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Our Words Will Be Heard

Type: Exhibition Opportunities [View all]
Posted by: Modell-Lyric Theater
Deadline: Wed, February 28th, 2018

For full call details visit: http://www.sarahbmccann.com/our-words-will-be-heard.php

Our Words Will Be Heard is an exhibition planned in conjunction with Rising Up a pilot education program for middle school students at the Modell-Lyric theater. The program asks Baltimore middle school students to create their own lyric narratives that will tell personal stories expressing their perspectives on life. The program led by Modell-Lyric theater Director of Education, Denise Kumani Gantt was inspired by the following quote that was also the inspiration for the title of the concurrent visual arts exhibition: 

When we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive 

~from a Litany for Survival, Audre Lorde

At a time when people are being silenced, the arts provide an opportunity to speak out. It is only through the rising up of all voices that true equilibrium and harmony can be achieved.

This exhibition, curated by Sarah McCann, asks artists to create or submit pieces of artwork that express why speaking up and being heard is important, as well as sharing artists’ own stories related to being silenced and rising up against that silencing. 

To submit work for consideration in this exhibition, e-mail the following to perspectivesgallery@gmail.com by February 28, 2018.

1. Contact information:

Name E-mail Phone number Mailing address

2. Images of 1-3 pieces of artwork (submission fee is $5/image), image files should be:

in jpeg format titled as follows: Lastname_Number, i.e. McCann_1.jpg 600 pixels high 

3. Image list, including:

title dimensions media date created

4. Artist statement about how artwork relates to the theme of the exhibition

5. Artist Bio

6. Website (optional)

7. Receipt number for payment of the submission fee - payment can be made through the paypal button at: http://www.sarahbmccann.com/our-words-will-be-heard.php

Posted on Tue, February 13th, 2018
Expires on Wed, February 28th, 2018

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