The Apothecary: Call for Submissions
BUMP Festival Arts Society
Deadline: March 8, 2026, 11:59 pm MT
We are excited to launch something brand new this spring. BUMP Festival Arts Society invites Calgary based artists to submit work for The Apothecary, a month long curated exhibition and activated community space exploring medicine and health in their many forms.
Hosted in an underutilized commercial space in Chinatown, The Apothecary will function as a contemporary third space: part exhibition, part gathering site, part archive of how we understand care in this moment of social strain, political uncertainty, and collective fatigue.
We are primarily reviewing existing bodies of work. Rather than proposing something entirely new, we want to see what conversations your practice is already holding.
We welcome work that responds to the idea of medicine in a broad and expansive sense. This may include, but is not limited to:
- Healthcare systems, access and policy
- Care as resistance and mutual aid
- Mental Health
- Disability and chronic illness
- Cultural healing practices
- Ancestral knowledge and intergenerational care
- Grief, survival and recovery
- Culturally specific approaches to health
- Medicine as ritual or spirituality
- Art as critique, antidote or site of care
There is no prescribed medium or aesthetic. Artists are welcome to submit works across disciplines, including ceramics, small scale sculptures, paintings, textiles, photography, sound or other material and experimental practices. Submissions may be subtle or confrontational, personal or collective, speculative or documentary.
Full details and submission form, visit Present your work at The Apothecary – BUMP Festival.
