Call for Artists to Explore the Zodiac for a Virtual Art Exhibition

Racine Art Museum (RAM) and RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, Wisconsin,
invite artists across the globe to submit a digital entry to What's Your Sign? RAM Virtual Community Art Show, the museums' third virtual exhibition. This exhibition will be accessible via tablets in the downtown RAM galleries from October 12, 2022 through February 11, 2023, and viewable online at ramart.org during and after the formal exhibition dates.

The word zodiac describes an astrological system or, perhaps more often in popular context, the twelve regions that make up the system and identify as “signs.” These signs, associated with different animals or symbols, are also linked to personality traits and the specific day someone was born.

The upcoming RAM exhibition, David R. Harper: Zodiac—a physical counterpart to the RAM Virtual Community Art Show—will feature a series of sculptural works based on the zodiac signs. Harper uses imagery and metaphor to encourage people to think about how the meaning of an object can change based on who is interacting with it. Further, he hopes viewers will reflect on themselves, in his words: “to see themselves, based on their zodiac characteristics, in some way in the work.”

Entry to the RAM Virtual Community Art Show is free and open to artists of all ages. Makers are invited to submit innovative and imaginative work that investigates aspects of the zodiac. Potential interpretations of this theme include inventing personal astrological systems or tarot card art, reflecting on animal imagery for more grand ideas, or creating work related to stars and constellations.

All work submitted—one entry per person—must have been made after January 1, 2020, and must not have been previously exhibited at RAM or RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts. Virtual entries are not prohibited from being exhibited onsite at RAM and/or RAM’s Wustum Museum in other future exhibitions.

Further information and a digital entry form are available on the RAM website, ramart.org. High-quality images of work must be submitted online by 4:00 pm CDT on Monday, September 19, 2022.

Exhibitions at Racine Art Museum are made possible by: Platinum Sponsors—Judith and David Flegel Fund, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Ron and Judith Isaacs, Nicholas and Nancy Kurten, Windgate Foundation; Diamond Sponsors—Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation, Ruffo Family Foundation; Gold Sponsors—Anonymous,David Charak, Tom and Irene Creecy, Herzfield Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Racine Community Foundation, Reliance Controls, Trio Foundation of St. Louis, W.T. Walker Group, Inc., Wisconsin Arts Board; Silver Sponsors—A.C. Buhler Family, Andis Foundation, Lucy G. Feller, Ben and Dawn Flegel, Annette Hirsch Family, Dorothy MacVicar, RDK Foundation, Real Racine, Jan Serr and John Shannon, Twin Disc, Inc.; Bronze Sponsors—Anonymous, Baird, Susan Boland, Virginia Buhler, Educators Credit Union, Fredrick and Deborah Ganaway, Get Behind the Arts Studio Tour, William A. Guenther, Tom and Sharon Harty, Tony and Andrea Hauser, David and Judy Hecker, Bradley Lynch, Carlotta Miller, Larry and Barbara Newman, The Norbell Foundation, Deb and Will Walker; Media Sponsors—88Nine Radio Milwaukee, Wisconsin Public Radio

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The two campuses of the Racine Art Museum—RAM in downtown Racine at 441 Main Street and the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts at 2519 Northwestern Avenue—are located in Racine, Wisconsin, a historic community on the shores of Lake Michigan. RAM is home to the largest
contemporary craft collection in North America and has a reputation for its award-winning architecture and nationally recognized exhibition program. RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts is home to the organization's diverse, award-winning art education programs and has presented significant art exhibitions since the 1940s.

Both campuses of the Racine Art Museum are currently operating with limited hours, open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 4:00 pm. Both museums encourage all visitors and staff who are not fully vaccinated, and those who feel more comfortable wearing a mask, to continue doing soin public areas at RAM and RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts. Some in-person art classes and workshops at Wustum still require masks, determined on a case-by-case basis.