LatinXperiencia 2026: "La Resiliencia"

LatinXperiencia 2026: "La Resiliencia" call to Latino/a/x artists

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Resilience is a superpower! During challenging circumstances and difficult times it can give us the strength to persevere through great adversity with fortitude, and it can provide the flexibility and resourcefulness to find pathways forward with a creative mindset.

When we face disruptive, life-changing personal events such as changing jobs, becoming parents, suffering injury or illness, dealing with the end of a relationship, or experiencing the death of loved ones, we can draw on our adaptability and self-reliance as we rebuild a new sense of self, stability and purpose.

On a larger scale, the world today confronts us with a daunting barrage of deeply troubling realities: a dire shift toward authoritarianism, menacing threats to immigrants and communities of color, economic crises, war, environmental disasters — all events that can alter the course of millions of people’s lives and call for a concerted, collective effort to fight for a better world with great courage and tenacity.

And even relatively smaller stressors can be more easily overcome with a resilient constitution or attitude and the ability or determination to find a solution; think of a tree bending and not breaking in the wind, an artist overcoming a creative block, or… certainly you can imagine any number of scenarios in which resilience makes all the difference.

How do you envision resilience? We invite you to submit artworks that reflect some aspect of this potent and complex idea.

This call is open to Latino/a/x artists living in the US, working in any art media / discipline. The artwork content does not in any way have to be specific to Latino/a/x themes or culture, although it can be, of course. We welcome any and all interpretations, imagery and content that captures the idea of “resilience.”

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

La Resiliencia will be presented at Cabrillo Gallery as part of our annual LatinXperiencia exhibition series and in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Our LatinXperiencia series features Latino/a/x artists speaking to a wide diversity of themes, offering a platform to foster cross-cultural connections and generate meaningful conversations within our diverse academic community and beyond.

Timeline:

• Submission Deadline: July 29, 2026, 10:59 Pacific Time, 11:59 Mountain Time
• Selected artists notified by: August 17, 2026
• Delivery of artwork: 
  • Shipped artworks must arrive at Cabrillo Gallery no later than September 16.
  • Work delivered in person will be accepted at the gallery on September 17 and 18.
• Exhibition: Selected artworks will be exhibited at Cabrillo Gallery September 28 to October 27, 2026.

3 Juror's Awards: $300, $250, $200

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ABOUT THE JUROR:

Alyssarhaye Graciano is the Visual Arts Curator at  MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, CA. In addition be being a community curator she is a published author and practicing textile artist. Her curatorial practice has focused on emerging and established artists of color, uplifting untold stories, and artistic expressions.

Prior to MACLA, Graciano held positions at Silicon Valley Creates and New Museum Los Gatos. An arts advocate, she volunteers on the GenArts Steering Committee, writes for Content Magazine, and is currently in the Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute (MALI). Alyssarhaye is trilingual with a BA in Languages and Literature from the University of California, Riverside.

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ABOUT CABRILLO GALLERY:

Cabrillo Gallery in Aptos, California presents high quality art and design exhibitions, lectures and other programming to promote a broad range of discourse about the visual arts and culture. Our programming serves to educate and inspire our academic community at Cabrillo College, the wider community of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, and beyond. To learn more about the gallery, visit https://www.cabrillo.edu/cabrillo-gallery/

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