Maguire Art Museum – Evolving Freedoms

Evolving Freedoms invites contemporary artists to submit work that reflects on the shifting landscape of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This exhibition seeks to explore how these foundational ideals are interpreted, challenged, and reimagined through personal experience, social movements, and collective memory. The exhibition will bring together regional contemporary artists whose work reflects on the ever-shifting meaning of freedom in today's world.

The museum is looking for photography and print-based works that engage critically, poetically, or personally with themes such as identity and self-expression, civil rights and social justice, cultural heritage and collective memory, environmental and economic freedoms, the cost and complexity of liberty, and reimagining happiness in contemporary society. Up to 10 pieces per artist may be submitted. All work must be original and completed within the past 10 years. Please include a brief artist statement (max 250 words) about how your work relates to the exhibition theme. There is no entry fee.

Exhibition Dates: September 17 – December 13, 2026. Chosen artists are responsible for shipping/transporting their art to and from the museum. Contact: Maguire Art Museum, 5600 City Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19131, (610) 660-1000.