FIGMENT Kickstarter is up!
FIGMENT’s Kickstarter “curated page” is up! Check it out! http://kickstarter.com/figment. This is where we’ll list all FIGMENT-related projects looking for funding on Kickstarter! To list your FIGMENT project, email us at info@figmentproject.org.
May 1: deadline for FIGMENT NYC Weekend projects
FIGMENT invites all you creative thinkers and doers out there to submit their project for our NYC Weekend event on June 9-10. Deadline for submission is 23:59pm (EST) on May 1—that’s TONIGHT! We welcome projects in any conceivable medium. You can bring a game, an experiment, a request, a challenge, a guided meditation, a performance [...]
Pavilion competition registration deadline extended to April 15
Studies have shown that deadlines are not good for your health. They keep you up at night. They make you bite your nails, snap at innocent bystanders and will have you rack your sleep-deprived brain for that divine flicker of inspiration that somehow always seems to spark around 4AM. To help you hold on to [...]
Submissions closed for NYC Minigolf Course and Sculpture Garden
Registration and submission for the 2012 FIGMENT Minigolf Course and Sculpture Garden is now closed. Thank you to all the wonderful creative builders who submitted their proposals! We will notify artists by April 1, 2012 if their design has been selected to be part of FIGMENT’s 2012 Minigolf Course “Arcade” or our interactive Sculpture Garden [...]
Summer-long Projects Deadline Extended to March 15
A wise man once said, “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Urgency, when applied to creativity, can lead to greatness. So all you creative builders out there, stop dreaming about it, and submit your art projects for our 2012 Summer-long Sculpture Garden and Minigolf Course on Governors Island! We have extended our deadline [...]
GROUNDBREAKING: The Factory tickets now available
“I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘FIGMENT.’ ” — Andy Warhol, 1985 Buy tickets here. … FIGMENT owes more than just its name to Andy Warhol, whose legendary excursions into experience-based and participatory art paved the way for [...]
2012 Calls for Participation NYC, BOSTON, JXN and DETROIT now open
Submissions are now open for FIGMENT 2012 events in Jackson, MS (April 28-29), Boston (June 2-3), NYC (June 9-10) and Detroit (July 21-22), and the summer-long exhibitions in NYC! Project submissions are welcome in every medium imaginable — from sculpture and installations to performance, workshops, games, electronic art, music, dance, etc. To submit a project [...]
FIGMENT voted Best Art Festival by Village Voice
We’ve secretly known for a while that FIGMENT is a uniquely wonderful event, but we are nonetheless very excited to see the media is catching on, too: The Village Voice has voted FIGMENT NYC the Best Art Festival of 2011! Our 2011 NYC Weekend event is “one of the most exciting arts weekends within ferry [...]
Join us for FIGMENT: Demolition Weekend
As much as we hate to admit it, summer is slowly coming to an end. That means we are approaching that time to de-install all FIGMENT @Liggett Terrace projects: our Sculpture Garden, Minigolf Course and Burble Bup Pavilion. Everything must go! De-installation, deconstruction, demolition… Sounds like fun? Fun you shall have! Come out to Governors [...]
Help us maintain our FIGMENT @ Liggett Terrace projects this summer
As the city is slowly roasting in the hot summer sun, FIGMENT’s season-long projects on Governors Island offer shade, solace and FREE summer fun to visitors of Liggett Terrace. We expect about 200,000 people to come out and contemplate, interact with, dance around, play with, talk about, and generally enjoy the FIGMENT 2011 Sculpture Garden, [...]
Bring your (non submitted) art to FIGMENT NYC 2011
Yes, submissions for the FIGMENT NYC 2011 weekend are closed. But we would still love to have you and your art project on Governors Island for the event! Even though submissions are closed, we want to encourage everyone to bring their art with them to FIGMENT — whatever it is, and in whatever media. As [...]
Registration for FIGMENT 2011 NYC now closed
Registration for the FIGMENT 2011 NYC Weekend is officially closed. You may have missed the deadline for the NYC event on Governors Island, but don’t let that stop you from entering a project for this year’s FIGMENT on that other island, Belle Isle in Detroit, on August 6! Calls for Participation for FIGMENT Detroit are [...]
Registration for Minigolf Course now closed
Registration for the 2011 Minigolf Course “Bugs and Features” is officially closed. All registered artists still have time to submit their projects until March 1, 2011. You may have missed the deadline for the Season Long exhibitions Governors Island, but don’t let that stop you from entering a project for this year’s FIGMENT Weekend! Calls [...]
2011 Calls for Participation NYC, BOSTON and JXN now open
Submissions are now open for FIGMENT 2011 events in Jackson, MS (May 14-15), Boston (June 4-5) and NYC (June 10-12)! Project submissions are welcome in every medium imaginable — from sculpture and installations to performance, workshops, games, electronic art, music, dance, etc. To submit a project for FIGMENT JXN, click here. Submission deadline for JXN [...]
Registration for Sculpture Garden and City of Dreams Pavilion NOW CLOSED
Registration for the 2011 City of Dreams Pavilion and Sculpture Garden is officially closed. All registered artists still have time to submit their projects until February 1. You may have missed the deadline for the Sculpture Garden, but don’t let that stop you from entering a project for this year’s Minigolf course! Calls for proposals [...]
Registration deadlines for Sculpture Garden and City of Dreams Pavilion extended
We have extended the registration deadlines for our 2011 Sculpture garden and City of Dreams Pavilion to January 22, 2011! So all you artists out there who haven’t gotten round to registering and submitting your projects, now’s the time! Read more about the Pavilion competition, or register right away. Read more about the 2011 Sculpture [...]
Call for Proposals open for FIGMENT NYC 2011!
Submissions are now open for the season long projects of FIGMENT 2011 on Governors Island, NYC! The FIGMENT Sculpture Garden, the FIGMENT Minigolf Course and the City of dreams 2011 Pavilion will be free and open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays while the island is open from June 4 to October 9, [...]