Call for Submissions: sitting with It

Open call for Black artists:

Artists are asked to submit works for Teichert Gallery’s February show: sitting with It.

To apply, artists must identify as Black, mixed-race or with African Heritage.

While we remain feeling stiff and taut, how are we allowed to absolve ourselves of tension? In which ways are we allowed to sit in stillness, reflect on the tools in which we equip ourselves? This might look like public spectacle, performance, pastiche or abstraction. To liberate one from this tension, we are lucky to have the gift of depicting these complex feelings into artwork. sitting with It is a collection of pieces from Black artists reflecting on the everyday feelings of tension. Depicting the feelings of the undoing or feelings rooted in tensions surrounding their experience with Black identity in rich and unique ways.

The Exhibition will be curated by a Black guest curator, Nina-Simone Kellman, and artworks will be juried. For artworks to be consigned with Teichert Gallery, they must follow Teichert’s framing and accessions policies (available on teichertgallery.ca), if they do not, the artist agrees their work will be displayed for the duration of the exhibition and can be available for purchase if the artist allows. submit here: https://form.jotform.com/teichertgallery/art-submission-form