graduates of the State University of New York - Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, will begin cleaning and maintaining the former Spencer's Mortuary building while living in a neighboring house donated for use of the project. 

The artists are being encouraged by the Art Project to pursue an artistic process responsive to the specific nature of the house and its environment, planning the adaptation of the building for a public use to be determined by them in cooperation with the project, the surrounding community, and local arts groups and institutions. 

Over the coming months, the Art Project will use the building grounds for small public events, meetings, performances--and once it meets building codes--office space for local artists and visitors to our programs. The Spencer's Art House project is modeled after Bain and Perkins' master's thesis, Dwelling on Waste, which transformed a distressed home in Buffalo into a warm off-the-grid shelter for the artists and friends, catalyzing new relationships between neighbors, and demonstrating an affordable and sustainable reuse of abandoned properties in the post-industrial city. 

Cannibalizing the material and spatial remains of the post-industrial city creates a shifting domestic condition guided by necessity. This survivalist architecture must address utilities (water, heat), security, varying climatic conditions, food storage, and mental comfort, always adapting itself according to what it has on hand. This method of design and the restriction of material palette removes the superficial from the work. It addresses economy and sustainability through adaptive reuse of material and space. It confuses social order through a new mode of living, looking to squatting and alternative lifestyles as inspiration. It challenges political bodies by acting as a form of protest to the current housing policies: demolition as a remedy to urban decay.

Ground Breaking Art Party

On Friday, July 13 from 7 pm to midnight, the Public Art Project returns downtown to light up the streets with video projections, glowing dancers in white Tyvek suits, a killer techno DJ, and sculptural lounge seating by New York-based Serbian-Jewish architect Srdjan Jovanovic-Weiss.



The first event in a year of art actions throughout the city, including the Congress for Urban Transformation (CUT) in October and the Free City Festival in May, Ground Breaking Art Party transforms First Street between Saginaw and Harrison into a place of spectacle, beauty, and play.

As dusk approaches, join us in the shadow of the famed Genesee Towers for an open-air Art Party: because this is contemporary art in the new city, and the days of the top-down Charity City are at an end.

Produced by Flint Public Art Project in affiliation with Flint Institute of Arts. Featuring Eric Hinds, DJ Litz, and Flint Community Dance Collaboration.