EXHIBITION CALL

WEAD’s 2027 Member Exhibition of Ecoart and Social Justice Art

Prototyping Futures of Making: Water, Data, and Living Systems

Online and at The 109 Gallery
Deadline for submissions:  January 31, 2027
Exhibition dates: May 1, 2027 to August 31, 2027 

EXHIBITION DETAILS

What does it mean to build within systems that are already alive? What forms of intelligence move through water, soil, biological networks, and data? How are we already prototyping the futures we inhabit?

Prototyping Futures of Making brings together artists whose practices engage water, data, and living systems as sites of construction, relation, and consequence. At a moment when AI/Data Infrastructures depend on vast quantities of water and land, this exhibition asks what it means to build within systems that are already alive. Trees transmit through root and fungal networks, rivers carry memory and contamination, and natural systems register signals that exceed human language, while computational systems abstract, store, and intensify data, intelligence, and flows of operation.

Drawing from contemporary developments in material ecology and interdisciplinary design, including frameworks advanced by Neri Oxman and curatorial perspectives shaped by Paola Antonelli at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition foregrounds practices that move beyond fabrication toward growth, co-production, and interspecies collaboration.

These questions are reflected in the practice of the show’s guest juror, Lisa B. Woods, whose work moves across art, technology, ecological systems, and interdisciplinary research. WEAD is pleased to welcome her as juror for Prototyping Futures of Making: Water, Data, and Living Systems.

Jurors are Lisa B. Woods and Leah Dalton, curator of physical exhibition at The 109 Gallery in Chickamauga, Georgia. They will prioritize work that closely addresses issues and solutions on this topic. WEAD will accept work in all media, including sound or videos.

The show will have:

• a printed catalog
• artist presentations on zoom
• a panel with thoughtful dialog
• awards will be given

All women-identified artists, non-binary, and trans-identified artists are welcome to become members and apply.

PLEASE read the EntryThingy instructions to prepare your entry. ​

RECENT ExhibitionS

WEAD’s 2025-2026 Member Exhibition of Ecoart and Social Justice Art

Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent

Online and at The 109 Gallery
October 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026

“The achievement of health is premised on the ability to control what enters and exits the body’s borders.” – Elvia Wilk

“Whether one is speaking of relating well with humans or nonhumans, in the variety of ways in which we relate ( sexually, intimately-but-not-sexually, as food, fuel or material ‘resources’), we are talking about sustaining one another.” – Kim TallBear

Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent investigates the intersection of bodies, ecology, and agency through the lens of permeability and protection, and explores how consent is navigated within biological, political, and ecological systems.

This dual exhibition appears online at WEAD’s KMX Gallery and in person at Leah Dalton’s The 109 Gallery in Chickamauga, Georgia. Juried by Beverly Naidus and Leah Dalton, the exhibit features 58 works from 44 artists, including 15 videos.

FULL EVENT SERIES FOR EXHIBITION

Virtual, except where noted, with optional in-person participation from The 109 Gallery

Poetry Reading + Films + Dialogue Series (Thursdays)

• October 18 · 6 PM EST – Launch event 

• October 30 · 7 PM EST – Petra Kuppers – Watch the recording

• November 6 ·  Film 7pm EST (in person only) Artist Talk 8:30 PM EST – Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens – Watch the recording

• November 13 · 7 PM EST – Ruth Wallen – Watch the recording

• December 11 · 7 PM EST – Shelley White, Deanna Pindell, Leah Dalton, and open mic – Watch the recording

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Artist & Curatorial Dialog Series (Saturdays)

• November 15 · 6 PM EST – Leah Craig – Watch the recording

• November 22 · 6 PM EST – Michele Brody – Recording available soon

• December 6 · 6 PM EST – Anne Yoncha – Recording available soon

• December 13 · 6 PM EST – Deborah Kennedy – Recording coming soon

• January 22 · 7 PM EST – A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation – Recording coming soon