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FUEL LOADING: Stories of Fire Online Art Exhibition

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Posted by: The Confluence Lab & Prichard Art Gallery
Deadline: Fri, August 15th, 2025

Fire depends on the fuels that feed it. Together with topography and weather, the density and spatial arrangement of fuels determine a wildfire’s behavior: how hot it gets, where it burns, and how quickly it spreads. Fire managers use the term “fuel loading” to categorize the amounts and types of fuels through which fire moves. Dry grasses, shrubs, dense stands of conifers, logging slash: the accumulation of fuels onto the landscape reflects both ecological processes and the cultural and social imperatives that shape land management. Whether historical policies of fire suppression and industrialized land use, continuing structural racial and economic disparities, or contemporary calls for environmental stewardship and Indigenous fire sovereignty, all these fuels load onto the landscape as uneven densities, distributions and renewals.

As the second part of the Stories of Fire online exhibition series, FUEL LOADING will showcase creative works that reckon with the accumulations of fuels–both material and social–in the Pacific Northwest and surrounding regions. We seek creative works that engage a broad conception of landscape fire and its contributing fuel loads. How can the densities and arrangements of fuels be measured? What build-ups, what residues, what sparks need to be recognized and articulated? How is fire moving through these fuels and across these cultural, social and ecological landscapes? How do fire and justice converge?

 

eligibility & terms: Artists & designers may be residents of the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, tribal sovereign nations of the region, or any artists responding to fires within the Pacific Northwest and adjacent regions. Some of the artists selected for the Stories of Fire series may be invited to participate in the Stories of Fire Atlas, a brick-and-mortar exhibition (gallery construction pending), and other Confluence Lab opportunities. 

There is no submission fee or age expectation. 

Works submitted may be of any genre and must be original work. There are no size restrictions for work, but in line with an online exhibition, quality documentation is paramount. 

 

submission deadline: August 15, 2023

jury notifications: August 31, 2023

exhibition opens: September 15, 2023 

 

More submission information here.

 

Stories of Fire Exhibition Series:

part I: GROUND TRUTHS (currenlty on view)

part II: FUEL LOADING

part III: SIGHTLINES (call opens fall 2023)

Posted on Tue, July 11th, 2023
Expires on Fri, August 15th, 2025

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