Deadline: 3-Jan-22
The California Humanities has announced an open call for artworks and projects for the upcoming round of programming “The Land of Milk and Honey”.
This program will inaugurate in August 2022 and continue throughout 2023 and will be held at multiple arts institutions in California and Mexico.
By focusing on concepts of Agriculture, the MB seeks dynamic proposals that navigate discourses and notions around labor, food (in)security, environmental impacts, land use, farming practices, and food justice in the binational region of California and Baja California.
Subjects of particular interest include the Bracero Program, reflections on an (im)migrant labor force, cultural culinary traditions, the ecologies of borders, agriculture’s climate impacts, and Indigenous land stewardship.
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to creatives, collectives, and organizations who live, work, and/or have a close relationship to California and Mexico, the MexiCali Biennial takes a non-traditional approach to the selection of artworks by primarily inviting artists through an open call system.
- Regional artists are invited to submit proposals and works will be selected based on the following criteria: excellence of their proposed works, with special interest placed upon collaboration with emerging, self-taught, and under-represented communities and individuals, creating an inclusive roster of artists and collectives that may not be present in more traditional biennial models.
- The selection committee is interested in artist concepts that broaden ideas and notions of “borders” and “borderlands” that expand beyond the contemporary perceptions of political divisory geographic lines, allowing for the inclusion of concepts that augment the understanding of a construct that is in constant flux.
For more information, visit https://calhum.org/and-of-milk-and-honey-open-call/