Call for Artists: Visual Exhibition in Conversation with MOJADA by Luis Alfaro

The Selma Arts Center invites local artists to submit work for a special lobby exhibition to accompany our production of Mojada by Luis Alfaro. This powerful reimagining of Euripides’ Medea follows a Mexican immigrant family in Los Angeles as they navigate the promises and perils of a new home. The play wrestles with identity, sacrifice, love, betrayal, assimilation, and survival, offering a mirror to contemporary lives.

We are seeking visual artwork that responds to or resonates with these themes:

Migration & Borderlands – stories of movement, displacement, and arrival; the cost of leaving one home to create another.

Myth & Ancestry – reimaginings of Greek or Indigenous myth, cultural retellings, ancestral connections, and how old stories live within us today.

Domestic Spaces & Labor – the tension between home and work, the interior life of families, and the invisible labor that sustains survival.

Transformation & Power – flight, metamorphosis, resistance, and survival in hostile spaces.

Women & Sacrifice – depictions of female strength, resilience, rage, and love.

We welcome submissions from artists working in all visual mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, textile, digital, and mixed media. While we are looking to support artists whose work speaks from or to the experiences of the Central Valley’s immigrant, Chicanx/Latinx, and working-class communities, all are invited to submit. 

Exhibition Details:

• • • • Location: Selma Arts Center lobby gallery

• • • • Dates: Exhibition runs concurrently with the production of Mojada, October 3-18, 2025

• • • • Eligibility: Open to artists of all backgrounds; emerging and student artists encouraged to apply

• • • • Submission Deadline: Friday, September 26, 2025

To submit a visual art piece, complete the submission form with  3–5 images of your work (JPEG or PNG), an artist statement (250 words or less) that explains how your work connects to the themes above to: 

Selected submissions will be notified via email.

All accepted submissions will be displayed in the lobby and auditorium of the Selma Arts Center. Artists will receive a pair of complimentary tickets to the show to be used at any performance. (2Tickets per artist, multiple submissions by the same artist will not receive more than 2 comps.) 

Artists will have the option to submit artwork for sale and retain 50% of the profit.  All artwork will be displayed until the end of the run, October 18th. 

For more information, please email Nicolette Andersen at nicolettea@cityofselma.com or call 559-891-2238.

MOJADA runs October 3rd - October 18th at the Selma Arts Center. To purchase tickets go to SelmaArtsCenter.com/tickets