North Mass Boulder is designed to be a welcoming space that forges a vibrant community centered around health, friendship, and purpose. Our Community Arts Program was created to amplify the artistic expression of our community members. We believe that fresh, community-generated art breathes life into our facility and inspires a more meaningful and thoughtful experience for our members and guests.
Application Process
If you are interested in showing your work with us, please submit a single PDF document with all of the following information to communityart@northmassboulder.com. If accepted, we will work with you to curate a selection of pieces to be displayed at our Roosevelt facility for up to two months.
Resume
In your resume, please focus on your experience showing your work. Whether you’ve had your work in galleries, coffee shops, or at a friend’s house, let us know how you’ve put your art out into the world in the past. Please limit this to one page.
Portfolio
Please submit either 10 of your top pieces or two distinct series (of roughly 8-12 pieces total) that you would like to show.
Artist Statement
Why do you create? What inspires you? What does your work say? We are looking for what makes your work unique, intriguing, and meaningful. Please limit the length of your artist statement to one page.
Content Criteria
NMB is an inclusive and family-friendly facility. We won’t accept work containing nudity, profanity, or inflammatory political content, and will make decisions on artist submissions based on our values.
Current Artist
Tierra Leustig is originally from Los Angeles, and has lived in Indianapolis since 2019. She has been passionate about painting, drawing, and creating since she was a child, constantly discovering new mediums and styles, and honing her craft over the last 27 years.
Recently, Tierra has experimented with new styles, mediums, and subject matter, finding a unique love for the abstract, and comfort in the freedom, forgiveness, and interpretation it offers. She is continuously exploring how line, shape, and color combine to create unique imagery that is equally obvious and ambiguous to viewers.
Tierra specializes in pieces that employ continuous line work to explore subject matter like human forms, faces, still life objects, and nature. Combining line work with color brings out unique shapes in each piece that continue to come to life in front of viewers' eyes.
Through her work, Tierra seeks to relinquish control over perfection that is often expected in the discipline of visual art, embracing the natural imperfections in form that come with abstract line work and expression.