Visiting Artists Grant Accepting Applications Until August 27th!

Calling all artists with existing work! Do you or someone you know have completed artwork and would like a chance to share their unique creative spark at Mosaic Experiment? We want to help you get it here with a Visiting Artists Grant!



The VAG is open to all artists seeking a like minded, radically inclusive community that celebrates diverse voices, even if you haven't attended a ten principles/Burning Man event. We are a community of welcoming, surreal, playful, ridiculous, wondrous, and sublime contributors that celebrate weirdness, encourage participation, and build a magical space for self expression from the ground up.



We are specifically encouraging BIPOC artists, and artists from underserved populations to showcase their passion projects at Mosaic Experiment. As a community, we strive to take care of ourselves so we can take care of each other, and we want to help YOU with transportation expenses for your existing art. Come be part of the Experiment, and welcome home!



If you have a burning desire to share your art with us at Mosaic Experiment 2023, Celestial Chaos (taking place in SE Ohio, Sep 28 - Oct 3), fill out the application below by no later than 11:59pm EST, Sunday, August 27th to be considered for this opportunity to help fund the transport of your artistic vision. For more information regarding this and other art grants, visit the Art Grants & Effigy Page.

APPLY HERE

NOTE: The BAM acknowledges that the delayed info and the short application window for this new grant opportunity may give unfair advantage to those who have the freedom to shift gears and make plans quickly. We intend to do what we can to balance for that factor in 2023, and we promise it will be better next year.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTE: In consideration of the divergent minds among us, if the application process is a barrier to you for any reason, please feel free to submit grant requests by 11:59pm EST, Sunday, August 27th to: artgrants@mosaicexperiment.com.

Please include the following in your email:

• your legal name, preferred or burn name, and pronouns

• email address, phone number, mailing address

• a few words about yourself.

• name of your project with a brief description and history

• a few photos of your project

Art Grants & Effigy

We're back with another Minute in the Mud, and this time VeryKateri is joining us to let you know that Art Grant Applications for Effigy, Temple, and projects over $500 will be opening this Thursday, April 20th!

Those applications will only be open until May 20th, that's one month to apply, so make sure you fill yours out ASAP in order to be considered!

Have an idea for a project but need help bringing your dream to life? Just ask!

Post about your ideas in our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MosaicExperiment, or through our Discord server: https://discord.gg/ZfuEGHQ, where you can harness the collective creative energy of our community to assist in your artistic vision!

In addition to these grants, we'll be giving you more details regarding projects under $500 and more soon, so stay tuned and be sure to look for updates coming shortly at: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/artgrants

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2022 ART GRANT RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED!

Big thanks to all of the artists who took the time to apply for a Mosaic Art Grant this year.

The flood of applications that came in between the original deadline and the extended deadline was quite impressive. We ended up with 15 applications and 11k in requests!

After careful review, assisted by our fabulous art grant selection team, and with the cooperation of several artists who worked with us in adjusting plans to reduce their budgets, we're delighted to announce 10 art grant projects for Mosaic 2022!

~MOSAIC 2022 ART GRANTS~

$360 to Sarita and team Spamarita to build the All Cats are Beautiful Temple 

"All Cats Are Beautiful Temple is an immersive, multisensory, devotional temple in tribute to the purrtheon of cats, pusses and kittens, where we honor the majesty and subversive beauty our furry, feline deities in their eternal struggle against human and canine oppression."

$300 to SpaceCase and team a Web of Caseys to bring you Anansi's Twisted Tales

"Do you like to spin a tale? Want to play a part in the collective creation of intersecting narratives? Come weave your words and pictures into Anansi's web of stories at First Fires."

$60 to Lady Bacchus to create For Your Light

"The talent show is always an amazing display of our communities talents. This year each participant will receive a special on again and off again trophy for their efforts."

$200 to Andi "Fluffy" and team SpielBound Creations w/ Syncytium to bring you Iris Rains: A SpiderMonkey Tribute

"Journey under the large kaleidoscopic parasol with a canopy of translucent colored panels, with small, freely spinning mirrors dangling to reflect the world around; by night, it will be lit by rainbow lights and will bear a flame at the top to be seen from afar."

$250 to Liz and team Cuddlefish/Hive to create Off (With Your Head) And On Again

"Participants symbolically "behead" themselves in a French Revolution-style guillotine whose blade is a glittering, immaterial beaded curtain. Reflect on what oppresses us or holds us back from revolutionary change, and symbolically “dethrone” the “ruler” within."

$150 to Princess for their human decorating project Open Your 3rd Eye

"Come adorn yourself and explore untapped wisdom -what will you discover when you open the third eye portal?"

$330 to Jonah and the Stoop Kids to create Stoop of Threeseus

"The third first stoop! Stoops are a universal meeting place, in his explorations stoop creator Jonah has found stoops to be a communal gathering point and place for strangers and neighbors to meet. Come sit stand or lean on the stoop to experience for yourself!"

$100 to Bitch Titless of team Titless for UniTARDIS Project Improvements

"The UniTARDIS Project is pleased to announce a carriage update that will enable us to easily traverse the timespace coordinates of Mosaic Experiment 2022 (linear time). We will be bringing time travel and mobile dance parties to all participants."

$100 to Daphne and team Teatime, bringing you The Wayward Teahouse

"The Wayward Teahouse is a den of refreshment, relaxation, and whimsical conversation in a beautiful bell tent -- fall down the rabbit hole and come to our tea party!"

$180 to artist Luna Melt for the creation of We Are In Space

"A cosmic tribute to our community's resilience through the last two years' cycles of hope, joy, and grief, changing like the continual dance between the sun and the moon above us - because we are in space, no one knows what's going on, I love you."

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Congrats and gratitude to all our artists and their teams! We can't wait to see your art!

Art Grants Have Been Extended!

Did you have a project in mind but ran out of time to get your submission in?

If you missed our announcements through social media, you’ve still got a chance to get your application in!

At Grant Applications have been extended to 11:59PM on Friday, July 29th Don’t delay, get yours in today and with a little help from a grant, you can bring your art project to life at this year’s Mosaic Experiment: Off and On Again!

Visit https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/artgrants to check out the details and fill your application out here: https://form.jotform.com/90493499626169

Mosaic Experiment 2022 Art Grants Applications Open Today!

Attention artists, creators, tinkerers, experimenters, visionaries, and everyone in between!

Our Art Grant Applications are now open and we welcome your submissions! Just head on over to our Art Grants & Effigy page to check out all the details before filling out the official Mosaic Art Grant Application.

Submissions will be open from now until 11:59PM EST on July 18th, 2022 so get your creative juices flowing and start filling out your application today! We can’t wait to see what you bring to this year’s event for Mosaic Experiment 2022: Off and On Again!

Additionally, and just in time for the opening of submissions, we’re overjoyed to announce the addition of Sean and Kateri to the MOrg as our new Art Grant Leads! Both have a longstanding history with the Burn Community, including Mosaic and several other regional events. In fact, if you’re attending Reclaimation this weekend, you’ll be able to catch them there, as that event would not be possible without their amazing help!

Ticket Sale Dates, Open Positions, and Out of the Mud - Episode Three: Getting Involved!

Out of the Mud is back in April with some very important updates!

Ticketing dates and pricing for Mosaic Experiment 2022: Off and On Again are as follows:

Tier 1: May 16th, 2022 - $110

Tier 2: July 1st, 2022 (or until first 300 are sold) - $125

Needs-Based Tickets: Beginning May 16th, 2022. 15 Mosaic Sponsored tickets will be available for $45 with a Community Sponsored Gift Ticket Program to help fulfill any additional funding needs. More details to come.

Art Grant Applications will be open from May 13th - July 18th, 2022 so keep your eyes open and your creative juices flowing to bring your art to Mosaic this year!

Now, as April is National Volunteer month, our Volunteer Coordinator, Cheese Fairy, joins us this episode to co-host as we talk about some of our favorite volunteer stories and highlight the roles of various open leadership roles in the MOrg that we need your Participation in order to fill and make this year's event possible.

Full descriptions for all of our open positions can be found here:

Art Grant Lead: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/art-grant-lead

DPW Co-Lead: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/dpw-lead

Greeters Co-Lead: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/greeters-lead

Placement Lead: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/placement-lead

Promo Co-Lead: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/promo-lead

Ranger Co-Lead: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/ranger-lead

Scribe: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/scribe

Ticketing Co-Lead: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/ticketing-lead

Web Co-Lead: https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/web-lead

If you're interested in volunteering to be a lead on our team fill out an application today! https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/lead-application-form

“Letting Go" Wins Effigy Award for 2021

Who won our effigy award this year? Our art committee has been working hard, narrowing it down and we can now name our winner. That creative burner named Corvus will build our 2021 effigy titled “Letting Go".

Below, Mosaic Experiment's own Everyman sits down with Corvus to discuss his history with burning, his plans for 2021 and his project. It's pretty spectacular.

Also, they tip a hat to our discord experiment (you know, the 2020 virtual burn we never turned off) which you can find via discord.gg/ZfuEGHQ and please say hello to our house bot "Moe Zaic" while you are there.

What about awarding our temple design you may ask? We can't let all our big announcements out at once, right? Check back next week for a new interview featuring that design winner!

Art Grant Application Goes Live

It's time to channel your inner creativity, dream big and create even bigger (or smaller if that's your goal)!

We're putting out the call to those of you who would like to create art for our upcoming "Through The Looking Glass" Mosaic Experiment. Need a small bit of help getting there? Read on.

Your art can take any form you can dream so long as it can be shared digitally in some manner, October 1st - 4th, 2020. We invite you to get as creative and unexpected as you can while still considering our theme.

Please share your plans through the following form and we might just be able to help you make it real.

MAKE YOUR DREAMS KNOWN HERE!

Through The Looking Glass Virtual Art Fund Drive

Let's talk ART!

Our story is simple. We're working to raise funding to support artists who wish to contribute to our "Through The Looking Glass" virtual gathering taking place October 1st to 4th, 2020.

To help facilitate this effort, we've opened up a small GoFundMe campaign (targeting around $600) to raise money which we will quickly turn right back around to our creative community.

Please consider chipping in a few dollars. Money raised here will go directly to artists to help them create magical things for everyone to enjoy this October and tomorrow morning we will share a link which all you wonderfully creative burners can use to apply for these art grants.

VISIT OUR GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN