WEAD Membership Exhibition 2014: Representing and Responding to the Anthropocene

WEAD Membership Exhibit at Thoreau Center for Sustainability Gallery in the San Francisco Presidio, September 19 - November 8, 2014. Reception: September 19, 5-7 PM. Must be a WEAD member to participate. The exhibition calls for works of art that engage with anthropogenic climate change, asking how we represent our degrading environment and its accelerating rate of change with images and projects that go beyond romancing nature or mourning loss. The call seeks works that convey human responsibility for our changing world or encourage recognition of that responsibility in direct actions or participatory/communal projects in response to specific environmental challenges. The exhibition welcomes a wide purview of visual culture, from contemplative images to polemical graphic design to documentation of pragmatic projects aimed at ameliorating environmental degradation. Some outdoor spaces are available for self-funded site-specific works that directly respond to and reveal the social, historical, or ecological history of the Presidio locale.

Submit images of up to 4 artworks available for display, with an optional detail image for each (up to 8 total images). Work should be modest in size, roughly 24 inches long horizontally. Photo documentation of projects should be kept to 8 x 10". Indoor installations and pedestal sculpture are accepted; video submissions are not. Outdoor works on the Presidio site will be represented in the gallery with photo documentation. Submissions must include: 1) Four works with detail images; 2) A brief statement explaining the work's relation to the exhibition call (Times Roman 12 pt, one-inch margins, one page, double-spaced or single-spaced); 3) A one-page resumé for background information. Guest Juror: Suzaan Boettger, Ph.D., art historian and critic. The exhibit will be included in PR for San Francisco Open Studios, October 19-20.