FAQ

Anyone can submit a project to FIGMENT! Adults, children, professional artists or those looking to create their first piece! Anyone who can bring their project to FIGMENT by their own means and de-install it when the event is over is welcome to submit. 

In the past, FIGMENT has hosted a wide variety of artistic endeavors… Street theater, costuming, sculpture, inflatable art, dance, performance art, installations, social experiments, mobile art, workshops, games, community building projects, arts & crafts, sound art, bands & DJs, lectures & seminars on themes of participatory art & culture, and anything else you can imagine! Please do remember that FIGMENT is an event for everyone when deciding on subject matter for your project.

Installations, performances, activities, or other projects that can be set up outdoors are welcome. We will have a 40 foot stage available for performances, and certain parts of Riverside Park may provide suitable stage-like areas. You can set up your own area or host a scheduled event or performance. If you have an idea for FIGMENT and have questions about whether it’s plausible, don’t hesitate to get in touch. No matter what you do, the one requirement is that it somehow engages audience participation. Just bring it to FIGMENT and try it out!

The deadline to apply for an artist grant is July 31st 2021. The final deadline for FIGMENT submissions is August 31st 2021

FIGMENT is a community-based event organized and run by volunteers. Its success is dependent on community participation. FIGMENT does NOT provide funding for the production, transportation, or insurance of works to, at, or from the site with the exception of works specifically awarded a grant through our apllication portal. FIGMENT encourages artists to apply for outside grants and fundraise for your project within your personal capacity. Please note that no corporate sponsorship (including logos and credit lines) is permitted at the event. In addition, nothing may be sold at the event.

Arrangements must be made with the FIGMENT team for all deliveries, installations, and de-installations to or from Riverside Park. Once you have submitted your project, you can speak about logistical needs in more detail with one of our curators.

Artists are encouraged to set up and break down their exhibits before and after FIGMENT, instead of during the event itself. Setup will begin the morning of the event at 6 AM and everything MUST be torn down by 12:00 noon the following day. We are not responsible for work left on site overnight after the event.

If you would like to DJ at FIGMENT, we would recommend getting together with friends to propose a project as a collective, and making your DJ stage part of the proposal. Previous FIGMENT events have had collectives including Disorient, Fairytale Collective, and Wax, all of which included DJs as part of their themed area. If you want to propose a project that involves multiple DJs, you will be responsible for curating the group during FIGMENT Weekend. Please contact [email protected] for more information on how to curate a DJ area.

Please do not distribute fliers or printed materials at FIGMENT. We are trying to provide as waste-free an event as possible.

We kindly ask that you do not sell anything – including CDs – at FIGMENT. FIGMENT is an entirely free and non-commercial event in which everyone volunteers their time and effort to participate… the organizers, the artists, the participants. Interactions between people are not mediated by commercial transactions of any kind. Everything at FIGMENT is free, and there is no advertising, nothing for sale, and no one insisting that you have to give a donation to participate. We understand that many of you make your livelihoods by selling your art and we support you – FIGMENT is just not the time or place.

Yes, you may collect addresses, but we ask that you manage the list and make it clear to participants that they are signing up for your list and not the FIGMENT list. Please do not leave unattended clipboards around the site; keep the list with you so that you can get participants excited about your project.

FIGMENT promotes self reliance, so please make every effort to bring all the supplies that you need for your project. As an all volunteer event, we give our time and passion to the event, but it’s a bit more challenging to buy things. FIGMENT can help direct you to free, donated and low cost resources from which to source materials. Please get in touch with us for more information: Jacksonville@figmentproject.org.

We encourage you to bring projects that you can carry into the site on foot. Projects will not be on our map or schedule, but FIGMENT is about serendipity and discovery so that’s quite all right. Unregistered projects will not have access to power, cannot be stored overnight and cannot be installed in a building or on any structure on the site. Please take your portable project with you when you leave the site and leave no trace.

Due to city rules no staking of any kind, digging into the ground, or attachment to tress is allowed. If you have any questions or need installation guidance please contact us at [email protected]

Yes! Tables/chairs/shade tents/grills/ gargantuan coolers/couches/kiddie pools are strongly encouraged.

No, please do not hang or affix anything from to any of the trees in Riverside Park. 

No. Alcohol is not allowed on the site.

Nothing is bought or sold at FIGMENT and thus there will be no food vendors within Riverside Park. We encourage you to bring a picnic or visit one of the nearby restaurants or food trucks at the Riverside Arts Market