✨ Opening Night — Friday, Dec 19, 2025 – CLICK TO RSVP
DEADLINE: Saturday, November 22, 2025 (11:59 PM EST)
Submission Form: https://form.jotform.com/whatsyourelephant/wye_soil
We welcome visual artists, mixed media artists, photographers, sculptors, installation artists, and interdisciplinary creators.
*If you have poems and or short stories THAT FIT THE THEME, please consider a way to make them hang-ready and submit the work.
Theme: SOIL — Where the Light Enters
Artwork should explore ideas of transformation, healing, resilience, and rebirth — reflecting the ways we grow through what we go through. Artists may interpret the theme through personal, emotional, cultural, spiritual, ancestral, or community lenses.
We are especially drawn to work that reflects lived experience and personal transformation — not just visual beauty, but the emotional truth beneath it.
Think about:
- breaking open
- healing
- rebirth
- confronting the self
- shadow work
- identity
- memory
- resilience
- ancestral connection
- grounding
- emergence
Work should invite viewers into a moment where something shifts — where the “light enters.”
Call for Artists: https://form.jotform.com/whatsyourelephant/wye_soil
DEADLINE: Saturday, November 22, 2025 (11:59PM EST)
Exhibition Details
Dates: December 19, 2025 – January 2026
Opening Night: December 19, 2025 at 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale
Curated and produced by Niki Lopez, award-winning Afro-Latina artist, curator, and social practitioner, SOIL unfolds as both a semi-retrospective and a living conversation. It highlights Lopez’s own works on healing and resilience alongside selected artists whose work embodies courage, truth, and transformation.
Activations & Community Experiences
Stay tuned for RSVP links for each experience.
All events take place at 1310 Gallery unless noted otherwise.
✨ Opening Night — Friday, Dec 19, 2025 – CLICK TO RSVP
A vibrant evening of art, performance, spoken word, and storytelling celebrating transformation and self-expression.
🎨 What’s Your Elephant™ Collage Workshop + Artist Talk — Dec 27, 2025
A community art-making experience and dialogue exploring healing, growth, and storytelling through collage and conversation.
🎭 Mindful Mask-Making Experience — Jan 8, 2026
A creative and reflective session blending cultural symbolism, identity exploration, and mindfulness-based art-making.
👨👩👧👦 Mommy & Me: It’s a Family Affair — Jan 18, 2026
A family-centered mindful art-making experience for parents, caregivers, and children to create side-by-side, encouraging bonding, emotional awareness, and creativity.
🌿 Wellness Day — Jan 11, 2026
Co-produced with Longville Wellness, this restorative day integrates sound therapy, acupuncture, expressive arts, and mindfulness practices for holistic well-being.
💞 Closing Event: Friendship, Network & Flow — Jan 23, 2026
Produced by Niki Lopez Creative, this soft closing gathers artists, vendors, and community members for connection, small-works sales, and conversations around art, wellness, and collective care.
About What’s Your Elephant™
Founded in 2013, What’s Your Elephant™ is a nonprofit arts and educational organization (since 2023) dedicated to using the arts to address the unspoken. Through exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, and interactive art installations, we create safe spaces for storytelling, mindfulness, and community connection.
Our work centers on:
• mental health &mindfulness
• gender & LGBTQ+ identity
• social justice
• place-making
• lived experience
• community wellness
• the arts as tools for transformation and dialogue
To learn more, visit whatsyourelephant.org
What’s Your Elephant™ collaborates with community groups, artists, nonprofits, and corporate organizations.
SUPPORT THE EXHIBITION
Your support helps us sustain free and accessible community art & wellness programming across South Florida.
Donate: https://givebutter.com/wye_soil
Every contribution — large or small — nurtures this work.
Featured community partners:
- Niki Lopez Creative
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Beyond Imagination Arts
