The Geneva Arts Loft Project is meant to enable serious artists to have an inspiring, practical, affordable living/working studio located on the second and third floors of downtown, Geneva, New York. The spaces will be redesigned from the walls in, with the artist in mind. The studios will feature open space, good light and amenities, like slop sinks, designed specifically for the artist.

Geneva, NY, which is home to the spectacular beauty of the Finger Lakes, has been know to inspire numerous artists. One of the most well known is modernist Arthur Dove who lived and worked in downtown Geneva.  Successful candidates will be awarded a one year membership to Finger Lakes Arts Grants and Services.

Geneva Arts encourages you to download the application and submit it along with all required support materials and the rental agreement and to mail them to Geneva Arts Loft Project, 82 Seneca St. Geneva, NY 14456 or email us at info@genevarts.com with specific questions.   

Arthur Dove (1880-1946)

Arthur Dove was arguably the first American modernist to embrace abstraction in 1910, the year his work was first exhibited at 291. (Stieglitz’s Gallery). In the 1920s, while living on a houseboat in Huntington Harbor, Dove returned to the world of objects in a series of lyrical collages. Later he focused upon more traditional landscape subjects surrounding his childhood home in Geneva, New York. In the 1930s and 1940s, Dove continued to test unorthodox materials, as well as new colors in wax emulsion, exploring and displaying an amazing stylistic and technical range. His surging diagonals and repeating, radiating forms suggest forces of growth and decay in nature that evoke remarkable comparisons with the works of Stieglitz and O'Keeffe. Both Dove and Stieglitz believed O'Keeffe's emotionally direct painting had set a standard to follow. Upon seeing her work for the first time in 1916, Dove praised O'Keeffe for "doing naturally what many of us fellows are trying to do and failing." O'Keeffe later praised Dove for being "the only American painter who is of the earth."

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