05/16/2026
🔥🇺🇸 We’re 2 days out from our “𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆” Quarterly Member Exhibition deadline! 🔥🇺🇸
The DVAA Exhibition Committee is looking to feature work that fits into at least one of these suggested categories:
⭐️ Works that feature iconic national symbols, monuments, pivotal historic events, or influential figures. These historical visual anchors can serve as points of entry into deeper conversations about national identity and memory.
DVAA recognizes that we are living through a period of profound social, political, and cultural tension. As such, we encourage submissions that move beyond commemoration and instead interrogate the present moment. What does freedom mean in today’s United States? Who has access to it, and who remains excluded? Where do we see fractures in the democratic system, and how do those fractures manifest in daily life?
We also ask artists to imagine the future. Within the next 250 years, what might a more equitable, inclusive, and fully realized democracy or alternative political system look like? Show us work that articulates or even shapes your vision. Utopian, speculative, and aspirational works are encouraged, offering space to envision a more perfect nation.
We welcome work that grapples with these questions in nuanced and personal ways—whether through expressions of disillusionment, resistance, hope, or ambiguity. DVAA aims to create a space for dialogue through this exhibit. One that acknowledges the complexity of the American experience, expressed through the work of our artist community.
Artwork featured is “Rally” by Kathleen Beausoleil, “Digital Collage” by Jay Edward Roth, “Pact,” by Viola Bordón, “The Animals Run Away,” by Judith K Brodsky, and “Our World Apologies to the Innocents,” by Gary Grissom.
Submit at davinciartalliance.org/dvaa-opportunities
