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We've extended the deadline!

Did you want to apply but didn't quite make it in time? Here's your second chance!  Apply by Wednesday, March 15, at 11:59pm. Scroll down for more information. 

We love art and the people who make it.

In fact, that's the first of our three reasons for creating Uproar:


  1. To celebrate artists. We want to celebrate, support, and welcome participating artists, making you feel like rockstars. 
  2. To engage art lovers of all types. We believe ALL people should be able to participate in the arts. Uproar will provide a completely free and accessible arts experience for visitors of all abilities.
  3. To support our community through the arts. Uproar will turn our community into a month-long, interactive arts experience, generating tourism and visitor spending that will support our local economy.

What's in it for you?

  • The opportunity to win $27,500 in prize money.
  • A $500 honorarium for each selected applicant (artist or team).
  • Four nights complimentary lodging for artists living further than 60 miles from Chapel Hill, NC, at one of our partner hotels (two nights for install/opening, two nights for closing/de-install)
  • A mileage stipend for up to 200 miles based on artist’s location (based on the IRS standard mileage rate for business travel in July, 2023).
  • The opportunity to sell your work featured at Uproar.  This is encouraged but not required. Sales, including tax payments, will be handled by the Orange County Arts Alliance. The Arts Alliance will retain a 20% commission on any work sold during the festival.

Prizes

1st Place Jury Selection: $10,000

2nd Place Jury Selection: $5,000

3rd Place Jury Selection: $2,500

People’s Choice Winner: $10,000

Eligibility

Artists must be at least 18 years old and a resident of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia.

Jurors

Larry Wheeler

Larry Wheeler was the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art from 1994 until he retired in 2018. As director, Wheeler helped bring national recognition to the museum through his efforts to grow the museum’s collection and offer the people of North Carolina more, in his words, than “mute art” on the wall. Wheeler’s legacy includes the acquiring of 29 Auguste Rodin sculptures and the construction of the museum’s West Building, sculpture garden and reflecting pools. Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s governor, states, “North Carolinians of all walks of life have access to one of the most renowned art museums in the country thanks to Larry Wheeler’s visionary leadership.” 

Stacey L. Kirby

Stacey Kirby is a queer, white-bodied, self-appointed civil servant from North Carolina who creates socially-engaged interactive performance art. Her work has been featured at Greensboro Project Space, 21c Museum Hotel, Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill, Gibbes Museum of Art, Appalachian State University, ArtPrize, Meredith College, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the Nasher Museum of Art and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design. Kirby is a recipient of the ArtPrize 8 Juried Grand Prize, a NC Arts Council Artist Fellowship for Visual Artists and nominated for the United States Artist Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Award and a finalist for the 1858 Prize. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), Barton College (NC), the Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL) the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, SC) as well as a visiting artist at UNC Wilmington. Her work is represented in the Ackland Art Museum at the UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University Rare Book Collection and other private collections. Kirby has a dual degree from the UNC-Chapel Hill in Studio Art and Journalism and Mass Communications. 

Antoine Williams

Antoine Williams is an interdisciplinary artist who is heavily influenced by speculative fiction, critical Black studies and his working-class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina. Antoine received his BFA from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and his MFA from UNC Chapel Hill. He is a recipient of the 2017 Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors, 2018 Harpo Foundation Grant Award, and the 2022 National Academy of Art Abbey Mural Prize. His work is in the permanent collection of the Nasher Museum of Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art; exhibits include Smack Mellon Brooklyn, Columbia Museum of Art, 21c Museum, Elsewhere Museum, Prizm Art Fair, The McColl Center of Art and Innovation, and the California Museum of Photography. His residencies include The Center for Afrofuturist Studies, The Hambidge Center, and the Joan Mitchel Residency in New Orleans. Williams was also a part of the 2021 Drawing Center viewing program and is an assistant professor of Drawing in the Expanded Field at the University of Florida. 

F.A.Q.'s

Q: I have an idea or concept that isn't a completed work of art.  Can I submit it?

A: Yes. You would submit a sketch of the concept, plus examples of either individual components (such as pieces that would make up an installation), or similar works.

Q: Can I submit a mural?

A: All works must be temporary in nature. So a mural on a temporary surface that can be installed on a large, flat wall, would be allowed. A new, permanent mural on a local building would not.

Q: Can I submit a painting or small work?

A: Yes, but we encourage you to think about the setting and purpose of Uproar. All works are outdoors, where smaller works are more likely to blend in, and we aim for Uproar to feature bold, high-impact works of art. Re-think a small work or painting and how you can present it in a large format. That being said, we also recognize high-impact work can come in all sizes, so we encourage you to submit what feels right to you.

Apply

Click the button below to view the full application. 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2023 AT 11:59PM

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