🌱 CALL FOR ARTISTS SOIL Art Exhibition – DEADLINE Nov 22
🌱 CALL FOR ARTISTS SOIL Art Exhibition – DEADLINE Nov 22
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🌱 SOIL Art Exhibition CALL FOR ARTISTS –
SOIL: Where the Light Enters is a multidisciplinary art exhibition on transformation, healing, and rebirth
Presented by What’s Your Elephant™
Exhibition Dates: December 19, 2025 – February 2026
Location: 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
DEADLINE: Saturday, November 22, 2025 (11:59PM EST)
About the Exhibition
Inspired by the Rumi quote, “The wound is the place where the light enters,” SOIL: Where the Light Enters explores transformation, healing, and rebirth through art-making, storytelling, and creative expression.
Curated by Niki Lopez, artist and founder of What’s Your Elephant™, this exhibition invites artists to reflect on how our personal and collective experiences — the pain, memory, and growth we cultivate — become fertile ground for transformation.
Presented by What’s Your Elephant™, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that uses the arts to address the unspoken, this exhibition continues the organization’s mission to create safe, creative spaces for dialogue, mindfulness, mental health advocacy, and connection.
Submission Details:
- Deadline for entry: Saturday, November 22, 2025; 11:19 PM EST
- Selection Notification: Saturday, December 6, 2025
- Installation dates: TBA
- Opening night: Friday, December 19; 6-9 PM
- Exhibition Closes: February 2026 (exact date TBA)
- Location: Fort Lauderdale, 1310 Gallery
Open to: All mediums 2D work such as paintings, mixed-media, collages, fiber, digital and photography. Interactive & installation pieces are highly considered.Select video works and sculptures will be considered.
ALL WORK MUST BE ORIGINAL WORK & HANG READY
Fees
There is no mandatory fee to submit. However, a $20 suggested donation is encouraged to help offset exhibition and production costs. Donations can be made via WhatsYourElephant.org/donate.
The submitted artwork should fit or complement the theme: SOIL: Where the Light Enters
Artwork should explore ideas of transformation, healing, and rebirth — reflecting the ways we grow through what we go through. Submissions may interpret the theme through personal, cultural, emotional, or spiritual lenses, examining how experiences, memory, mindfulness, and resilience can become fertile ground for creativity, connection, and mental wellness.
For details on this exhibition & program, go to: https://whatsyourelephant.org/wye_soil
