2023 black ball projects micro-granT: SCULPTURE

2023 micro-grant RECIPIENT:
Paul Narkiewicz

Viewing Room
Purchase Exhibition Catalog
Interview with the Artist (coming soon)
Application Images

We are thrilled to announce that Paul Narkiewicz is the recipient of the 2023 Black Ball Projects micro-grant.

Paul Narkiewicz was born in 1937 in Easton, PA, and studied painting at the Philadelphia College of Art in the early 1960's. After moving to New York City in 1966, he worked in painting, sculpture, and printmaking, and exhibited his work throughout the 1980’s. In 2010, he began to prolifically make intimately scaled ceramic sculptures, and has begun exhibiting work again, with the new works shown alongside his archival paintings and prints.

Paul maintains that he is a sculptor rather than a ceramicist, and has always had an interdisciplinary practice in which one body of work informs the other. Originally trained as a printmaker, Paul demonstrates a lithographer and etcher’s sensitivity to each of these elements. Each figure informs the next, and en masse they form a crowd that only emphasizes each piece's distinct character.

You can view a sample of his work now on our website, and stay tuned for the launch of his online viewing room in February, and an interview with the artist in March.

our 2023 micro-grant finalists

the 2023 micro-grant nominators

about the micro-grant

In 2021, thanks to the many generous donations from our supporters, we launched our micro-grant program. This is our third year running our Micro-Grant program to support under-exposed artists. The micro-grant recipient is awarded a $2000 cash grant, a viewing room on our website, and an artist's talk. All additional finalists receive a $250 stipend for the labor involved in the application process.

The genre this year is sculpture. After meeting initial eligibility requirements of having a mature practice, being underexposed, and having financial need, artists are then judged upon the strength of their submitted works. Currently the program is by nomination only. The micro-grant program is funded entirely by your generous donations to Black Ball Projects.

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