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SUMMARY:Call for Art: Body Sovereignty
DESCRIPTION:Call for Art: Body Sovereignty \nCurator: Danni O’Brien \nApplication Deadline: Saturday\, April 18\, 2026 \nThe body has always been contested territory. Legislated\, pathologized\, fetishized\, disciplined — the body and its desires have rarely been left in peace\, let alone in the control of the people who inhabit them.\nBody Sovereignty is an exhibition about who owns our body\, its expression and its sexuality.\nARC Gallery invites artists working across all media to submit work that claims for itself a radical ownership over sexuality\, desire\, and bodily identity. We are interested in art that refuses to be tamed — work that finds the erotic in the accidental\, the absurd\, the domestic\, and the discarded. Work that borrows the visual language of instruction and mechanism only to subvert it. Work that is bold in its irreverence\, polymorphic in its affect\, and unafraid to blur lines between innocence and perversion\, function and fantasy\, the handmade and the found.\nWe are drawn to art that treats the body not as subject matter but as site of survival — art assembled from cultural cast-offs\, scavenged and repurposed into something fantastical and alive. Art that is cheeky and meditative in equal measure. That takes months to resolve what was gathered intuitively. That arrives slowly at something unsettling and true.\nBody Sovereignty is not about shock. It is about depth of feeling — about understanding\, as Audre Lorde wrote\, that the erotic is a measure of our most expansive sense of self. \nWe Welcome Work That: \n\n\nClaims ownership over desire\, sexuality\, and gender on one’s own terms \n\n\nPlays at the intersection of the bodily\, the mechanical\, and the domestic \n\n\nTransforms everyday materials into something visceral and alive \n\n\nExplores queer identity\, conspicuous consumption\, and bodily survival through a fantastical or absurdist lens \n\n\nEngages the erotic through abstraction\, humor\, tenderness\, or the uncanny — not necessarily through explicit imagery \n\n\nRefuses easy categorization and sits comfortably at the edge of innocence and perversion\, play and politics \n\n\nMedia \n\n\nAll media welcome\, including sculpture\, assemblage\, ceramics\, collage\, painting\, drawing\, fiber arts\, printmaking\, papermaking\, video\, and installation. We are especially excited by hybrid works and interdisciplinary practices. \n\n\nDeadline for Submission of Applications: Saturday\, April 18 2026 at 11:59pm CST \n\n\nNotification of Acceptance: By email on May 6\, 2026 \n\n\nDelivery of work to ARC: Thursday & Friday May 28 & May 29\, 2026\, 2-6pm; Saturday\, May 30\, 12-4pm \n\n\nPick-Up Work at Gallery: Saturday\, June 27\, 2026\, 2:30-4pm \n\n\nShipped Work Return Date: First two weeks of July (determined by the delivery method) \n\n\n*Pre-Paid FedEx or UPS return label is required \n\n\n*Do not use the U.S. Postal Service \n\n\nAbout the Curator: Danni O’Brien \nDanni O’Brien (she/they) is a queer\, interdisciplinary artist based outside Baltimore\, MD. Through scavenging and collecting\, O’Brien builds enigmatic sculptures and reliefs from found objects\, vintage patent diagrams\, handmade paper pulp\, ceramics\, and the cast-offs of consumer culture. Her work grapples with queer identity\, dystopian survival\, and conspicuous consumption — playful and absurd on the surface\, deeply meditative underneath. O’Brien has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington\, Asya Geisberg Gallery\, Hamiltonian Gallery\, and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art\, and has held residencies with The Wassaic Project\, Baltimore Clayworks\, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency\, Byrdcliffe Colony\, and Stove Works\, among others. She is the recipient of Individual Artist Grants from the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development and the Maryland State Arts Council. \nVisit Dani @ www.danielleobrienart.com \nOpening Reception\, Friday\, June 5th\, 5:00-8:00pm\n\n\nExhibition dates: June 5-26\, 2026 \n\n\nGallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm\, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm \n\n\nThis program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
URL:https://thefeministartproject.org/event/call-for-art-body-sovereignty/
LOCATION:ARC Gallery\, 1463 W Chicago Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60642\, United States
CATEGORIES:Call for Applications/Residency,Exhibition
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