



The selected curator will participate in a curatorial development program that provides mentorship from experienced arts professionals, access to BULK Space resources, and a public platform to realize an exhibition or project. The program centers experimental, socially engaged, and interdisciplinary practices, with a particular emphasis on amplifying voices historically excluded from mainstream arts institutions.
The selected curator is expected to be highly self-driven, taking initiative in research, coordination, and project development while working in dialogue with BULK Space staff and mentors. Through mentorship, production support, and public presentation, the program supports curators in developing rigorous, community-responsive projects from concept to execution.
Each selected curator will receive a $1,000 honorarium, along with $1,000 in project support to cover artist fees, exhibition production, programming, shipping, and gallery staffing.
The program runs June 1st to August 31, with the resulting exhibition presented at Talking Dolls opening August 6th. Applications open March 1st, offering an opportunity for early-career curators to gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and a public platform to realize a socially engaged, experimental project.
The Emerging Curator Program supports early-career curators working in socially engaged, experimental, and community-rooted practices.
To Detroit Whimsy, With Love is a love letter to the playful and imaginative spirit of Detroiters. Often known for our hustle and grit, Detroiters do not hesitate to make a new way, from our familial migration to Detroit to our unique movement, music, and nature as a people. We are the original whimsy warriors. While the world watches and waits, Detroiters innovate. Through everyday instances of whimsy such as exploring in the park, flying kites on Belle Isle, slow rolling down the Dequindre Cut with speakers blasting, crafting, ballrooming and block partying, styling our hair and attire to the 10s - Detroiters use whimsical actions as radical sustainable resilience. Step into an exhibition where Detroit area creatives collaborate in communal play, encouraging us all to craft our dreams beyond the hustle into a more iridescent, creative, and whimsical defiance.
Pictured: Curator In Residence, Nianna (Oyster Knife Lab, LLC)
