City Without Walls
6 Crawford Street
Newark, NJ
07102
973.622.1188
http://cwow.org/

Rating –Okay
Level –Emerging
Type – Contemporary
Subcategory: Non-Profit

Their Published Description:
City Without Walls (cWOW) is an urban gallery of emerging art that advances the careers of artists while building the audience for contemporary art.City Without Walls is New Jersey's oldest not-for-profit alternative art space, in continuous operation since 1975. Its two-fold mission offers career development opportunities to new and emerging artists, while providing the public a chance to understand and enjoy challenging contemporary art. We operate a professional fine art gallery that showcases the work of over 100 emerging artists per year in 10 to 14 on-site, off-site, and traveling exhibitions.

Editors  Comments:
If you pay the 35$ membership here you will be put into their slide registry and then all the curators who propose to have a show here will have to view the registry to even think about applying here. When I was living in Philly I drove up there to look at the registry so that I could propose to curate a show there. Unlike most curations they encourage artists to put their own work into the show that they are curating. That sets them apart, and gets them to have more artist curations than they other wise would. Well the space is nice, smaller than I thought it would be but it has high walls and lots of light. Everyone on staff was exceptionally helpful. The registry itself was what you would expect for a registry that was not curated. There was a lot of crap too wade through with a few good moments. After proposing a show, I never heard back from them.  Not even a sorry you suck, try later letter. I lived at the address I applied from well after a year and my mail was forwarded for another 6 months, so in that time I have no idea what happened to my proposal. Not cool. Everything else was cool though. I have met a few artist here and there in NY who have been curated in to shows there, and they have had good experiences and got into the show without the 35$ fee, as once a curator is accepted they don’t have to pull any artist from the registry. So I am also not cool with that 35$ fee. It seems non-sensible and just a way to get money. Okay so I have mixed feelings about this one, but not negative enough to give them a bad rating. Perhaps we can hear from you.

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