Call For Artists: Moon Square

Chinatown Arts Festival follows the Mid-Autumn festival…and we all know what happens to mooncake tins after the mooncakes are eaten. They become treasure boxes of small things, memories, and preserver of wishes…see Hui Ma’s beautiful illustration of the mooncake tin as an Everyday Chinatown Story. We celebrate this object through a participatory exhibition! In the space of a mooncake tin, lid on, lid off, using the box as a frame for an illustration, using the box as a space for sculpture, a space for ceramics?… we invite artists to express the spirit of the mooncake tin.

Requirements

Works must use an actual mooncake box, one that has housed mooncakes in its lifetime

The mooncake box can be painted on, collaged in, be the space for small sculptural items, house illustrations, we’re open to how it’s used, but it must be within the space of the mooncake box

We are still confirming venues to exhibit the works, so we don’t know the exact number we’ll be able to exhibit physically.

All pieces submitted will be exhibited online

Photograph of submission is due October 14th at noon.

If selected, artist is responsible for bringing the piece to site and to pick up after the exhibit (if not sold)

Artists are invited to sell their piece at the price they choose, and we’d be grateful for a 30% proceed donation to T!C.

This year, we ask artists to directly submit the entries through the Google Form, rather than a note of interest.