2024 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition

For more than 50 years, the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) has hosted the nation's premier exhibition of African American art. This annual show presents more than 100 works of art from professional and emerging Black artists from across the United States.

Applications are being accepted for the 2024 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition. The General Category is open to Black artists 18 years of age or older. A Teen Category is available for Black teen artists in the Chicagoland area (within 100 miles of museum) currently enrolled in high school, grades 9-12. Contemporary works created in any visual medium are eligible. The entry fee for the General Category is $10 (non-refundable); the Teen Category has no fee. Work must have been completed in the past three years (2021 or later), must be original and unsold, and cannot have been selected for any previous Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition. Work must be anonymously submitted without watermarks, video credits, or artist names.

Awards for the General Category include Best in Show ($3,000), Second Place ($2,000), and Third Place ($1,000). Teen Category awards are Best in Show ($500), Second Place ($300), and Third Place ($200). General Category award winners will also receive two complimentary tickets to the 2024 Black Creativity Gala held at MSI in Chicago, IL. Jurors are Daria McMeans (Interdisciplinary Artist and Lecturer in Art at Lake Forest College), Gervais Marsh, PhD (Independent Curator, Writer, and Scholar), and Janet Dees (Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University). Submissions are accepted via CaFE only. The application deadline is October 15, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. MDT. Acceptance notifications will be sent on or around November 1, 2023. The exhibition runs from January 15, 2024 to April 21, 2024. For questions, contact [email protected].