Confluence Community

04/07/2026

Earth Day CALL FOR ART!

ONLY A COUPLE DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT!

We are looking for artwork and creative projects that reflect relationships with the natural world, including themes of environment, stewardship, sustainability, restoration, community resilience, and the ways people are rethinking materials and creative practices.

Artists working in all visual mediums are welcome to submit, including photography, painting, mixed media, digital work, video, and experimental practices. Emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply, and submissions are open internationally.
AI-generated artwork is NOT accepted.

FREE TO SUBMIT
FREE TO PARTICIPATE
OPEN TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES

Exhibition Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026
Exhibition Opening: April 22, 2026 (Earth Day)

There are many ways to participate, submit artwork, share your projects or resources, become a community partner, or join the team helping bring the exhibition to life.

Learn more:
https://www.confluencecommunity.org/earth-day-art-exhibition

Submit your work for the exhibition:
https://www.confluencecommunity.org/virtual-art-exhibit-submission-form

04/07/2026

Earth Day CALL FOR ART!

ONLY A COUPLE DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT!

We are looking for artwork and creative projects that reflect relationships with the natural world, including themes of environment, stewardship, sustainability, restoration, community resilience, and the ways people are rethinking materials and creative practices.

Artists working in all visual mediums are welcome to submit, including photography, painting, mixed media, digital work, video, and experimental practices. Emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply, and submissions are open internationally.

AI-generated artwork is NOT accepted.

FREE TO SUBMIT
FREE TO PARTICIPATE
OPEN TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES & ARTISTS

Exhibition Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026
Exhibition Opening: April 22, 2026 (Earth Day)

There are many ways to participate, submit artwork, share your projects or resources, become a community partner, or join the team helping bring the exhibition to life.

Learn more:
https://www.confluencecommunity.org/earth-day-art-exhibition

Submit your work for the exhibition:
https://www.confluencecommunity.org/virtual-art-exhibit-submission-form

04/04/2026

How are you celebrating the Earth this month?

Submissions for the 2nd Annual Earth Day Art Exhibition are open, as well as for the 2nd Issue of Where We Are Magazine!

We have plenty of opportunities for you to share your love for our planet and get involved!

Link in Bio to learn more

Check out the 1st Issue of Where We Are Magazine - OUT NOW!!! 😃



"Steward of Our Planet" Mandala Art from the Elements Collection, by resident artist Phyllis D.R. Sanders.
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03/26/2026

Earth Day Submissions are now open!

This year’s exhibition brings together artists, organizations, and communities exploring how creativity, environmental awareness, and everyday action protect our planet.

Alongside the exhibition, we are building shared resource lists, highlighting sustainable practices, and creating opportunities for people to contribute in meaningful ways.

We are looking for artwork and creative projects that reflect relationships with the natural world, including themes of environment, stewardship, sustainability, restoration, community resilience, and the ways people are rethinking materials and creative practices.

Artists working in all visual mediums are welcome to submit, including photography, painting, mixed media, digital work, video, and experimental practices. Emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply, and submissions are open internationally.

AI-generated artwork is not accepted.

We are also inviting community groups, environmental organizations, educators, small businesses, and individuals to participate by sharing the work they are already doing.

This includes:
+ Community projects and local initiatives
+ Environmental programs or events
+ Sustainable studio or business practices
+ Creative reuse ideas and material innovation
+ Resource lists, tools, and educational efforts that help others make more environmentally responsible choices

By sharing real practices and lived experiences, we are building a collective resource that helps artists and communities learn from one another and discover practical ways to care for the planet.

FREE TO SUBMIT
FREE TO PARTICIPATE
OPEN TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES

Exhibition Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026
Exhibition Opening: April 22, 2026 (Earth Day)

Learn more:
https://www.confluencecommunity.org/earth-day-art-exhibition

Submit your work for the exhibition:
https://www.confluencecommunity.org/virtual-art-exhibit-submission-form

Celebrate Earth Day with an environmental art exhibition, eco-art programming, artist collaborations, and the global Plastic Cap Eco-Art Challenge.

03/19/2026

We always have opportunities to share, to learn about one another, and find community.

Earth Day to Artist of the Month, and Where We Are Magazine, these spaces are here to find each other, and inspire one another to grow, to learn, and to care.

We look forward to learning more about you! Submissions are open on our website, share with us!

Issue #1 of Where We Are Magazines launches March 31st!!!

03/13/2026

Open Call: Earth Day Art Exhibition

Artists from around the world are invited to share work for our Earth Day Art Exhibition!

Celebrate creativity, nature, and environmental awareness through any medium, painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, digital art, and more.

This year’s exhibition highlights the power of art to inspire action and reflection about the planet.

Selected works will be part of our Earth Day Art Exhibition, and featured in Where We Are, our quarterly magazine.

We are also including our Plastic Cap Eco-Art Challenge and Meetup, inviting communities to turn plastic caps into collaborative art, one way everyday actions can make a global impact.

Learn more:
https://www.confluencecommunity.org/earth-day-art-exhibition

03/11/2026

What if one of the most common pieces of trash in the world could become something meaningful?

The Plastic Cap Eco-Art Challenge invites artists, classrooms, and communities to collect plastic bottle caps and transform them into creative works of art, diverting these small plastics, which often break down into microplastics, into something that can last a lifetime.

Collect.
Count.
Create.
Share.

From small mosaics to community murals, every cap becomes part of a larger story about creativity, awareness, and protecting the planet.

Join us as part of our Earth Day program, and help show how small actions can grow into collective global impact.

Explore the link in our bio to learn more and join the Eco-Art Challenge!

02/28/2026

Artist of the Month Open Call

May 2026 | Pollinators & Planet

We are looking for artists and creatives to submit work for our May Artist of the Month, centered around the theme Pollinators & Planet.

Pollinators play a vital role in sustaining ecosystems, food systems, and biodiversity. This theme explores interdependence, care, and our shared responsibility toward the natural world. We welcome artwork that reflects relationships between species, environmental awareness, and the quiet yet powerful work of pollination.

What We’re Looking For
Subjects / Imagery
+ Bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, birds, and bats
+ Native plants, wildflowers, gardens, and meadows
+ Pollination as movement, exchange, and ecological cycles
+ Pollen, wings, hives, or microscopic/macroscopic perspectives
+ Human relationships with ecosystems and environmental care

Art Forms Welcome
+ Botanical illustration (scientific or expressive)
+ Painting (realistic, abstract, or symbolic)
+ Collage using natural or recycled materials
+ Textile and fiber art
+ Sculpture or assemblage
+ Photography (macro, environmental, documentary)
+ Printmaking (linocut, woodcut, screen print)
+ Educational or storytelling illustration

Conceptual Angles
+ Interdependence between species
+ Fragility, resilience, disappearance, and renewal
+ Pollinators as caretakers or messengers
+ Environmental stewardship and ecological connection

Selected Artist Receives
+ Feature article highlighting your creative journey
+ Solo virtual exhibition
+ Dedicated artist page on our website
+ Digital certificate of participation
+ Feature in Where We Are Magazine

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2026

We welcome emerging and established artists working from personal, cultural, environmental, or storytelling perspectives.

Submit your work and become part of a growing creative community.

https://www.confluencecommunity.org/artist-of-the-month-program

02/25/2026

“Take what you need... as the ice melts, both metaphorically, and in some sense, literally, this piece began as a need to process the brutality of the world, the destruction of society and nature, of people and planetary harm. ICE Melt holds many layers of symbolism and simplicity, meant to reveal the parallels, of light and dark, destruction and hope, harm and care. Political and environmental undertones speak to the harm caused by lack of care for people and the planet, but despite it all, the beauty of humanity emerges, standing firm, while offering hope. Like many others right now, we are experiencing the dichotomy of deep sadness, suffering, and horrific violence, with an urgent need for hope, peace, courage, justice, truth, and love.” -

ICE MELT, is part of a larger body of work, and exhibition series launching in 2026. Created by resident artist and curator Phyllis DR Sanders, this collection is a personal journey of processing harm and trauma, of using art as a form of healing, and hope.

Stay tuned for opening dates and more details!

02/25/2026

“This art piece greatly symbolizes the transformation that an individual ultimately achieves as a result of doing some intense inner work. We are initially individualized by the experiences we've walked past in our lives. Such experiences originate right from our upbringing, then via our adult lives, resulting in the ways we view ourselves and the world around us through our confirmation biased filters existing in our consciousness. A majority of people have been caught up in harsh and negative encounters throughout their years of growth stemming from unresolved family traumas, rigid cultural systems, and toxic societies. All these have eventually shaped unfavourable thought and emotional patterns, which have shaped their lives with elements of dissatisfaction, discontentment, fear, anxiety, and lack of self-worth just to mention a few. Inevitably, at one point in an individual's life, the soul begins to scream louder than the ego, this being a call to detach from the standards of the external world and to give utmost attention to one's transformation and renewing of their minds, which should be largely focused on purpose, passion, desire and unconditional love. Viewers are invited to allow way from conscious healing, to practice forgiveness and acceptance, to fuel self-love, to redefine self-identity and self-concept, also to operate on authenticity and reclaiming of power. It is through this form of transcendence that one can no longer be manipulated or controlled, but can live in truth and firmness, as an integral and resilient being, having the capacity to discern and to make decisions from a deeper place of their own free will, then being able to blossom gracefully wherever they are.” - Erica Molefi .leeanne.molefi

Find Erica's pieces in the Art for All | Open Art Exhibition now showing, and explore the Artist of the Month Gallery to spend more time with her work.

Link in Bio