Call for Entries – Bright Lights Youth Arts Exhibition 2024
Arts Centre Washington’s annual Youth Arts Exhibition is looking for submissions for Bright Lights 2024. Supported by Sunderland Culture, Bright Lights will showcase some of the most exciting artwork by young people in Washington and the Greater Sunderland Area, and will be curated by Celebrate Different Collective.
This is an exciting opportunity for 11-19 year olds to submit artwork for display in Arts Centre Washington’s professional gallery.
Submissions of existing and newly created work across art forms including visual arts, sculpture, creative writing, illustration, photography, animation, textiles, music, video and all things creative are welcomed.
Celebrate Different Collective is a group of young people aged 13-25 from across Sunderland who, with support from Sunderland Culture, co-produce and run their own cultural events, work with artists and learn new practical skills.
The group have decided that they want the theme of Bright Lights 2024 to be about identity and who you are: Bodies, Brains, Big Issues and Bits.
We want to see artwork that fits the themes which could be interpreted as:
Bodies
• Drag
• Disability Pride
• Gender expression/diversity
• Body image/dysmorphia
• Glitz and Glamour
Brains
• Neurodivergence
• Queerness in identity
• Quirks and differences
• Mental health
• Pride
Big Issues
• Sexism
• Climate Change
• Healing inner child
• Your history/learning from history
• I am scared/I am brave
Bits
• Colour
• Peace
• Pets big and small
• Chaos/order
• Music and instruments (what it means to you)
Inspired by Natural History Museum’s upcoming Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, this years exhibition will also have category specifically for young people’s wildlife photography.
We want to see artwork that fits the themes which could be interpreted as:
- Plants and Fungi
- Animal Behaviour, e.g. moving, feeding, hunting, hiding
- Photo-journalism – what environmental story do you want to tell?
- Oceans and wetlands, e.g. ponds, rivers, bogs
- Wild animal portraits (no pets please)
- Natural artistry, e.g. beautiful patterns, shapes, colours, forms in nature – e.g. finding faces in nature
- Urban wildlife – wild animals in our towns and cities
- The weather
- Wild landscapes
Deadline for submissions is Tuesday 16th January.
Youth Arts Exhibition 2024: Submission Form
Bright Lights: Youth Arts Exhibition 2024 is supported by Sunderland City Council’s Washington Area Committee as part of our Creative You Project.
The project is based from Arts Centre Washington and led by Sunderland Culture in partnership with Washington Mind.
