***Link to apply to call for entries below***

Resilience is a superpower! During challenging circumstances and difficult times it can give us the strength to persevere through great adversity with fortitude, and it can provide the flexibility and resourcefulness to find pathways through hard times with a flexible mindset.

When we face disruptive, life-changing personal events such as changing jobs, becoming parents, suffering injury or illness, dealing with the end of a relationship, or experiencing the death of loved ones, we can draw on our adaptability and self-reliance as we rebuild a new sense of self, stability and purpose.

On a larger scale, the world today confronts us with a daunting barrage of challenges: a dire shift toward authoritarianism, menacing threats to immigrants and communities of color, economic crises, war, environmental disasters–events that can alter the course of millions of people’s lives and call for extreme tenacity, courage and a concerted, collective effort to fight for a better world with courage and tenacity.

And even seemingly minor stresses or challenges can be more easily overcome with a resilient constitution or attitude and the ability or determination to find a solution. Think of a tree bending and not breaking in the wind, an artist overcoming a creative block, or… certainly you can imagine any number of scenarios in which resilience makes all the difference.

For this exhibition we invite all Latino/a/x artists from around the country, working in any art media and discipline, to submit artworks that express their vision of the potent and complex idea of resilience. To submit work, please go the call page on CaFÉ.

About the juror:

Alyssarhaye Graciano, Visual Arts Curator at MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, CA. In addition be being a community curator she is a published author and practicing textile artist. Her curatorial practice has focused on emerging and established artists of color, uplifting untold stories, and artistic expressions.

Prior to MACLA, Graciano held positions at Silicon Valley Creates and New Museum Los Gatos. An arts advocate, she volunteers on the GenArts Steering Committee, writes for Content Magazine, and is currently in the Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute (MALI). Alyssarhaye is trilingual with a BA in Languages and Literature from the University of California, Riverside.

Cabrillo Gallery’s LatinXperiencia series of annual exhibitions features LatinX artists speaking to a wide diversity of themes, offering a platform to foster cross-cultural connections and generate meaningful conversations within our diverse academic community and beyond.