Gladstone Hotel’s fifth annual Grow Op exhibition, a four-day exhibition in conjunction with Earth Day, celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art, and place-making, is open for submissions for 2017.
#GrowOp2017 is seeking proposals that employ the tools of art, craft and design to reframe our understanding of the shifting boundaries between urban and wild, culture and nature. From community horticultural initiatives to experimental landscapes to disruptive art projects, the Gladstone is seeking proposals from individuals and collectives whose work engages with landscape, place and habitats with the goal of creating an experiential exhibition of high quality that is evocative and boundary-pushing. The use of plant material is not a specific requirement. Submissions are encouraged from a wide variety of creative practitioners including the following: visual artists, fabricators, craftspeople, planners, historians, arborists, agriculturalists, landscape architects, cooks, ecologists, botanists, performance artists, musicians, filmmakers, scientists, sound artists, gardeners, writers, poets, designers, architects and urbanists.
There are many ways to participate:

Room Installations: Room installations invite participants to design immersive projects in the various studio spaces in the 2nd floor Gladstone Gallery.
Site-Specific Public Space Installations/Projects – Onsite: Hotel interior spaces include the pu...