Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
-
"A Folk Perspective"
Exhibition Dates:
Aug 16th - Sept 20th 2025
Call Open -
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent
Exhibition Dates:
Oct 1 2025 - Jan 31 2026
Call Open
Exhibition
“A Folk Perspective”
The Chickamauga Art & Folk Festival of 2025 has this exhibition accompanying the celebration of art and culture in the South East region and beyond, with the opening reception of the exhibition falling on the festival day of August 16th. Artists participating as vendors in the festival are encouraged to apply, as well as artists not in the festival.
Curatorial Statement
This exhibition celebrates folk art as a living, evolving language, open to both traditional and contemporary interpretations. With a focus on honoring Appalachian and Indigenous artists and the cultural lineages they carry, the show also welcomes artists from all backgrounds whose work engages with the spirit of folk through place, story, material, or memory. From the symbolic to the abstract, these works reflect the enduring power of folk traditions to connect, question, and inspire across generations.
This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your work within the 109 gallery, Vendors or Artists looking to be considered for the accompanying art exhibition Please apply through the artist application. There will be a printed zine catalog of the exhibition with one copy provided free of charge for each artist in the exhibition. Catalog will also be available for purchase at a minimum cost to the public.
Applications Due: June 30th by Midnight- Extension to July 27th Midnight
Application Fee: $10 this covers operational costs, gallery overhead as this is an artist-run space and not a non-profit, promotion of artists and exhibition, printed catalog, marketing, and access to the community free of charge.
Works delivered by mail or in person by: August 1st mailed work must have a return label, more shipping tips and information can be found in the application and artists agreement upon acceptance.
Exhibition Dates: Opening Reception August 16th 6:00pm
Artist Talk with Q&A: August 16th 6:30pm Artist able to attend in person are encouraged to participate in a casual and short artist talk sharing about their work, process, and inspiration with a Q&A that will take place at 6:30pm during the opening reception.
Exhibition from August 16th - September 20th
Art Pick up or return Delivery September 21st-27th
Printed Zine Catalog one free copy for each artist in the exhibition, those unable to pick up their copy will have it mailed when artwork is returned or picked up.
Open To All, All Works, and Perspectives informed or inspired by this exhibition topic and theme.
”A Folk Perspective”
Artist Application
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent
Curatorial Statement:
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent investigates the intersection of bodies, ecology, and agency through the lens of permeability and protection. Drawing from Elvia Wilk’s assertion that health hinges on the regulation of what enters and exits the body's borders, this exhibition explores how consent is navigated within biological, political, and ecological systems.
“Whether one is speaking of relating well with humans or nonhumans, in the variety of ways in which we relate ( sexually, intimately-but-not-sexually, as food, fuel or material “resources”), we are talking about sustaining one another.”
-Kim TallBear
“The achievement of health is premised on the ability to control what enters and exits the body’s borders.”
- Elvia Wilk
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) in collaboration with The 109 Gallery invites work that addresses the ethics of bodily autonomy, the fluidity of borders,
and challenges rigid classifications of self and other. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how bodies; human, animal, vegetal, and microbial, are sites of negotiation, resistance, and transformation in an era of ecological precarity.
Open for Applications April 15, 2025
Submission Deadline June 30, 2025
Exhibition October 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
Open to performance art, 2D & 3D works, and work that addresses the theme and focus of Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent. Open to individual artists and collectives.
Online Exhibition Published on our Kunstmatrix gallery page
Additional option to show in a Physical Exhibition at The 109 Gallery in Chickamauga, GA.
Published Catalog of Exhibition
Art & Science Panel: date TBD
Other Artist Talks | Film Screenings | And Engagements: dates TBD
Submission Fee
$Free for WEAD Members
$45.00 Non WEAD Members
This includes a one year membership with WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) and has accompanying benefits, such as features, being a part of our membership Artists directory, Newsletter member highlights, and more.
WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) requires that you be a paid WEAD member ($45 fee) in order to be eligible to be juried. Payment is due upon application or no later than submission due date of June 30th.
Link To Apply & Submission Guidelines: EntryThingy
Juror: Beverly Naidus
Beverly Naidus's art life has straddled the socially engaged margins of the art world, collaborations with activist groups, and community-based art projects. Much of her work deals with ecological and social issues that have adversely affected her and those around her. Remediation and reconstructive visions are key concepts that guide her work. Her primary forms are public installations, digital projects, and artist’s books that explicitly gather stories from visitors. She has shared her work in city streets, in alternative spaces, university galleries and major museums. Her work has been written about in many books and journals and has developed an international audience. After exciting chapters in New York City and Los Angeles, including fruitful periods in Minnesota, Halifax, Nova Scotia and western Massachusetts, she has made a home in the Pacific Northwest since 2003.
Naidus has taught art as a subversive activity at NYC museums, the Institute for Social Ecology, California State University, Long Beach, Goddard College, Hampshire College and Carleton College, and has led workshops all over the world, both in person and online. In 2020, she retired from UW Tacoma where, for 17 years, she had created and facilitated an innovative, interdisciplinary studio arts curriculum in art for social change and healing. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame (a book that is shifting studio arts curriculum around the world) and has written & published many essays on eco-art and social practice as well as a few works of speculative fiction. She is currently writing a book to help us creatively navigate these uncertain times.
faculty.washington.edu
Submission Detials
To learn more about Women Eco Artists Dialog visit their website weadartists.org
Artist Application
Applications on EntryThingy
Recommended Reading: Articles/Books/Quotes/Other:
Agard-Jones, Vanessa. “Bodies in the System.” Small Axe : A Journal of Criticism 17, no. 3 (2013): 182–192.
Chen, Mel Y. Animacies : Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.
Collins, Reiko Goto, and Timothy M. Collins. “Art and Living Things: The Ethical, Aesthetic Impulse.” Human-Environment Relations, Springer Netherlands, pp. 121–33, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2825-7_10.
Conley, Verena Andermatt. Ecopolitics : The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought. London ; Routledge, 1997.
Ferguson, Roderick A. “Of Sensual Matters: On Audre Lorde’s ‘Poetry Is Not a Luxury’ and ‘Uses of the Erotic.’” Women’s studies quarterly 40, no. 3/4 (2012): 295–300.
Fremantle, Chris. 2021. “BD Owens Reviews ‘Assuming the Ecosexual Position’ by Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle.” Ecoartscotland.net. December 27. Accessed January 5, 2022. https://ecoartscotland.net/2021/12/27/bd-owens-reviews-assuming-the-ecosexual-position/.
Gaard, Greta. “Queering Environmental Justice Through an Intersectional Lens.” American Journal of Public Health (1971), vol. 112, no. 1, 2022, pp. 57–58, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306489.
Getsy, David J. A SIGHT TO WITHHOLD. Artforum International. Vol. 56. New York: Artforum Inc, 2018.
Getsy, David. Abstract Bodies : Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
Haraway, Donna. “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.” Environmental Humanities, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015, pp. 159–65, https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3615934.
Hessler, Stefanie, ed. Sex Ecologies. First edition. Trondheim, Norway: Kunsthall Trondheim, 2021.
Heinrich, Ari Larissa, and Jes Fan. “218An Interview with Jes Fan.” In Mapping the Posthuman, 1:218–222. 1st ed. Routledge, 2024.
“Kingston Coal Ash Disaster Still Reverberates 10 Years Later.” 2021. Southern Environmental Law Center. October 14. https://www.southernenvironment.org/news/kingston-coal-ash-disaster-still-reverberates-10-years-later/
Laibman, David. “Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation.” Science & Society. New York: Guilford Publications, 2006.
Mallory, Chaone. “Val Plumwood and Ecofeminist Political Solidarity: Standing with the Natural Other.” Ethics and the environment 14, no. 2 (2009): 3–21.
Manolescu, Monica. “‘Proposals for Change’: Art, Ecology and Intermediation in Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison’s The Lagoon Cycle, Breathing Space for the Sava River and Endangered Meadows of Europe.” European Journal of American Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.19739.
“Microplastics in Every Human Placenta, New UNM Health Sciences Research Discovers.” 2024. Unm.edu. https://hsc.unm.edu/news/2024/02/hsc-newsroom-post-microplastics.html#:~:text=In%20a%20study%20published%20February,790%20micrograms%20per%20gram%20of.
Theunis Piersma, Jan A. van Gils. “The Flexible Phenotype: A Body-Centred Integration of Ecology, Physiology and Behaviour” https://books.google.com/books?id=kvTl_laSMIkC&lpg=PR7&ots=pUU1UoUngr&dq=bodies%20and%20ecology&lr&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=bodies%20and%20ecology&f=false