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Call for Art: Our Voices Carry Weight

WCADC invites local womenx artists from MD, DC, and VA to use their visual voice to highlight social wrongs, political topics, and pay homage to our literary, musical, and other female icons of yesterday and today.

Call for Art: Our Voices Carry Weight
Call for Art: Our Voices Carry Weight

Time & Location

Nov 01, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT – Jan 02, 2023, 11:59 PM EST

Bohrer Park, City of Gaithersburg, MD, 506 S Frederick Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA

About the Event

WCADC invites local womenx artists from the MD, DC, and VA areas to use their visual voice to highlight social wrongs, and political topics and pay homage to our literary, musical, and other female icons of yesterday and today.

Link to Poetry call

Exhibit: 2/3/2023-04/23/2023

Bohrer Park

Gaithersburg, MD

Juror Christina Massey: https://cmasseyart.com

Christina Massey is a mixed media artist using repurposed materials in her colorful organic abstractions based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has won multiple awards including an FST StudioProject Fund Grant 2019, Brooklyn Arts Fund Grants 2022 & 2019, SIP Fellowship at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop 2017, and Puffin Foundation Grant 2018. Massey’s work is in the collections of the Janet Turner Museum, Art Bank Collection in DC, Bank of America Collection in Miami, Credit Suisse, and multiple private collections. Her work has been shown extensively at galleries and museums in the NY metropolitan region and has been featured in fairs such as the 14C Art Fair and Springbreak Art Show. 

Deadline to enter: December 10, 2023

$20 members

$30 non-members

Art Drop off: January 30, 2023, 9:30 – 11:30 am

Artwork Installation by Membership: January 30, 2023, 12 – 4 pm

Artist’s Reception: TBD

Artwork pick-up: April 24, 2023 9:30 – 11:30 am

Open to all womxn artists from the dmv

No shipped work accepted, all work must be dropped off

Virtual Women's History panel program tbd in partnership with the city of Gaithersburg and WCADC

No violent, sexual or explicit content is allowed, this is a family-friendly venue

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