CALL FOR WORK 2025: To Enshrine Memory

Every year, Gamut Gallery’s Call for Work draws submissions from artists working in a wide range of styles, mediums, and perspectives. This year, 167 artists submitted over 700 works for consideration. Guest curator Juleana Enright reviewed every submission and, through careful and intuitive selection, uncovered a resonant thematic thread. From this expansive collection, 34 works by 28 artists were chosen for the exhibition To Enshrine a Memory.

This year’s selected works collectively explore the tension between holding and releasing, between memory and renewal. They examine what it means to live well and how we might prepare ourselves to die well, too. Through natural materials, abstraction, ritual, and storytelling, these pieces reflect on our connections to land, body, ancestry, and impermanence.

To Enshrine a Memory invites viewers to consider: What are we memorializing? What offerings do we make to the past, and what residue do we leave behind for the future? These works become vessels of grief and hope, resistance and rest. Some whisper of what lies beneath the surface, of invisible prescriptions and buried truths. Others grant permission to exist in the unknown, to embrace rot and decay, and to welcome the precarious and the sacred to our tables.

Echoing ecofeminist author Sophie Strand’s words, “Everything is connected to something. But not everything is connected to everything. The differences are vital.” This exhibition is an invitation to reflect on our place in the web of life not as isolated individuals, but as interconnected beings navigating memory, death, and the vast, unknowable cycles of nature.

About the Curator:
Juleana Enright (they/them) is an Indigenous, queer, non-binary, freelance writer, independent curator, and DJ. They are an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Lakota Tribe. Juleana is currently the Gallery and Programs Manager at All My Relations Arts. They have contributed to local platforms, Pride Magazine, mplsart, MnArtists, Hand Papermaking Magazine, and City Pages. As an independent curator, Juleana has curated six exhibitions, including Soft Boundaries at Gamut Gallery, biskaabiiyang (returning to ourselves) at All My Relations Arts, Anomalies at the Harry M. Drake Gallery, and Green Roof Poetry at the Walker Art Center. Juleana was a recipient of the Emerging Curators Institute fellowship program in 2020-21, part of the Writers Residency program at Franconia Sculpture Park in 2021, a writer’s fellow with MnArtists in 2023-24, and currently a writer’s fellow with Sixty Inches from Center. Through their practice, Juleana strives to examine the act of daily creation amid great chaos.

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