“Kaleidoscope”

The Annual Members’ Exhibit January 4-28, 2024

Kaleidoscope celebrates the unending creativity of HCA’s artist members. This exhibit is open to all current members of HCA, and there is no entry fee. Enter early, as exhibition space is limited.

Entries close at 6PM (PST) December 22, 2023. Artists will be notified of acceptance by December 26 via email. Art work submitted must have been created in the last two years, be properly wired for hanging (no alligator clips, etc.); work is not to exceed 36”W or 48”H; if sculptural, work may not exceed 40lbs. and must be able to rest stably on a flat surface. Two dimensional work must be original, NO Giclees.

Southwest Contemporary invites artists throughout the Southwest to submit work to be included in Southwest Contemporary’s Spring-Summer 2024 issue, which will explore the theme “Living Histories.”

Some histories are cast in bronze, frozen in time, and memorialized for posterity. Some are transmitted through spoken stories, living on in the memories of those who hear them.

This issue of Southwest Contemporary will delve into the past to reveal the workings of the present. What underground vaults, under-told stories, and obscured narratives can we bring to light? Who are the record keepers, the archivists, the knowledge holders? How have histories been kept and cherished, or suppressed and erased? What do we commemorate, what do we forget?