CURRENT EXHIBITION
JUNE 2025
Opening reception, Friday, JUNE 6TH, 5-8 p.m.
showS on display through JUNE 28TH
SELF STARTER
Cottonwood Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a juried exhibition for the month of June featuring works in response to an open call to the public: SELF STARTER.
The selfie has become a part of our culture that means different things for different living generations in our society. It can be an exercise in narcissism, ironically indifferent, politically poignant, or even just plain candid. For this call, we asked artists to start with a smart-phone-generated self portrait, we did not accept works generated by any other type of camera. The portrait must have been taken by the artist of themselves, not captured by a second party.
This digital image was the launching point for a work of art that expresses their relationship with the world, however they defined that real or virtual space. Artists were free to incorporate any other mediums that called to them. We welcomed non-traditional display formats in addition to all other mediums for consideration.
Photo credit: Aaron Graves - America’s Sweetheart