#IntheCity Fellowship & Exhibition with Harvard's Commonwealth Project

The Commonwealth Project at Harvard University is accepting applications from St. Louis-based visual artists interested in building a long-term collaborative arts initiative between undergraduate students and faculty at Harvard University.

St. Louis fellows will be tasked with capturing different parts of the city in response to the question “What is St. Louis to you?” From November 2019–May 2020, the selected artists will work closely with Tef Poe, artist, activist and former Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Fellow; Dr. Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and African and African American Studies and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History; De Nichols, STL artist, activist, and Harvard Loeb fellow; and a cohort of 4–6 undergraduate students.

The fellowship will culminate in a partnered exhibition in St. Louis and Cambridge, MA. The first exhibition will be hosted by the Griot Museum of Black History in North St. Louis. The second will open at Harvard University’s Center for Government and International Studies South Concourse Gallery in late April 2020. Artist fellows will be provided a $1,000 stipend for their participation along with coverage of all travel and lodging expenses.

About the Commonwealth Project

An initiative founded by Tef Poe and Walter Johnson, the Commonwealth Project at Harvard University models a new way for universities to engage with social problems through service and collaboration. Professors, students, cultural producers, activists, attorneys and local politicians work together on community-led justice initiatives and historical research in St. Louis and its surrounding regions. An advisory board comprised of Harvard faculty and St. Louis partners convenes the project.