Submission Details
Artists are invited to submit 3–5 available works for consideration. Works do not need to be newly created for this exhibition, but they should connect to the theme in a thoughtful way.
The exhibition is open to a variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography, mixed media, collage, fiber/textile, digital art, sculpture, installation, poetry or text-based visual work, video, sound, and interactive work.
All work must be original, exhibition-ready, and suitable for public display. Two-dimensional work must be wired, framed if needed, or otherwise prepared to hang safely. Artists submitting video, sound, digital, sculptural, or installation-based work must provide all required equipment and display materials unless otherwise agreed in writing.
Selected artists are responsible for delivery and pickup of their artwork from 1310 Gallery in Fort Lauderdale.
Fees
There is no mandatory fee to submit.
A suggested donation of $20 is welcome to help offset exhibition and production costs, but it is not required and will not affect selection.
Donations may be made here:
https://givebutter.com/wye_whatwecarry
Theme Guidance
Submitted artwork should fit or complement the theme:
What We Carry: A Community Art Exhibition & Dialogue
Artwork may explore the emotional, cultural, ancestral, political, and personal weight we hold — and the ways creativity helps us name, transform, release, and reimagine what lives within us.
Submissions may interpret the theme through personal, cultural, emotional, spiritual, ancestral, political, or social lenses.
We are especially interested in work that carries emotional truth, lived experience, reflection, or social meaning — not only visual beauty, but the story, feeling, or question beneath it.
Possible themes include:
- Identity
- Memory
- Healing
- Belonging
- Grief
- Resistance
- Visibility
- Care
- Ancestry
- Body as archive
- Inner peace
- Joy
- Softness
- Celebration
- Rest and restoration
- Survival and transformation
- Language, erasure, and naming the unspoken
- What we inherit
- What we release
- What we are learning to hold differently
This exhibition is not only about trauma or hardship. It is also about what sustains us: beauty, breath, ritual, creativity, community, humor, softness, spirit, memory, and the possibility of being held.
Artist Terms & Conditions
Artists must review and agree to the full 2026 What We Carry Artist Terms & Conditions before submitting.
Please read the linked Terms & Conditions carefully and complete the required agreement checkbox below.