Fast fashion dominates our landscape & landfills. Slow Fashion is often stereotyped as boring, shapeless, and prohibitively expensive. This exhibit seeks to explore the environmental challenges of what we wear now and asks how we might wear our clothes in a not only sustainable, but also restorative future.

 

The Speed of Fashion is a national call looking for artwork exploring fashion and fibers in an environmental and climate justice context, with an emphasis on solutions-centered work. We are looking for work that investigates the environmental and ethical issues around the current state of fashion– from textile production to labor issues to consumer waste in the fashion industry.

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Critically, we are looking for work that imagines and explores solutions to the world of fashion, whether speculative or already in action. We are especially interested in work that celebrates existing, under-appreciated solutions, such as DIY attitudes in alternative subcultures, and slow fashion that may be inherent to a cultural dress.

 

Fibers work will be the heart of this show, but any artwork exploring fashion or fibers in a climate justice context as a theme is welcome. This is a national call to artists residing in the United States. 

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Work may take the form of the following:

• Original slow fashion garments (displayed on mannequin or hanger)

  • Artists must send their work ready to be displayed.

  • Mannequins are only recommended for artists able to deliver their work in person.

  • Slow fashion garments should be oriented towards a couture or costumey space, emphasizing creativity in a gallery setting, not necessarily ready-to-wear.

• Slow Fashion illustration/garment design

• Any media (2D, 3D, time based, installation) that investigates fashion through an environmental justice and climate lens, whether solution or problem oriented.

• 2D & 3D work that employs slow fashion edicts in its process or production (upcycling textiles, sustainable fiber arts, visible mending)

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A $12 application fee supports the administrative costs of this exhibit & providing honorariums. This fee is discounted for current Undergraduate students to $6, proof of enrollment is required (any combination of student ID number, email, and expected graduation date is acceptable). Application fees may be sent via venmo to @crowsnestbaltimore. One application may include up to 3 pieces of artwork and 15 attached images.

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This fee may be entirely waived on a need based basis, please email alexi@crowsnestbaltimore.com to obtain a fee waiver. Applications will not be considered complete until the application fee or fee waiver have been confirmed.

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You may apply here. 

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Entry fees will not be refunded for any reason. 

 

Timeline:

• Call Opens April 8

• Call Closes May 9

• Selected artists contacted: May 14

• Installation window: May 26-June 6

• Opening: June 7

• Programming TBD on Saturdays 1-5 PM while show is open

• Closing: July 5

• Deinstallation Window: July 7-14