Softer Lands

Please submit your fibrous representational or abstract landscapes to Side Rail Collective for inclusion in softer lands. Softer lands is a show centered around the depiction of our landscape in textiles. The Artwork should speak to our relationship to the land and invoke a feeling or need for a caring relationship to the lands we live on as we struggle with the realities of human/ capitalist tendencies and the danger of climate change. Artists are encouraged to detail how their chosen materials or techniques such as, mending, dyeing, layering, and repurposing reflect the themes of ecological memory, environmental repair, slow stewardship, or resistance to fast consumption.

To be considered please only submit work that is:

• - Completed or close to completion at 80%

• - It comprises 80% or more of textile materials such as fabric, paper, thread, etc.

• - Abstract or representational

• - Depicts the whole or part of a landscape

• - 2D or 3D

Higher consideration will be given to work that is:

• - Made in part with sustainable materials or techniques

• - Comprises of more than 80% textile materials

• - Under 48” (over this size is more competitive as we have limited space for large works)

• - Made by PNW Artists and able to be dropped off for installation.

Important to note:

• - Free to Submit

• - Submit by February 20th

• - $30 (one time per artist) Hanging Fee is paid only by accepted artist – Fee Assistance & Volunteer Information

• - No commission is taken by the Gallery, Artist are paid directly via given digital payment method

• - Only submitted art will be considered (no swapping)

• - Exhibit will run from April 4th through May 30th

Please email Essa Baird at SideRailCollective@gmail.com with any questions.