Stories in Deep Time

The second episode in our Wild Mythologies BROADCAST series, Stories in Deep Time, is now available to stream. Curated and hosted by 2025 Curatorial Fellow Jessica Holtaway, the episode explores the long-term impact of nuclear technologies and the challenge of thinking across geological time. Featuring Veit Stratmann and Aimee Lax, the discussion considers how myth, ritual, and material practice can help us make sense of the invisible and enduring presence of nuclear waste.

L.A. (So) the Story Goes, published by Gato Negro—the acclaimed Mexico City-based independent press known for its bold, risograph-printed books spotlighting experimental and politically engaged work—features writing about 15 Los Angeles-based artists, including 13 artists from Prospect Art’s ONE WORK program.

The publication includes articles on Maya Gurantz, Stephanie Deumer, Samira Yamin, Monica Rodriguez, Rachel Zaretsky, Sichong Xie, Jenny Yurshansky, Alan Nakagawa, Matthew Lax, Jisoo Chung, Andre Keichian, Elise Rasmussen, Alice Könitz, and more.

Join us for a signing with contributing artists and writers on Saturday, May 17 at 1pm at Booth N18 during the LA Art Book Fair, held at ArtCenter College of Design’s South Campus in Pasadena, May 15–18.

The recording of Prospect Art’s May 10 info session is now available to view. Led by co-founder Elizabeth Withstandley, the session outlines key details about the 2025 NEW WORK open call, including eligibility, application guidelines, and responses to participant questions.

Dark Meditations

The first episode of our new webcast series, Wild Mythologies, is now live. Dark Mediation, hosted by 2025 Curatorial Fellow Jessica Holtaway, features a screening of Ythancastir: Atoms on the Wall and a conversation with The Keeling Curve and Nastassja Simensky. Blending sound, film, and dialogue, the episode reflects on land use, nuclear afterlives, and ecological resilience.

Open Call

Prospect Art invites visual artists worldwide to apply for a $1,000 commission to create a new, self-contained project responding to the theme In Flux. Additional opportunities include consideration for our ONE WORK and BROADCAST programs.

Proposals due: June 15, 2025

Minna Philips

We’re excited to announce Minna Philips as the 2025 recipient of our NEW WORK: Focus on Los Angeles grant. Minna is an Inglewood-based artist whose practice draws on higher-dimensional physics, natural systems, and science fiction to explore perception and space. Her new project, inspired by Robert Heinlein’s short story And He Built a Crooked House, will culminate in a solo exhibition at Winslow Garage in Fall 2025.

New Broadcast series curated by Jessica Holtaway

Wild Mythologies is a curated series of discussions and screenings that explore emerging eco-cultural narratives. Grounded in creative inquiry and ecological awareness, the program embraces uncertainty as a space for connection, attentiveness, and resilience. Each artist contributes new questions, offering imaginative responses to the environmental crises shaping our world today.

Maya Gurantz

Read Andrej Mircev’s article Dancing with the Ghost: An Exercise in Counter-Forensics, about Maya Gurantz’s multi-media exhibition “Poem for E.L. (or Processing the Violence of Imposed Narratives.)“

Support Alice Könitz in the Wake of the Eaton Fire

We are deeply saddened to share that Alice Könitz, one of the talented artists we’ve had the privilege of supporting through our programs, has lost her home in the Eaton Fire. In this time of unimaginable loss, we invite our community to come together and support Alice by contributing to her GoFundMe.

Your generosity can make a meaningful difference as she begins to rebuild and recover.

Support Prospect Art

Support Prospect Art by purchasing a limited edition print from our featured artists: Monica Rodriguez, Antar Kuri, Gioj De Marco, Pedro Inoch, Elizabeth Withstandley, Alan Nakagawa, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, and Stephanie Deumer. Each print is available for $125, with an edition size of 10, and your purchase directly supports Prospect Art's mission and programming.

Work by Antar Kuri featured above.

The 181

We are pleased to welcome the 181 collective with special guests Sage Derezin and Eloise Fairbrother, who will be gathering in the Los Angeles area — starting next week — for three compositions.

As a collective, 181 is interested in creating situations that generate experiential spaces which expand, contract, or reassemble as information sloshes about. Imperfect approximations of the universe as a whole.

Learn about the project here.