ARC Gallery

Call for Art: Ancestral Futures
Curator: Donté K. Hayes
Deadline: November 23, 2025
FIND OUT MORE & APPLY HERE: https://www.arcgallery.org/calls-for-entry-archive/call-for-entries-ancestral-futures

What does it mean to be a good future ancestor? How might today’s personal, cultural, social, and or environmental actions become legacies for those who come after us? Ancestral Futures invites artists to reflect on these questions through their creative practice. This juried exhibition, curated by artist and ceramicist Donté K. Hayes, seeks works that meditate on wisdom, intentionality, and the responsibility of shaping a world that extends beyond ourselves.

We invite artists of all backgrounds and mediums to submit artwork that explores the concept of the future ancestor though art. Submissions can include painting, drawing, photography, digital art, sculpture, mixed media, textiles, ceramics, and video. We encourage artists to draw on personal experiences and observations in creating their work. We hope to showcase a range of perspectives and styles that do service to the complex and multifaceted nature of this topic. Through this call for art, we hope to shine a light on the ethics of long-term thinking—what The Good Ancestor author Roman Krznaric calls “deep-time humility.”

FIND OUT MORE & APPLY HERE: https://www.arcgallery.org/calls-for-entry-archive/call-for-entries-ancestral-futures