Call for Indigenous artists! Deadline Jan. 31

Travois is hosting a juried visual art exhibition series featuring North American Indigenous artists at our headquarters in the Crossroads Art District in Kansas City, MO.

Indigenous artists, including American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiians, working in 2D and 3D are encouraged to apply through Friday, Jan. 31, 2019 here: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=6131  

Travois will provide a $2,500 honorarium for each artist selected by the Travois First Friday jury and does not take any commission from artists’ sales.

The exhibition call is open to North American Indigenous artists — from the United States (American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians); Canada (First Nations people, Inuit, Métis or citizens of a Canadian-recognized tribe); and Mexico (Indigenous people of Mexico). Established and emerging artists are encouraged to participate. Artists working in 2D and 3D works are eligible. Each applying artist is asked to submit between 12 and 20 artworks for the jury’s consideration. The fee to apply is $15. The jury will select up to six artists.

Jurors for the series include:

• Gina Adams (Ojibwa-Lakota descent), contemporary hybrid artist and faculty at Naropa University
• Norman Akers (Osage Nation), artist and associate professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Kansas
• Rachael Cozad, Rachael Cozad Fine Art, and former director of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Madison Group Fine Art Appraisals
• Thomas Farris (Otoe-Missouria, Cherokee), manager of Exhibit C Gallery, owned by Chickasaw Nation
• Bruce Hartman, executive director of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
• Sherry Leedy, artist and owner of Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
• America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), artist and publishing editor of First American Art Magazine
• Jami Powell (Osage Nation), associate curator of Native American art at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art
• Gaylord Torrence, senior curator of American Indian art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

More information about the juried exhibition series can be found at travois.com/news-events/first-fridays/.