PVAC Call for Artists

Looking for Entries for Exhibit ‘Immigration: Borders, Boundaries, Beginnings’

Deadline for Entry: December 18, 2015 • Exhibit Dates: March 3-April 17, 2016

Pajaro Valley Arts Council (PVAC) invites your participation in an exhibit which explores the complex issues surrounding immigration. We are looking for art submissions in all media, which consider stories of leaving and arriving: the stories of immigration. Subjects could include:

• Personal family stories
• What immigrants take with them and what they leave behind
• Effects of immigration on the individual
• Effects on the countries/families left behind
• Effects on the new communities: how are immigrants perceived, received, integrated?
• Assimilation/ Americanization: how do people start over and build community in a new country and culture?
• Historical impacts of social and cultural migration
• Experiences upon arrival including language, living conditions and work
• What does prejudice/classism look, sound, and feel like?
• Implications of status (illegal, alien, naturalized, citizenship)

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Sculpture IS: 2016
In the Gallery & In the Garden

Deadline for entry is February 12, 2016 • Exhibit Dates: May 4-June 19, 2016

PVAC is pleased to invite you to participate and to create new work for our tenth anniversary commemorative exhibit. Sculpture IS: 2016 will be shown in two venues; “In the Gallery” at PVAC, and “In the Garden” at Sierra Azul Nursery & Gardens.

The gallery exhibit will take place May 4-June 19, 2016 and the garden event will take place June 1-October 31, 2016.  There are two separate entry forms, and you may choose to be in one or both. We will be publishing an exhibit catalog featuring the artists and sculpture in both shows.

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The Pajaro Valley Gallery 37 Sudden Street Watsonville, California 95076. Tel # 831.722.3062. Website: www.pajarovalley artscouncil.org

Pajaro Valley Gallery Hours Wednesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission — Wheelchair accessible