The original TBWIG exhibition has challenged patriarchal constructions of Black femininity; each has a visual arts exhibition, interpretive panel discussions, artists’ talks, and contextualizing performances that investigate how black women artists produce art, dance, sculpture, and ritual as the highest form of knowledge.

The grand opening is October 19th at The Marlowe Building, 231 Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Union Square. The submission deadline is September 22nd, 2023.

The exhibition theme this year for 2023 is MOTHERHOOD. We will discuss what MOTHERHOOD means to us. We will investigate the social conditions that profoundly impact Black mothers and Black mother figures who work towards a collective resistance against a systemically, violent society: black mothers gynecologically experimented upon, dating back to slavery, black mothers trafficked and raped, disrupting their ability to claim their own bodies and become caregivers to their children, black mothers incarcerated, addicted forcing them to be absent from themselves and their children, Black mothers so impacted by society, they lose their minds, their homes, and their families, Black mothers who fear for their children while reminding them that their lives have endless possibilities, and Black mothers that assume the roles of MOTHERHOOD without having children or recognition. What are the ways we as artists can honor all the ways Black mothers show up in our Community so that we can move towards healing generational trauma, and in doing so, we create art as ritual practices that heal us through our divine feminine selves?

Those who were in the June 29 exhibition will automatically be placed in the main exhibition on October 19, 2023. However, please add new images and details about the work

Submissions are due September 22, 2023, by 11:59 pm PST.

October 9, 11, 13 is the drop off date at 231 Grant Street San Francisco CA 94108 between 1-6pm.

Thank you in advance for participating in this powerful exhibit. I look forward to seeing all of your work.

*For those who are sending working from outside the Bay Area, please note that you will be responsible for your own shipping expense.