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OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The City of West Hollywood presents

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2025: VOICE

Application Deadline MARCH 16, 2025, 11:59PM PST

ENGAGEMENT | AGENCY | PRESENCE | RESONANCE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. February 3, 2025. LA. Art in Odd Places (AiOP) is pleased to announce the dates, curator, and theme of the twentieth edition of the iconic public visual and performance art festival in the City of West Hollywood at Plummer Park, West Hollywood Park, and Sunset Plaza scheduled for July 25, 26, and 27, 2025.

Our hearts go out to everyone impacted by the 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles. Even amid these hardships, the AiOP 2025: VOICE / WEHO team believes in the unifying and healing power of art, and made the collective decision to move forward with our open call for artists - as an offering to support resilience, build community, and create opportunities for recovery during this precarious time.

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2025: VOICE / West Hollywood, curated by Deborah Oliver, asks artists to consider and explore the many ways voices resonate in public spaces. Inspired by West Hollywood’s legacy as a hub for activism and culture, the festival asks: How can art express the complexity of our times? Can art help us find resonance and connection amidst disconnection?

We invite individual and collaborative artists to propose projects for AiOP 2025: VOICE / WEHO an outdoor public visual and performance art festival in West Hollywood. We welcome projects that use installations, actions, gestures, and sound to reflect on the power of VOICE. We encourage artists to create spaces where audiences can listen, participate, and reflect—spaces that make complexity visible and foster dialogue. Whether through solo actions or collaborative projects, we are exploring how art can amplify unheard voices, bridge divides, and reimagine community.

What is voice? Is it spoken or heard? Visible or subliminal? Is it seen in the way we dress, move, or create? Is it silent yet present in our choices, the communities we form, and the ways we engage with the world? How do we find our voice in times of division? What happens when we amplify it? What happens when we don’t? As we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Art in Odd Places festival and the 40th anniversary of the City of West Hollywood, we honor the voices that have shaped these milestones—voices of creativity, resilience, and advocacy. West Hollywood, a city born from collective action, reminds us that when people make their voices heard, extraordinary change is possible.

Let us celebrate VOICE together—an expression of identity, agency, and the shared humanity that connects us all.

AiOP 2025: VOICE / WEHO is dedicated to Jacki Apple (1941-2022) – an artist, writer, composer, producer, and educator based in New York and Los Angeles. A champion of performance and conceptual art, she was dedicated to increasing the cultural power of fellow artists.

Art in Odd Places is a project of GOH Productions.