The Orange County Curator Challenge (OC3) was a collaborative exhibition which paired emerging and established curators with a local artist, offering the opportunity to win an exhibition space for a future project. This show was our very first collaboration.

Born from winning the viewer's choice award at OC3, this exhibition paid tribute to innovative masters of the past through reimagined or referenced renditions of iconic and classical art. This educational project challenges viewers to contemplate art history and its contemporary influence.

We continued our curatorial collaboration by hosting exhibitions in my studio space at the Grand Central Arts Center in Santa Ana, California. These exhibitions included a bi-coastal artist collaboration, a community river clean up, and a residency featuring New York "trash" artist Amanda Patenaude.

Day Job Projects is a freelance curatorial team founded by Kimberly McKinnis and Heather Bowling. Past projects range from group exhibitions to artist and curator collaborations. Since September of 2013, they put together over twenty exhibitions throughout Orange County, California. Their last exhibition was Let Them Eat Cake- A Second Helping, in the fall of 2019 at the Old Dominion University’s Ellin & Barron Art Gallery and included guest curator Jen Hand from Norfolk, Virginia. They are currently working on an exhibition scheduled for the fall of 2022 at the City of Brea Art Gallery in Orange County, California.

The team can be reached at dayjobprojects@gmail.com.