Call for visual art and poems from artists on both sides of the prison walls
This year’s theme:
This Is Me
How can art help you express the complex parts of yourself, your world, and your experience? How does our unjust carceral system impact you? How can justice transform the way we see ourselves and others?
Let’s Get Free invites artists and poets to create work that represents you. This year’s theme was suggested by Sheená King, who is on our prison advisory board. Our committee chose this theme because knowing each other, and letting ourselves be known, is part of how we build and strengthen our movements.
The theme is expansive; it can be interpreted many different ways. Whether you choose a realistic, surreal, abstract, or other approach, this year’s art show focuses on space for sharing ourselves with each other. “Let’s Get Free” is a call to all of us, to get free together. Because no one is free until all of us are free.
Let’s Get Free’s 7th Art Show is a fundraiser. By submitting art or poems to the show you are consenting for your art to be auctioned and sold to raise money to support Let’s Get Free. By submitting artwork and poems you are consenting to allow us to post and use your artwork to raise awareness on different platforms. We will credit you and share any posts we make with you! Any art that is not auctioned will be saved and sold in our “cash and carry” store the following year.
This is a contest. This year we are hosting a contest solely for artists and poets in prison. We consider all art from people outside of prison an offering of solidarity in support of the movement to end mass incarceration.
Submission deadline:
August 1, 2024
The show will open in November of 2024 at the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
