Culture Citizen: The Immigrant and the Stranger

This exhibition reconsiders notions of entitlement and ownership of cultural citizenship, asking: How does one gain a right to be heard in their society? Who is a good citizen? How does one have cultural agency? What should the relationship of a host community or country be to that of a migrant and stranger? What role does the immigrant play in cultural production? What happens if the immigrant culture dominates the host culture?

Bridge Gallery is seeking work by artists who examine a variety of creative practices and media within intersections of activism, faith-based practice or theology, social justice and/or community-based work. Topics addressed may include: civic duty, immigration/migration, paths towards legal citizenship, citizenship and cultural production, agency, communities of faith and their responsibility to the "stranger, alien in the land", spiritual citizenship, power dynamics within host and immigrant communities, and colonialism.

Artists may submit 3-10 images. The exhibition is curated by Bridge Gallery and artists are selected by both invitation and this call for submissions. National eligibility.