Language with Us
How Do I Participate?
Get your family together or individually create your art!
Please submit your exhibit proposals to the form below between now and no later than Tuesday, March 26th at 5PM EDT. We will contact you by email within one week if your submission is accepted or if we need additional details. Once your proposal is accepted, we will send you additional instructions for submitting your final product to be displayed at the pop-up museum.
The Call for Exhibit Proposals is Now Closed - stay tuned for photos and videos of the event and for future offerings of this event!
What can be exhibited?
You decide!
How do you language/ or how have you languaged?
How has your languaging been liberated?
Videos, photos, cutouts of newspapers, photo collages, pictures of our art growing up - or of our children, short interactions, words we learned growing up, expressions that we only use in our homes, nick-names, stories, love letters, grocery lists, poetry and raps...you imagine it!
Need More Ideas?
Video a short conversation with an elder, child, friend, family member, pet
Show the writings of ancestors,
Mix the modes of communication, collage, photo, drawing, poem, story, song, playlist.
Share a translingual material you created
Speak, sign, write, dance - use all your named languages and all their variations.
Describe your languaging growing up using only pictures or emojis,
If you language through sign, sign us a poem or your favorite rap about your own languaging
Invite us to learn about your storied traditions of personal migration and linguistic identity,
Tell us one lesson or recipe taught to you by your ancestors - show us who taught it, how you call the ingredients and what gestures you may use in making the recipe itself,
Recall a brave moment in your languaging through a painting, and
Impart beliefs and advice about languaging you want to leave imprinted for those who follow you