OPEN CALL
for
GLORIOUS MUTUALISM
Glorious Mutualism:
An exploration of regenerative biodiversity:
Plant/animal/human
Accepting all traditional 2D and 3D materials including recycled and natural materials.
Submission deadline April 1, 2020.
1 - 3 images or written proposal sent to Erika Schmidt at elschmidt1@vermontel.net
Art exhibit runs: May 1- June 14
Opening Reception Saturday, May 9, time tba
Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, 145 E. Main Street, Poultney VT
Artists are invited to submit work that explores glorious mutualism through personal experience, observation or mere curiosity. To consider is how one encounters or has an inner sense of relationship to or interdependence with particular plants, animals and /or the land.
Glorious mutualism explores the world of regenerative biodiversity to include the vast, yet often hidden, interrelationships between plants, animals, and humans. Glorious mutualism challenges our ideas of what an individual is, what an organism is, where each being begins and ends.
Biodiversity ecologist, Suzanne Simard, conducted research on what we cannot easily see, specifically the synergies, and complexities of our natural world. In her book “Hidden Life of Trees” Simard shows how trees use a network of soil fungi to communicate their needs and aid neighboring plants. Her tested theories show that trees and forests and fungi and mosses are in collaboration and that there is a secret language between them.
Michael Pollan, author of “The botany of desire” wrote about the brilliant symbiotic relationship between plants and humans. Through his research he revealed how the apple, the tulip, the potato and cannabis evolved with humans over time through mutual attraction and survival.
Explorer and author, Robert MacFarlane speaks to glorious mutualism in this way… “lichen and fungi annihilate our categories of gender. They reshape our ideas of community and cooperation. They screw up our hereditary model of evolutionary descent.
They utterly liquidate our notions of time.”
Glorious Mutualism
SHOW CHECKLIST
April 1: Deadline for submissions: 1-3 images or written proposal sent to elschmidt1@vermontel.net
April 8: Notification of accepted work(s)
April 25 and 26: Drop off work to SVA gallery 12:00 - 4:00 pm - we are still planning to be open to accept works.
Check back here the day before, Friday April 24th for an updated message.
Label artwork w/ name, title, medium, year and price
May 9: Opening Reception time tba
June 15: 1:00 - 5:00 pm: pick up work (or by appointment)
For info or questions contact Erika Schmidt at elschmidt1@vermontel.net
Image: Erika Schmidt, mixed media
An exploration of regenerative biodiversity:
Plant/animal/human
Accepting all traditional 2D and 3D materials including recycled and natural materials.
Submission deadline April 1, 2020.
1 - 3 images or written proposal sent to Erika Schmidt at elschmidt1@vermontel.net
Art exhibit runs: May 1- June 14
Opening Reception Saturday, May 9, time tba
Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, 145 E. Main Street, Poultney VT
Artists are invited to submit work that explores glorious mutualism through personal experience, observation or mere curiosity. To consider is how one encounters or has an inner sense of relationship to or interdependence with particular plants, animals and /or the land.
Glorious mutualism explores the world of regenerative biodiversity to include the vast, yet often hidden, interrelationships between plants, animals, and humans. Glorious mutualism challenges our ideas of what an individual is, what an organism is, where each being begins and ends.
Biodiversity ecologist, Suzanne Simard, conducted research on what we cannot easily see, specifically the synergies, and complexities of our natural world. In her book “Hidden Life of Trees” Simard shows how trees use a network of soil fungi to communicate their needs and aid neighboring plants. Her tested theories show that trees and forests and fungi and mosses are in collaboration and that there is a secret language between them.
Michael Pollan, author of “The botany of desire” wrote about the brilliant symbiotic relationship between plants and humans. Through his research he revealed how the apple, the tulip, the potato and cannabis evolved with humans over time through mutual attraction and survival.
Explorer and author, Robert MacFarlane speaks to glorious mutualism in this way… “lichen and fungi annihilate our categories of gender. They reshape our ideas of community and cooperation. They screw up our hereditary model of evolutionary descent.
They utterly liquidate our notions of time.”
Glorious Mutualism
SHOW CHECKLIST
April 1: Deadline for submissions: 1-3 images or written proposal sent to elschmidt1@vermontel.net
April 8: Notification of accepted work(s)
April 25 and 26: Drop off work to SVA gallery 12:00 - 4:00 pm - we are still planning to be open to accept works.
Check back here the day before, Friday April 24th for an updated message.
Label artwork w/ name, title, medium, year and price
May 9: Opening Reception time tba
June 15: 1:00 - 5:00 pm: pick up work (or by appointment)
For info or questions contact Erika Schmidt at elschmidt1@vermontel.net
Image: Erika Schmidt, mixed media