Rooting Deep, Branching Out | Institute for Sustainable Living, Art & Natural Design [ISLAND]

Deadline Extended until July 31st

How to Enter Your Work

Deadline Extended until July 31st

1.) Download the Digital Call to Artists.

Support Local Art

Help cover the costs of prize money to local artists! ISLAND and JRAC would like to offer up to $1000 in prizes for selected artists at the Rooting Deep show. Any person, business or group who donates any amount, including in-kind donations, will receive a public thank you and a web/program listing. If your business or organization would like to donate $500 or more, we’ll gratefully work with you to provide additional exposure. 100% Bay Bucks are accepted up to $250 and 50% up to $1000.

Levels of support
Seed: $50
Seedling: $100
Growing: $250
Mycelium: $500
Harvest: $1,000

You can contact us for more information, or donate here:

The Project

What do we know about place? How do we understand place through art?

ISLAND is proud to work alongside The Jordan River Arts Council (JRAC) to present a collaborative art exhibition about place. Help to craft a vision of what it means to live in Northwest Lower Michigan—particularly in our relationships to the specific geographies, economies, cultural communities and ecologies of the many small places that make up the north. We invite you to create, collaborate on or host works that allow viewers to move beyond the romantic and often facile answers to the question: “What does it mean to live up north?”

A Call to Artists

Artists have a unique capacity to tell us stories about ourselves – stories that help us to view our community and our world through new eyes. Artists of all disciplines help contribute to this important creative process.

We invite you to submit new or existing work that you feel helps our community to understand more about where we live. Work can be as simple and straightforward, or as complex and conceptual as you like.

How does your art express your life in NWLM?

Accepted mediums include any of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, print making, film/video, photography, etc.), music, performance, and writing.

Also, beyond submitting work for exhibition at the JRAC gallery, we’re also inviting artists to create indoor or outdoor pieces for public view anywhere in the region. These installations will be mapped to allow the public to find and view the art.

A Call for Partners

JRAC and ISLAND are happy to partner with other arts organizations, galleries, area schools and other institutions to act as hosts for works produced (including performance) or to engage in this project in other creative ways. We invite your ideas and your participation!

How to Enter Your Work

1.) Download the Digital Call to Artists.

2.) Download the Entry Form

3.) Email Payment

Application Information

The gallery show will take place from August 9th to Sept 18th 2009.

Deadline for juried submission is July 6.

The show will be juried by Glenn Wolff. There is a $10 entry fee. Prizes will be awarded.

New or existing works are accepted for juried consideration. Accepted mediums include any of the visual arts, music, performance, and writing.

Collaborations, performances and indoor or outdoor installations are encouraged!

Questions? Contact Brad Kik @ (231) 480-4515 or brad@artmeetsearth.org or Babs Young at JRAC ar (231) 599-2220 or email babsy@elkrapidsnet.com

How to Enter Your Work

1.) Download the Digital Call to Artists.

2.) Download the Entry Form

3.) Email Payment

Online Submission of Entry Photos

If the total file size of your photos is under 10 Mb, email them to Brad Kik @ brad@artmeetsearth.org with the subject line "Rooting Deep, Branching Out"

If the total file size of your photos is greater than 10 Mb, we suggest using YouSendIt, a free large file delivery service. Direct files to brad@artmeetsearth.org