9MusesArtCenter would like to invite artists to submit for Chasing Equity; an interrogation of inequality, struggle, and the power dynamics that maintain stratification and inequity.

Chasing Equity’s focus is to address institutional disadvantages for BIPOC populations, but we are particularly interested in engaging topics that are intersectional as well, such as examining Black and Brown experiences that intersect with LGBTQ+, gendered, and/or disability. Artwork can confront how inequity is perpetuated, and/or ways to address inequity that would resort in meaningful, paradigm-shifting change.
Artists are invited to examine institutional and social structures that contribute to and codify racial inequity.

We ask that artists create new visions and imagined spaces that strive for equity. Artists should reflect on their personal relationship to equity and inequity. We would like artwork that inspires a drive for change and progress. While we are not opposed to works that are centered on historical roots of inequity or change, we would like artists to consider how inequity exists in the here and now. We welcome works that have personal examinations on how artists themselves have knowingly or unknowingly perpetuated structural inequity and confront these histories. We would like works that
challenge the self and the viewer in their complicit support of racist structures. Artwork can be celebratory of existing progress but should be critical of its shortcomings. We welcome works that emphasize truth through discomfort over comforting lies of an inevitable march towards equality.

Chasing Equity is about pursuing the personal within the structural, and how those narratives are necessary to challenge the status quo.