Sowing Agency: Call for Entries
*SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED* Sunday, November 15th, 2020 at 11:59PM *ABOUT THE EXHIBITION* Presented by Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC), "Sowing Agency" is inspired by Asian Pacific Islander leaders fighting for environmental justice. Our communities are underrepresented in climate conversations, but this crisis impacts all of us differently across intersections of language, class, spirituality, cultural practices, geography, citizenship and indigeneity. We seek work that responds to the following: • How might we go about “seeding the future” and “seeding freedom” as Vandana Shiva writes? What are our roles in the fight for environmental justice? Who are the leaders in our communities resisting the industries polluting our bodies, the air, water and soil? • How do power, wealth and opportunity impact our relationship with the Earth? How might we restore that which has been stolen? Can we? • What can re-emerge, when we reflect on our kinship with the environment: ancestral, immigrant, refugee, indigenous, women, queer, trans and otherwise? How can we acknowledge and heal from climate grief in order to regenerate awareness and resilience? This is a space to sow agency on the issues affecting the health, safety and sacred futures of our human and non-human communities. Read more info on the exhibition and the call for entries at www.aawaa.net/sowing-agency-entries -- In addition to our general submission we’re also looking for artists to help with two projects from our community partners. Please let us know if you would be interested in collaborating in any of the following ways in the application: • Create a series of paintings documenting environmental justice leaders and activists in the Richmond Lao community, who have been involved in long-standing organizing against Chevron. For this show we’re requesting an artist from the community, in partnership with Asian Pacific Environmental Network. • Draw, paint or photograph one piece representing South Asian environmental activists, in partnership with Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. *ELIGIBILITY* OPEN TO ALL ARTISTS OF COLOR OF ANY GENDER IDENTIFICATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 18 YEARS AND OLDER *ENTRY FEE* $25-35 Sliding Scale $10 off for current AAWAA members w/ promo code PAY HERE: www.aawaa.net/shop/exhibition-entry-fee FREE for new members who sign up now through November 15, 2020. Sign up at https://members.aawaa.net/signup/step-1 If you are an artist experiencing any form of economic hardship, please feel free to contact us at exhibitions@aawaa.net for a fee waiver. Questions? Email exhibitions@aawaa.net