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HOW TO SUBMIT ART TO OUR ART GALLERY SHOWS:

Brown and Black Artists Together

This art show is for artists who are black and/or brown. Welcome!

Use our email address to request guidelines to enter the show.

Art must be fully display ready with a wire on the back for hanging.

Your piece must be within the size limitation: under 30 inches in each direction.

This must be an original work by yourself. Please sign your art on the front.

Write only your name and title of the art on the back.

We are especially interested in art that is about social justice issues.

*Artist supplies the gallery with agreed upon art for agreed upon time period. Discuss with curator!

Artist may not remove any piece of art unless the gallery has agreed to it, such as- when the show is over. Payments for art in the gallery is to be paid to URBAN ART RETREAT directly, not to artist. Artist receives payment at end of art show from gallery. Any art sold from the gallery during the period of time artist’s works are in gallery – commission goes to CUARC. 30% to non-profit CUARC and 70% to artist.

*Create an inventory sheet listing each piece by title, size, color, subject matter, and selling price or NFS. Make sure artist’s name, address, email address, and phone # are on the top of inventory sheet. Make 2 copies, one for artist and one for gallery, we both sign and your copy is receipt of having delivered art at this gallery. Use receipt when you pick up your art at end of show.

*Do not write anything on back of your art other than your name and title of the piece. Make sure to sign piece on the front. Art should be original and done by artist. (exception- prints) Gallery prefers wall art to be framed and with a wire on the back 1/3 down from top. If hook is used, prefer only one hook in dead center on back.

*Artist is responsible for getting art to and from the gallery. Artist pays any fees necessary to transport art to & from the gallery. Art gallery will take good care of art while it is in the possession of art gallery. Gallery will let artist know of any art receptions or special dates when gallery will have an event. Artist is totally responsible for picking up art on time. Art may be picked up at 4 p.m. the day of art show closing and within 3 days of the closing by appt. Beginning the 4^th day, the artist agrees to pay a $10 fee each day the art is not picked up.

It is the responsibility of the Artist to make arrangements to have their art picked up for delivery at end of show. Artist should communicate with gallery when the pick up date will be.

*Gallery may post images of works by this artist on gallery website when the artist supplies images via email. [only excellent images will be posted]

*Gallery encourages artists to do whatever they can to gain exposure and get people to the gallery shows. Artist should send personal invitations to friends, family, and supporters to attend his/her show. The personal touch of asking for their support can be very effective. Make a point of asking people to attend, not to purchase art- will often get them there!

“She Didn’t Make It Home After School ” piece by Dianna C. Long

Liz Long art gallery at Urban Art Retreat 1957 S. Spaulding Ave. Chicago, Il.60623

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Artists From Anywhere but USA

INTERNATIONAL ART SHOW: Artists From Anywhere but USA

This international artists show takes place in April 11 – May 30, 2025 at Liz Long Gallery at Urban Art Retreat 1957 S. Spaulding ave. Artists who live in countries other than the United States are involved in the international artists show. Artists submit art on any topic or theme, we encourage art about social justice issues.

The show will be maintained on our website after the gallery show comes down.

Revolution by Mohammad Afif Abdurrahman of Indonesia.

How Animal Agriculture Impacts the Environment: Call to artists/writers

Responding to the question- How we can can use art to protest, process, and object to How Animal Agriculture Impacts the Environment ?—this project including writing, art exhibit, documentary, and book. It will focus on the art making and writing of works that engage this difficult topic. We will consider the function of art & writing to document, bear witness, and to show how the breeding of animals, their rearing, killing, packaging, transportation; growing animals to kill and eat instead of growing plants to eat has impacted the earth/environment, & climate change. Along with offering written works and art, that take up the subject, we will create a documentary, create a book from the writings and art, and post our outcome online to show our discussion of the ethics of representation, and what it means to write about this violence and trauma, and neglect & damage of the earth. We will focus on the craft of writing and art, and intertextuality which will engage viewers in responding both to the works of art in the exhibition and the writings we will combine in the book and film with spoken word.

BACKGROUND for “Animal Agriculture Impact on the Environment” Art Show & Writings Event

COP26- the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow – is now underway, with a strong sense that we are reaching a point of no return when it comes to halting climate emissions.

Nations that signed up to the 1992 United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) pledged to reduce emissions and take action to decrease critical temperature rises. And yet, since then, we’ve seen a steady rise in emissions, in temperature, and increasingly frequent weather anomalies, from flooding to drought, to wildfires to melting permafrost.

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa describes the Glasgow Summit as “a credibility test for global efforts to address climate change” while calling on nations to show “bold and courageous climate leadership.”There’s little that’s bold or courageous about making piecemeal tweaks to pollution-spewing fossil fuel facilities. There’s nothing courageous about flying into Glasgow, offsetting personal emissions to assuage your conscience.

The elephant in the (conference) room:

Every day, we are being told to take all sorts of actions, like not owning or using fossil-fuel powered vehicles, switching to local produce, consuming less and conserving water. But the elephant in the COP26 conference suites is that there is simply not enough dialogue around consuming less meat and dairy.

Governments and bold leaders need to be introducing policies, new regulations and dietary guidelines to bring about a reduction in the consumption of animals. At the very least they could stop subsidizing the meat and dairy sectors who right now are being paid to pollute.

As with fossil fuel, industry behemoths dominate. The five largest meat and dairy firms produce more annual emissions than big oil. Based in just five economic areas, Brazil, the USA, China, Japan and the European Union, action on the part of just five government entities could deal with the majority of the problem.

We would like to include art work images in a book we will create of art from the show and writings by those who submit written poems, essays, and narratives on the topic. We also would like to create an online “documentary” of the show including art images and written works to be on view for those who are interested in the topic, and to see what we put together on this subject. We hope to make available a book for each participant, and to people who want to be educated on the subject of how Animal Agriculture Impacts the Environment – to learn this through art and the written word. Regarding the proceeds from the sale of books: anything over recovering the cost of printing and publishing the books will go to an organization working toward stopping Animal Agriculture and therefore helping to save our environment and animals. Any concerns and questions artists and writers may have can be addressed to the curator and project organizer, Dianna C. Long.

Incarceration Affect on Families and Communi

The emphasis on the punitive and stigmatizing aspects of incarceration, which has resulted in the further literal and psychological isolation of prison from the surrounding community, compromised prison visitation programs and the already scarce resources that had been used to maintain ties between prisoners and their families and the outside world. Support services to facilitate the transition from prison to the free world environments to which prisoners were returned were undermined at precisely the moment they needed to be enhanced. Increased sentence length and a greatly expanded scope of incarceration resulted in prisoners experiencing the psychological strains of imprisonment for longer periods of time, many persons being caught in the web of incarceration who ordinarily would not have been (e.g., drug offenders), and the social costs of incarceration becoming increasingly concentrated in minority communities (because of differential enforcement and sentencing policies).

Punitive policing and sentencing policies have had a disproportionate impact on communities of color. While people of color comprise 37% of the U.S. population, they represent 67% of the prison population. African Americans are more likely to be arrested, convicted, and incarcerated than similarly situated white Americans (Ghandnoosh, 2015). Among young African American males, one in three will spend some time incarcerated during his lifetime (Trends, 2017). While greater involvement in certain crimes explains some of the racial and ethnic disparity, issues of biased enforcement practices, inadequate legal defense resources, and structural racism are also key factors (Ghandnoosh, 2015).

Black students represent 31% of school-related arrests. Black students are suspended and expelled 3 times more than white students. Students suspended or expelled for a discretionary violation are nearly 3 times more likely to be in contact with the juvenile justice system the following year.

Studies report numerous negative outcomes for children as a consequence of parental incarceration, ranging from depression and anxiety to aggression and delinquency depending on circumstances such as the child’s age and the length of a parent’s incarceration (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2015). Additional evidence points to children’s extreme trauma resulting from the experience of parental arrest.

In the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale, there is disagreement as to how many residents have been incarcerated at some time in their lives. It has been suggested that from 47% to 85 % of families have had someone in their family imprisoned at sometime. Imagine the effect on the children, the families, the school system, the neighborhood, and the self-esteem and attitude of this community.

Call to Artists:

name of show/project: Incarceration Affect on Families and Community

Children Separated from their Parents by Cat Roberts

We are accepting art works, size limited to 30 inches(ceramics, fiber, sculpture, wall art), written words (poems, essays, spoken word- all to be written and spoken & video taped)

Each artist will speak on tape about their art, or will read their words. We will use the recordings in our documentary. We will also use images of the art in the show in the documentary. Art from the show and writings from the project will be used in the book.

Send images of art or samples of writing about topic now: email to contact@urbanartretreat.com

how to prepare art to be sent: If the art is to be hung on the wall it must have a wire on the back across from side to side about ¼ down from the top. We prefer this method as opposed to others. Make sure to wrap all art carefully and protect it from harm.

how to prepare words to be sent: Make sure you have your work proofread. Make a videotape of you reading your work. Writings will be reproduced and accumulated in a booklet for people to read in the art gallery.

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September 19 Social Justice Stage : performances, spoken word, live art painting, vendors & more! contact@urbanartretreat.com