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2024 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition

Call for Artists 2024
For more than 50 years, the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) has hosted the nation’s premier exhibition of African American art. This annual show presents more than 100 works of art from professional and emerging Black artists from across the United States.

Applications to the 2024 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition are now being accepted. Submit your work!

Eligibility
General Category: Black artists 18 years of age or older.
Teen Category: Black teen artists in the Chicagoland area (within 100 miles of museum) currently enrolled in high school, grades 9-12.

Medium
Contemporary works created in any visual medium.

Submitted on Fri, 09/15/2023 - 16:23

Time Memory Mythos

Time Memory Mythos | Exhibition Dates: October 14–November 11, 2023
Open to women and nonbinary artists, Woman Made Gallery seeks artwork in all mediums that explore any of the ideas surrounding the mystery of time, the abstract nature of memory, and/or the necessity and complexity of myth. Entries are juried by Monica J. Brown. $30 entry fee allows submission of up to three works.

First Entry Due Date: August 31, 2023, 11:59 PM CST (entry fee: $30) | Final Entry Due Date (fee increase to $35): September 7, 2023, 11:59 PM

Submitted on Tue, 08/08/2023 - 09:48

Incarceration Affects Families & Community: Call to artists & writers

This project includes writings, art exhibit, documentary, a book. Will focus on art making & writing that show how incarceration has impacted families & communities who are related. Responding to the question - How we can use art to protest, process, & object to How Incarceration Affects Families & Communities? Along with offering written works & art that take up the subject, we will create a documentary, and post our outcome online to show our discussion of the ethics of representation, & what it means to write about and make art about this violence & trauma, neglect & damage of people incarcerated & their families/communities.

Submitted on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 19:03

Time Memory Mythos

Exhibition Dates: October 14–November 11, 2023
Open to women and nonbinary artists, Woman Made Gallery seeks artwork in all mediums that explore any of the ideas surrounding the mystery of time, the abstract nature of memory, and/or the necessity and complexity of myth. Entries are juried by Monica J. Brown. $30 entry fee allows submission of up to three works.
First Entry Due Date: August 31, 2023, 11:59 PM CST (entry fee: $30) | Final Entry Due Date (fee increase to $35): September 7, 2023, 11:59 PM

Submitted on Sun, 07/09/2023 - 16:47

Incarceration Affects Families and Communities

How Incarceration Affects Families and Communities: Call to Artists & Writers

This 2 year project includes writings, art exhibit, a documentary, and a book. It will focus on the art making and writing of works that show how the incarceration of humans has impacted the families and communities who are related.

Submitted on Mon, 05/15/2023 - 22:13

Animal Agriculture Impacts the Environment

Show Title: Animal Agriculture Impacts The Environment

Animal agriculture produces 65% of the world's nitrous oxide emissions which has a global warming impact 296 times greater than carbon dioxide. Raising livestock for human consumption generates nearly 15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, which is greater than all the transportation emissions combined.30% of the word’s total ice-free land surface is used to solely to support animals grown for meat, eggs or dairy products (source). In Australia more than 5% of the natural vegetation has been turned to grazing, primarily for cattle (source). In Brazil, 70% of all original rain-forest has been destroyed for grazing (source).

Submitted on Mon, 05/15/2023 - 21:41

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