Want to connect with your community and display your artwork?

The Writers Place, seeks submissions from Latino artists working in more than one creative medium for a Latino Writers as Artists: Day of the Dead and Spiritually-Centered Celebration exhibition at the Writers Place.

Have you made any work celebrating the Day of the Dead or your Latino heritage/spirituality that might be appropriate for a Day of the Dead exhibit?

Do you write a journal and paint with oils? Watercolor and write poetry? Do you draw or sculpt and write short stories? Do you make ceramics and write detective novels (or illustrate them)? Do they ever mix together accidently, or on purpose? Is your visual or musical work heavily influenced by a particular writer? If you happen to be a musician who also creates with poetry, or are a spoken word poet who also sings, the exhibition will feature all aspects, genres and media.

The exhibition and performance will open with a reception on Saturday, October 13, from 6-9 pm at The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111. Those artists chosen to participate in the October event may also be invited to participate in a second annual event, A Celebration of the Day of the Dead, on Friday, November 2, at 7:00 pm also at The Writers Place.

The exhibition will end on Saturday, December 8 with another opportunity for the artists to perform or speak new or unshared work.

Application should include:

• Artist statement and vitae and complete contact information.
• Six (6) to eight (8) examples of your work, which include examples from each medium you wish to display or perform.

Visual entries should be JPG format; musical or voice/performance entries should be on MP3 or send a YouTube link on which examples of your work can be viewed. You may also send your entries by mail CD* with SASE for returning to: fbradley@writersplace.org or The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111.

All examples must be labeled with your name, title of the work, medium and when it was created. Work does not need to be new.

If you have musical performance entries, please provide electronic (MP3 or YouTube link) or CD examples of your music.

Visual entries should send their entries in JPG formats; musical or spoken voice entries should be MP3 or Wav formats or send a YouTube link on which examples of your work can be viewed. Send these to: fbradley@writersplace.org.

You may also send your entries by postal mail on CD* with self-addressed stamped envelope for returning to: The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111.

Review and acceptance of entries will begin immediately upon receiving each application until the final deadline of September 7. Please contact Carol Kariotis at 816-753-1090 or fbraley@writersplace.org with questions.