Internet Routes & Roots Virtual Exhibition
Opportunity Description
U.S. National Deadline: April 9, 2026 – Routes & Roots explores immigration as both movement and making: leaving, arriving, adapting, and becoming. “Routes” can be a border crossing, a flight path, a train line, a street walked in fear or hope, a digital connection to people left behind. “Roots” can be family, language, food, faith, memory, land, or the chosen communities that help us survive.
We invite women and non-binary artists to submit work that reflects on immigration and migration in all their complexity: voluntary and forced movement, diaspora, refuge, exile, resettlement, documentation and bureaucracy, belonging and unbelonging, intergenerational stories, cultural hybridity, cultural assimilation, and the ways identity shifts across places and time. Work may be intimate or political, literal or metaphorical—personal testimony, collective history, imagined futures.
Exhibition Dates: May 18, 2026 – June 30, 2026.
ELIGIBILITY
All work must be the sole creation of the submitting artist. Collaborative works are accepted provided all artists meet eligibility criteria and are properly credited. All work must address the exhibition theme. A brief artist statement is required with your submission.
JUROR
Eliana Miranda is a visual artist who currently lives in Dallas, TX. In 2010, she completed her BA from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She obtained her MA in 2012 and an MFA in 2015 from the University of Dallas. She’s been in numerous exhibitions including Latino Americans 500 Years of History at the Idaho State University, Contemporaneous Commentary: Voices in the Current Sociopolitical Atmosphere at the Wichita State University, Intersections at the Texas Woman’s University, and the AMOA Biennial 600: Justice• Equality• Race• Identity at the Amarillo Museum of Art. She was one of the selected artists for the virtual residency with the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, TX., and the 2022 Texas Vignette. Recently, she was selected as one of the Cohort 5 studio artists at the Cedars Union residency in Dallas. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Dallas Observer, KERA, and D Magazine.
Miranda’s work is an exploration of current human migration issues. She investigates environmental and socio/political impact of the displacement of people.
ENTRY FEE
$20 Entry. Each submission may include 1 to 3 artworks. WMG offers reduced fees/ waivers to those with need.
To acknowledge the historic inequities of wealth distribution, they are exclusively reserved for ALAANA/BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+. Factors that result in an approved application include financial instability or low income status, student or recent graduate status, identification as ALAANA/BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+, or a demonstrated need otherwise
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Notification: April 22, 2026.
SALES
Work may be offered for sale or listed as Not for Sale (NFS). If the gallery is contacted by a potential buyer on our website, we will facilitate by directing them to the artist’s provided contact information
About:
Woman Made Gallery is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization founded in 1992. Its goal is to cultivate, promote and support the work of female-identified artists by providing exhibition opportunities, professional development, and public programs that invite discussion about what feminism means today. More than 8,000 women artists have exhibited their work since WMG was established. WMG welcomes the participation of people of all gender expressions and orientations as artists and program participants, members and supporters.
Woman Made Gallery
2150 S Canalport #4A-3
Chicago, IL 60608
t: (312)-738-0400
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