Call To Artists: The Art of Carnaval

BACCA (Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts), Harper Bella, and Jose Tutiven - the Artists Create Change project and partnership through CRNY - invite artists to participate in “The Art of Carnaval,” the opening event of an ongoing project celebrating art forms that are part of global carnival festivals. Five artists will be chosen to have their work displayed at the BACCA Arts Center, 149 N. Wellwood Avenue, Lindenhurst, NY, at the opening event and celebration on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 and in the Arts Center display window from February 21st through March 31, 2023. The jurors will also present a virtual exhibition of works curated from the entries received (in addition to the five selected for the opening event), which will be available to view from February 22nd through May 1, 2023.

The deadline to submit work is Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 11:59PM EST. There is no entry fee; submissions are free to all. The jurors are Harper Bella and Jose Tutiven. For entry information visit https://www.babylonarts. org/art-of-carnaval .

Artists are encouraged to submit original art in any medium that focuses on the global themes of Carnival:

• Culture, ritual, tradition

• Freedom, liberation

• Disguise, masquerade, identity, authenticity

• Excess, abundance

• Celebration, festivity, play

• Unity, connection, collective revelry, community

• Renewal Carnival is celebrated in over fifty countries across the world, each with its own cultural traditions, rituals, symbolic imagery, and art forms. Carnival (Carnaval in Spanish, Portugese, and French-speaking countries; Carnevale in Italy; Fasnacht in Switzerland); Karnawal in Poland; and Karneval in Croatia and Germany), is the festivity that takes place in many countries around the world during the last days and hours before the Lenten season. Carnival originated as a non-religious festival in ancient Egypt to mark the end of winter and welcome spring.

For more information about BACCA’s involvement with the Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment

Program, and about Harper Bella and Jose Tutiven, visit https://www. babylonarts.org/creativesrebuild.

About BACCA

The Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts is a notfor-profit arts organization bringing theater, music, fine arts and cultural events to the residents of the Town of Babylon, NY. Please visit our website at www.babylonarts.org for a complete listing of our programs and events, or to find information about becoming a member. Email: info@babylonarts. org.

BACCA’s programs are made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the County of Suffolk, County Executive Steven Bellone and the Suffolk County Legislature, the Town of Babylon, Supervisor Rich Schaffer, the Town of Babylon Local Development Corporation (LDC), the Lindenhurst Business Improvement District, and from membership and private contributions.