The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) is seeking applications from multidisciplinary artists to showcase original work in Free Your Mind: The Expansion, an exhibition conceived and curated by Shenna Vaughn.

Submit here: https://jcal.submittable.com/submit/319626/visual-voices-2025-free-your-mind

This RFP opens on Friday, January 30, 2025, and closes on Friday, February 22, 2025. Submissions received after the RFP closes will not be considered.

Free Your Mind: The Expansion is not just an exhibition—it's a call to break free from the mental barriers that limit us. Building on the foundation of its predecessor exhibition, Free Your Mind, also mounted by JCAL in 2023, this iteration takes the transformative journey of creativity to new heights. It brings together a diverse group of artists who defy their own mental and creative limitations, demonstrating the power of liberation and the boundless possibilities that emerge when we free ourselves from self-imposed constraints.

Any idea, any concept, any medium, whether its abstract, representational, figurative, or surreal—if you have a story to tell or special technique to display, it is all welcomed. Free Your Mind: The Expansion is a safe space to celebrate your freedom through the display of your art. Give yourself permission to push past your own critique and create from a space of wonder and exploration. Show us who you are, tell your stories, and speak your truth on what it is like to be free! 

Free Your Mind: The Expansion will open at JCAL on Friday, March 14, 2025, and run through Saturday, May 3, 2025, as part of JCAL’s Visual Voices curatorial initiative. Artists selected for this exhibition will each receive a $250 stipend.

Work will be reviewed based on quality and the completeness of the application. You may be contacted with follow-up questions regarding the nature of the work and intended manner of exhibition. Artists are responsible for transporting and collecting all artwork to and from the institution. JCAL reserves the right to not exhibit artwork that does not meet display criteria or does not align with the institution’s mission.