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Bring Your Art

The Largest Temporary Outdoor Art Gallery in the World

Participants create the most spectacular installations as gifts to the community. Burning Man Project is proud to support artists globally in realizing their visions in Black Rock City and beyond.

All participants are welcome to create art for the playa!

This section will tell you everything you need to know to create art for Burning Man: how to apply for a grant (if you wish), register your art, place it on playa, and remove it at the end of the event – Leaving No Trace.

2025 Black Rock City Art Tour, video by Jamen Percy

Art Grant Programs

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Honoraria Grants

BRC Honoraria Grants support artists in creating innovative, participatory artworks for the annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, known for its focus on creative self-expression.

Learn How to Apply for a Grant

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Temple Grant

The BRC Temple Grant supports the artist and team selected to build the Temple at Burning Man – an ephemeral structure which serves as a shared community space for personal reflection, remembrance, celebration, and healing.

Learn About the Temple Grant

Bringing Art to BRC

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How to Register Your Art

Work with the Art Department to get your art on the map and access Artist Resources

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Art Guidelines

Plan, prepare, successfully install and uninstall your creative works in BRC

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Fire Art Guidelines

Learn how to create, install and operate safe fire art in BRC

Artist Jered Ficklin and the Solarians install The Solar Library. A team of Burners installing a large solar panel.

Artist Resources

Explore the teams, tools, and expertise available to artists in BRC

Art Inside the City

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Art in City Plazas

Most art at Burning Man is placed on the open playa. But there are a few unique opportunities to place art in a BRC plaza, within the city grid.

Create City Plaza Art

Center Camp Art

Whether you’re a painter, sculptor, collage artist, digital dreamer, or creator of something uncategorize-able, we invite you to share your vision here.

Bring Your Art to Center Camp

Welded metal sculpture of two toilets facing each other with seats partly open. The toilets are attached to humanoid lower torso and legs that come together in a web of metal pipes to a single pipe at the base.

Photo Gallery

Photos from our community members featuring iconic art in Black Rock City and around the world.

Visit the Gallery

Explore Burning Man's extensive art history archive

Burning Man Art Archive

Dig into our extensive archive of Black Rock City art.

Visit the BRC Art Archive

I learned that bringing art to Burning Man is very democratic but can also be challenging. Many artists I’ve met were not trained artists and were just compelled to bring art as a gift to the playa and their Burner community.
Regenerative Artist Cecilia Pagkalinawan, creator of “Sanctuaria”

Appreciations

Cover: ‘Reflecting The Present’ by Darrell Ansted. (Photo credit Mark Fromson)
Honoraria: ‘La Victrola’ by La Victrola Society. (Photo credit Debbi Wolff)
Temple Grants: ‘Temple Galaxia’ by Arthur Mamou-Mani. (Photo credit Andrew Wyatt)