Call for Submissions

MOON SQUARE: After the Mooncakes

Think!Chinatown

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New York, N/A N/A

Deadline

Oct 04, 2021

Posted

Sep 24, 2021

Chinatown Arts Week (ChAW) 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. Let us know by Oct 4 if you are interested in participating!

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

Image of submission is due October 13th at noon.

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

Artists are invited to sell their piece through online silent auction with the starting price they choose, and we’d be grateful for a 30% proceed share with T!C.

If you are interested in participating, please fill out the form below so we can get back to you about exhibition details. We’d love it if you could help us spread the word to other artists.

Chinatown Arts Week is a festival curated and produced by Think!Chinatown. This year’s ChAW is Oct 15-24.