Super G Seeks “DIRECTOR”

Position Announcement: Director, Super G Experiential Residency

Super G Experiential Residency Program
Greensboro, North Carolina

http://supergresidency.wordpress.com/

Description
We are seeking a Director for the Super G Residency Program. The director will be expected to lead, develop and manage the Residency Program. Other responsibilities include, selecting and scheduling residents, situating residents, program talks, managing the WordPress site, and further expanding the program’s public engagement.
This position requires innovative programming that explores the overlap of art, experimental pedagogy, community projects, and social practice.

The Director will be free to re-imagine the Super G program and really shape it to their interests and dreams. Importantly, they will not be supervised or working for anybody in particular. Director will be assisted by two external advisors (Donovan McKnight and Lee Walton) and potentially assisted by 2 interns from UNCG. A Co-Director situation is also possible and encouraged.

This position is a great opportunity for an emerging arts practitioner interested in gaining real experience in the field of contemporary art.

Fundamental Qualifications
● Creative vision
● Open mind
● Comfort working with large and small groups of people
● Flexible schedule
● Ability to work independently without supervision
● Ample energy and enthusiasm
● Embraces failure
● Some photoshop, video, WordPress skills

Application Information
Review of applications begins IMMEDIATELY, 2013. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
The starting date is projected for May.

Compensation
There is currently no monetary compensation in place for the Director. The Director will need to utilize his/her creative skills to obtain funding, which can be used in any way this person sees fit – such as compensating themselves, stipends for residents, material, etc.. (In the past, Lee and Donovan hand delivered pizza’s, provided a 3am wake-up call service, and took patrons out for drinks – usually cold beer.)

Send a short cover letter, CV of related (or unrelated) experience and 3 references (names and contact only) via email.

Contacts
Lee Walton
lee@leewalton.com

Donovan McKnight
mcknight.donovan@gmail.com

Our time has ended…

Thank you to everyone who supported Steven and I in our endeavors at the Super G. Without you, this definitely would not have been possible. We did some things… and here they are -

– A dictionary compendium of words Steven did not know when he was reading Invisible Cities.
Invisible Cities Dictionary Compendium Final

A photographic composite of visitors to the Super G who were willing to pose in a zentai suit.

The Final Week!

It’s our final week at the Super-G! It’s been great to experience this experiential residency.

Please come visit us at Emma Keys, Friday @ 9:00 PM for an evening of art conversation. Here’s a sneak peek at some of what we’ve been up to -

The first few days for Jeffrey and Steven…

Movies were watched.

 

Games were played.

 

Some personalities started to show.

 

Tomorrow, Sunday, is music day.

 

Jeffrey – www.jeffreypubantz.com
Steven – www.stevensewell.net/

Ok Super G Junkies, we need you!

Come visit Steven and I are at the Super G this week. We will be making things. And YOU can help us – Be willing to do one of the following if you come:

1) Bring something you like alot and want to talk about it.
2) Play an instrument, provided by us or you.
3) Wear a zentai suit and wield a real weapon, both provided by me.

Come any day this week between 11:30 and 3:30! Some days we stay later, but only if we feel so inclined… maybe you can help us feel so inclined by stopping by!

 

All the best,

 

Jeffrey

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Summer Residents: Jeffrey Pubantz and Steven Sewell

The Super G Experiential Residency Program is pleased to announce our upcoming summer residents. This June, Jeffrey Pubantz and Steven Sewell will be coming down from Michigan to experience the Super G. What will happen? Nobody knows… not even them!

Jeffrey Pubantz holds an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and teaches digital photography for UNC-Greensboro’s All Arts, Sciences and Technology Camp. He uses photography, video, music and performance in his work, which has been exhibited in several galleries nationally. Jeffrey is also an accomplished board game player and saxophonist.

Steven Sewell is an artist and musician from Chattanooga, Tennessee who is currently living in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His most recent work deals with celebrations of life and memorials of death from both a personal and a large-scale pop culture viewpoint. Outside of art, Steven enjoys organizing things and football. He closely follows the Tennessee Titans and Detroit Lions.

Upcoming Resident: Drew Perry

We are excited to welcome Drew to the Super G.  Dates are still being decided.  Keep in the loop!   Drew Perry’s debut novel, THIS IS JUST EXACTLY LIKE YOU, was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. He holds an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, teaches writing at Elon University, and has had work appear in The Oxford American, New Stories from the South, and many magazines and journals. He lives in Greensboro with his wife, a toddler son, two cats and a dog. A second novel, SEMI-FLIGHTLESS BIRDS, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books. www.drewperry.net