Call for Art - ARC Gallery

2156 N. Damen Avenue    ·    Chicago, Illinois 60647    ·    773-252-2232

APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPT. 20 2014 THE "F" WORD: FEMINISM NOW Apply Now Online: application form  A Juried Exhibition at ARC Gallery, Chicago,  November 26-December 20 2014 JUROR: Jeanne Dunning, Professor of Art, Northwestern University Jeanne Dunning's photographic, sculptural and video work explores our relationship to our own physicality, looking at the strange and unfamiliar in the body, gender and notions of normality. Her work has been shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe since the late 1980s. It has been included in major group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. In 1998 it was included in "New Photography 14," a four person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has had one person shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Konstmuseet in Malmö, Sweden and the Berkeley Art Museum and she completed a web-based work for the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 2002.  APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPT. 20 2014 As ARC was founded in the 70's during the height of the Feminist Art Movement, we have decided to organize a tribute to feminist exhibitions. Rather than revisit the history of Feminist Art and its early leaders, ARC is choosing to celebrate the gallery's feminist history by examining what else Feminist Art is.  That is, rather than reducing feminism's meaning to one familiar artist or era, ARC would like to explore what feminist art was, what it has come to be, and where it is going.   In mounting this juried group exhibition, ARC's goal is not to deride or disown dominant associations or previous generations. Our impulse is additive and exploratory rather than denunciatory. ARC hopes to uncover other ways feminism has been, or will be, made visible particularly in regard to the contemporary art scene. To that end, ARC invites submissions that engage, but are not limited to, the following topics:  -The ideals of feminism - what does feminism mean today? What      does it mean to you?  -Feminist aesthetics -- what does feminism look like and sound like?  -Feminism's history and viability in museums, galleries and other  arts institutions  -The many ways feminism has been misrepresented or dismissed  -Feminism's presence in contemporary society and why it is still  needed  -Feminism's futures-Feminism's racial, gender, sexual and/or  reproductive politics-Temporalities of feminism  -Feminism in popular culture / Celebrity Feminists While this exhibit will be in Chicago, ARC is searching for work from anyone interested in this subject, national or international, all genders.  All media considered.   PROSPECTUS AND ONLINE APPLICATION FORM