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Call for Wyoming Queer Artists

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Artemisia Tridentata
From Rugged Soil

Celebrating Queer Wyoming Artists at MASS Gallery (Austin, TX)
Exhibition Dates: June 6–11, 2026

Alces Community Works invites Wyoming-based queer artists to submit work for Artemisia Tridentata, a multi-artist exhibition at MASS Gallery in Austin, Texas. This exhibition centers queer creativity, resilience, and community in Wyoming and places our voices in dialogue with MASS Gallery’s (inter) national LGBTQIA+ programming.

MASS Gallery is a volunteer-run, democratic collective in Austin dedicated to fostering creative and social action within LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities. Their mission includes hosting bi-monthly exhibitions and events, supporting artists with studio space and residencies, and providing a gathering place for marginalized communities. Learn more: massgallery.org/about

For questions or assistance, please contact:
alcesworks@gmail.com

  • Artists are invited to engage the questions:
    What do queer spaces, queer safety, and queer joy look and feel like in Wyoming?
    How do you imagine queer spaces, queer safety, and queer joy in Wyoming? 

    Submissions may respond directly or metaphorically to the theme and may be inspired by personal experience, community dialogue, local histories, or rural queer futurities.

    All mediums are welcome, including but not limited to: painting, sculpture, photography, textiles, installation, video, mixed media, and performance (with documentation).


    • Open Call Released: December 1, 2025

    • Submission Deadline: February 1, 2026

    • Artist Notifications: March 1, 2026

    • Artwork Arrival in Laramie: May 1, 2026
      (Alces will transport all works to Austin)

    • Exhibition at MASS Gallery: June 6–11, 2026 

      • Install begins May 30th, deinstall completed July 18th, 2026

    • Works returned via dropoff or shipping by July 30th, 2026

    • Open to queer-identifying artists currently living in Wyoming.

    • Emerging, mid-career, and established artists are encouraged to apply.

    • Artists living across Wyoming, and all rural/remote communities are especially encouraged to submit.

    Artists will be selected through a combination of:

    • Open RFQ submissions

    • Direct invitation

    Selections will be made by Alces Community Works, with consultation from MASS Gallery’s collective members.

  • Please email the following to alcesworks@gmail.com

    Artists should submit the following through alcesworks.org:

    1. Artist Statement (250–500 words)

    2. Proposal or Work Samples

      • Up to 10 images, or

      • Up to 5 minutes of video

    3. Short statement (150–300 words) on how your work connects to queer life, space, or joy in Wyoming.

    4. Short letter of intent (150 words) why do you want to show work at Mass Gallery? 

    5. Short bio and contact information

    Proposed works may be new or already completed. Selected artists are welcome to refine or expand work based on community conversations.


    • $150 travel stipend for artists wishing to attend the opening.

    • Housing provided in Austin for the duration of opening weekend.

    • Artists will be invited to participate in a panel conversation at MASS Gallery during the run of the show.

    • Alces will cover return shipping for all works.

Open call // rolling basis

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THe snow survey science communicator residency

Come spend time in the Snowy Range, where art, science, and storytelling meet. The Snow Survey Science Communicator Residency invites artists and communicators of all kinds to immerse themselves in the Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest, create new work inspired by local ecologies, and share stories that connect people to place.

The residency offers four Wyoming-based science communicators (broadly defined—artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, educators, storytellers, etc.) artists the opportunity to participate in a mini residcency to develop work that visually tells the stories of local ecologies and ecosystems. By supporting both artistic practice and environmental storytelling, this residency fosters deep engagement with place while creating meaningful connections between artists, the public, and the natural world.

Each participating resident will be given the opportunity to exhibit work at the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center Gallery.

  • Please email the following to alcesworks@gmail.com:

    • short letter of interest stating why you’d like to have this residency (250 words max)

    • 3–5 samples of your artwork (any medium).

    • A short bio (150 words max).

  • We accept letters of interest on a rolling basis. Residencies are awarded four times a year, with notifications sent on the equinoxes and solstices

    • Location: Historic Snow Survey Cabin, along the Snowy Range Scenic Byway in the Brush Creek–Hayden Ranger District of the Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest.

    • Who: Four Wyoming-based science communicators (broadly defined—artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, educators, storytellers, etc.) selected each year.

    • Support: $150 stipend + up to 4 nights of accommodation in the Snow Survey Cabin.

    • Opportunity: Time to immerse yourself in the wild, create new work, and visually tell the stories of local ecologies and ecosystems.

    • Exhibition: Residents will be given the opportunity to exhibit work at the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center Gallery.

    • Flexible Scheduling: Residency dates are set in collaboration with participants. Your time is your own!

Open call // rolling basis

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Celebrate Wyoming People’s History book and poster Project

Alces Community Works invites Wyoming artists to contribute to the Celebrate Wyoming People’s History Project, a new series of posters—and future book publication— that honors the untold, overlooked, and powerful stories of our state. This project is developed in partnership with the internationally recognized Celebrate People’s History! poster series created by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, which for more than 25 years has amplified grassroots movements, collective struggles, and everyday people who shaped history.

We seek Wyoming-based artists, designers, and storytellers to create original poster artworks that uplift little-known histories. We are interested in: individuals whose lives and labor shaped our communities; groups or movements that organized for justice, equity, and dignity; events that reveal Wyoming’s diverse cultural, labor, and social histories; stories that may have been erased, suppressed, or left out of textbooks.

  • Please email the following to aubrey@alcesworks.org:

    • A short letter of interest stating what story you’d like to uplift and why it matters (250 words max).

    • 3–5 samples of your artwork (any medium).

    • A short bio (150 words max).

  • We accept letters of interest on a rolling basis. Acceptance of poster prosals are announced on:
    MLK Day
    César Chávez Day
    May Day
    Juneteenth
    Indigenous People’s Day.

    • Who: Wyoming-based artists, designers, and storytellers (broadly defined—visual artists, printmakers, photographers, illustrators, educators, community historians, etc.). All career stages welcome; priority given to underrepresented voices.

    • Support: Artist honorarium of $300 + publication and distribution of your poster locally and nationally.

    • Opportunity: Create an original poster uplifting an individual, group, event, or movement from Wyoming’s people’s history—stories of labor, resistance, resilience, and cultural heritage often missing from mainstream history.

    • Exhibition: Posters will be exhibited across Wyoming in schools, museums, and community spaces, with opportunities for public programming.