SUBVERSIVE STITCHING: Feminist Artists with a Needle

Deadline: October 16, 2009 (RECEIVE)

SUBVERSIVE STITCHING: Feminist Artists with a Needle
Through the Flower
Belen, NM
January 23, 2010 - May 31, 2010


Call for art in all needlework and textile media from artists' who reside in New Mexico. Works submitted should include a focus on gender. One winner will be awarded a $500 cash prize.

Please submit images of three works with at least one detail of each piece and one page double spaced artist statement. Entry fee $25.00

Through the Flower in Belen, New Mexico and on line at www.throughtheflower.org.

Notice of inclusion: November 20, 2009

Please contact Through the Flower for entry form at 505.864.4080 or

Download Entry Form.


Juror:Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago's legacy as an artist is inseparable from her pioneering role in Feminist art and education. The Dinner Party, The Birth Project and the Holocaust Project, are monumental collaborative works which explored her deepening feminist vision.

Juror: Laura Addison
Laura Addison is the curator of contemporary art at the New Mexico Museum of Art, a position she has held since 2001. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an M.A. from University of New Mexico, where one of her areas of focus was the confluence of gender, performance and revolution.

Please contact Through the Flower for entry form at 505.864.4080 or visit the Feminist art section at www.throughtheflower.org to download application.

Through the Flower is a non-profit Feminist art organization founded by Judy Chicago in 1978. Our mission is to educate a broad public about the importance of art and its power in countering the erasure of women's achievements.