A Watched Pot Always Boils

Open media call for artwork for an upcoming exhibition at Umpqua Valley Arts. Exhibition dates: April 2 – June 4, 2021. Entry fee: $10.00. Submit 1-3 images of your work.

The year 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women's constitutional right to vote. However, while this sounds ideal in theory, in practice many women of color found themselves unable to exercise their legal right to cast a ballot, depriving them of a voice in local and federal elections. As the New York Times noted in their evaluation of the 19th Amendment's centennial, "millions of other women… remained shut out of the polls until the voting rights act was passed in 1965." This exhibition celebrates this anniversary by looking through an intersectional lens at agency, access and opportunity in order to shed light on what it takes to participate fully in American society, to tell one's own story, and to shape the destiny of one's community.

This exhibition offers a space for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, disabled, fat, and other folks to fill these social gallery spaces with their voices, identities, and to tell their stories. The organizers/curators seek to highlight a wide range of artists who address intersectionality while also exploring and expressing their own individual identities in their works. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to sexism, racism, ableism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and fatphobia. Eligibility: National.