Open Call: We Answer to Each Other Exhibition at Mainframe Studios - Iowa Artist Directory
Submit existing or new work engaging with Black artistic practice and the African diaspora across disciplines.
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- 20 days left
- Entry fee
- Free
- Location
- Mainframe Studios
- Exhibition window
- Nov 1, 2026 → Nov 30, 2026
About
Overview
Mainframe Studios presents We Answer to Each Other, a juried exhibition exploring Black art as a living conversation. The show celebrates Black artistic practice as an act of self-determination across centuries and the African diaspora, inviting work that is formally ambitious, intellectually rigorous, and emotionally resonant.
Theme & Scope
Artists may submit existing or new work in response to the theme. The exhibition welcomes submissions from a wide range of disciplines maintaining a reasonable connection to the theme, including work engaging questions of cultural inheritance, community, migration, spirituality, liberation, literature, music, and political imagination. It welcomes both work that confronts racism, fascism, colonialism, poverty, and war, and work celebrating joy, intimacy, humor, beauty, ritual, and everyday Black life.
Key Dates
- Application period: August 1 – September 20, 2026
- Submission deadline: Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM (CST); late submissions will not be accepted
- Exhibition: November 2026
- Special reception: First Friday, November 6, 2026, 5–8 PM
Fees
There is no entry fee to apply.
Jurors
Abena Sankofa Imhotep and Dr. Negus Rudison-Imhotep
Contact
Libby Crimmings, [email protected], 515-207-5197
- Entry fee
- Free to enter
- Theme
- An exhibition exploring Black art as a living conversation across centuries and the African diaspora. The show invites work engaging questions of cultural inheritance, community, migration, spirituality, liberation, literature, music, and political imagination, welcoming both work that confronts systemic injustice and work celebrating joy, intimacy, humor, beauty, ritual, and everyday Black life.
- Eligibility
- Open to artists across a wide range of disciplines maintaining a reasonable connection to the theme.
- Contact
- [email protected]
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