SukkahPDX: A Juried Design/Build Competition at Oregon Jewish Museum

Entry Deadline: Friday 7.19.13, by 5:00pm PST
Entry Fee: $20.00
Notification of Jury Decision: 8.1.13
Installation Dates: 9.15.13 - 9.17.13
Event Dates: 9.18.13-9.25.13

The sukkah is a temporary dwelling, traditionally erected each fall in observance of the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot. Jewish texts and tradition offer a rich and complex set of parameters for sukkah design and construction. Explicitly fragile, permeable, and temporary, these shelters pose ancient questions of protection and enclosure, and of transience, displacement and domestic space that remain highly relevant issues in 21st century art, craft and design.

Oregon Jewish Museum invites designers, artists and makers of all backgrounds to propose contemporary responses to the traditional challenges of sukkah design.

Awardees of this juried competition will receive a supply budget of $400 to create and install a sukkah on the grounds of the Oregon Jewish Museum (OJM), in Portland, Oregon. A collection of up to nine unique, liveable structures will remain on display at OJM throughout Sukkot 2013. The holiday begins at sundown on September 15, 2013 and ends at sundown on September 25th. The sukkahs will serve as the focal point of a weeklong series of events that seek to create contemporary context and connection to the themes of this ancient holiday.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
500 word Statement of Intent, CV, and up to 10 jpeg images + Image Index.
Artists, designers and makers of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Groups working collaboratively should submit a single proposal as a team.

Download Complete submission requirements and event details at OJM website: http://www.ojm.org/SukkahPDX.html

Questions and inquiries may be directed to:
Coren Rau, SukkahPDX Curator and Project Manager at: [email protected]