Call For Art
Future Forward 2025
Call Type: Exhibition
Eligibility: Regional
State: Washington
Mediums: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Fiber Art, Video, Photography, Installation
Submission Deadline: Monday, January 6, 2025, 5pm PST
Notification: January 13
Delivery of Artwork: January 30 - February 1
Opening Reception: February 8, Georgetown Art Attack 2-8 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 8 - March 23
Future Forward is a curated regional group exhibition open to artists with a connection to the Greater Duwamish Valley. This could mean that you’ve lived, worked, or have studio space in the area, or simply find inspiration in its unique history, ecosystem, or cultural landscape.
This third annual exhibition at Mini Mart City Park (MMCP) will explore interaction between humans and the environment, encompassing the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of this theme. Priority will be given to artists that work from a social and/or environmental justice perspective and first-time exhibiting artists are encouraged to apply! This exhibition aims to celebrate the artists and community that distinguish this region and keep it creatively thriving.
Mission
Mini Mart City Park is a place for the arts, education, environmental action, and community collaboration in the Duwamish Valley.
Vision
We have transformed a former gas station into a pocket park and cultural center in Georgetown across the street from Boeing Field on Ellis Avenue South. After 10 years of planning and environmental work, we broke ground in July 2018. We completed construction in 2021 and opened to the public in 2022.
Our work is rooted in the belief that it is vital to create community hubs for people to build power and a voice in decisions being made to develop their neighborhoods. MMCP will serve as an artist-designed, community-led space advocating for creativity and public health through art exhibits, residencies, environmental action, and locally-focused programming in the Lower Duwamish Valley for decades to come.
Goals
01.
CLEAN
Installing state of the art remediation technology in a small neighborhood brownfield will clean the earth under the site.
02.
BUILD
A structure where people come together to strengthen their community ties.
03.
EDUCATE
A place to learn about art, architecture & healthy urban environments
04.
ART
A permanent cultural center for Georgetown and the greater Duwamish Valley
Connect with the past. Dream up your future.
History & Future
In 2005 SuttonBeresCuller had a vision to identify and purchase a property in King County and rehabilitate it, proving the potential of art to propel a project that simultaneously repairs damaged land while providing shared, multi-use community space.
In 2008, we identified the Mini Mart City Park site and began environmental assessment work. In 2013, SuttonBeresCuller formed the Mini Mart City Park 501(c)3, which purchased the site.
With the support and engagement of the Georgetown community, Mini Mart City Park is now open to the public . Working with goCstudio we have developed a design for a pocket park and arts-oriented community center.
Incorporating sliding walls and a green roof to create a porous, modular space that blends indoor and outdoor activities such as gallery shows, movies in the park, potlucks, community meetings, readings and live music, Mini Mart City Park embraces the site's history, bring communities together to dream up their futures, and literally clean earth with art.
