Title: Elder
Fenix Arts Gallery at Mt. Sequoyah invites artists to participate in Elder, an exhibit that features artworks exploring the enduring nature of queer existence— living, loving, and longing across time. All artists are welcome to submit recent, original work. The exhibit welcomes all mediums that reflect on history, resilience, and the evolving expressions of LGBTQ+ identity, whether through visual art, written word, or interdisciplinary forms.
Submission deadline: May 10th, 2025
Exhibition Dates: June 5 - July 6, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, June 6
Location: Fenix Arts/Gallery
Submit here: https://www.fenixarts.org/opencall Open to: Mid-South Artists Featured Art by Pat Hennon
Exhibition Statement: Softened edges of heavy river stones and lines on a lover’s face in the summer sun. These encounters carry the touch of time; an intrinsic force that (if we’re lucky) draws us further into ourselves and towards one another. Elder seeks to honor the effort of time, through artworks that speak to an insistence of queer people living and loving in the face of often insurmountable odds.
Call: Fenix Arts invites queer artists and writers, of any age, to submit works that reect upon the enduring nature of living, loving, and longing. Through mediums as varied as landscape painting, sculpture, lamps, photographs, short prose, ephemera, old love letters and beyond, we seek to gather a layered collection of work that honors the histories, possibilities, endurances, and methods of placemaking involved in queer and LGBTQ+ existence.
Fenix Gallery will display 15-20 works from visual artists, alongside an in-house publication featuring up to 20 accepted written works.
Unfortunately, we can not cover costs for shipment of work to and from the gallery.
During the submission process, you will be asked to submit a title, artwork dimensions, price, and 2-3 sentence statement about the work.
Acceptance Notification: May 14
Arrival of work to gallery: May 31 - June 1
Curator’s note: As terminology evolves, one thing remains the same: self expression is an embrace. Elder is not merely about representation but about creating a space to embrace and celebrate queer and LGBTQ+ existence in past, present, and future terms. May it be a balm for the ‘uncertainties of becoming’ in queer and LGBTQ+ lives or a treasure trove of thought and image that calls forth the once incomprehensible.
