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Open Call for THRIVE: Beyond Surviving
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Posted by: Taber Art Gallery
Deadline: Sat, August 31st, 2024
Open Call for THRIVE: Beyond Surviving
Exhibition Dates: October 31 - December 20, 2024
Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m., August 31, 2024
A U.S. Department of Agriculture 2022 report found that 44.2 million people lived in households that had difficulty getting enough food to feed everyone in 2022, up from 33.8 million people the year prior. Those families include more than 13 million children experiencing food insecurity, a jump of nearly 45 percent from 2021.
Life in the last 5 years has been challenging for a lot of people. With the seemingly endless rise in costs for basic necessities, getting through each day has become a more stressful endeavor. This generation has faced multiple recessions, a global pandemic, increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters, skyrocketing food and housing prices, unaffordable medical care, and the stress of global unrest. Surviving, the ability to continue living and existing, takes a deep psychological toll. Ensuring the bare minimum of food to eat, somewhere to call home, and the most basic health care, has become more and more difficult.
Taber Art Gallery, in partnership with the Thrive Center, at Holyoke Community College is seeking submissions for THRIVE: Beyond Surviving on view October 31 - December 20, 2024. Artists are encouraged to enter work that considers the systemic, communal, and/or individual obstacles and barriers to survival, what surviving means, how we as humans can continue to dream, push, and hope for more than the minimum, and the struggle of exhaustion vs. the ability to rest.
EligibilityThis exhibition is open to any media. Artists must be over 18 and not currently enrolled in an undergraduate program. All work must be original. Collaborations are accepted. Any media is accepted.
SelectionArtwork will be selected by Taber Art Gallery Director, Rachel Rushing, and Thrive Center Special Programs Coordinator, Ben Ostiguy. Notification of acceptance will be made by September 31, 2024 by email.
CommunicationIf you have any questions about the exhibition, please contact Rachel Rushing at rrushing@hcc.edu. All emails will be responded to within 48 hours. Emails sent after 3pm on Fridays will be responded to by 5pm the following Tuesday.
TimelineSubmission due: August 31, 2024, 11:59pm
Notification: September 31, 2024
Receipt of selected artwork: October 21-25, 2024
Exhibition Open: October 31, 2024
Opening Reception: October 31, 2024
Exhibition Closes: December 20, 2024
Artwork Returned: by January 30, 2025
Enter at https://taber.fillout.com/thrive
Posted on Tue, June 11th, 2024
Expires on Sat, August 31st, 2024
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