View Past Exhibits Below:
2025: UNREAL – Open call for submissions: 9/3/24 – 10/31/24
UNREAL. Extraordinary, Impossible, Nonexistent: this multiplicitous concept serves as a source of inspiration, a rallying cry, a warning, and a tool of oppression. That which is unreal is limitless, but chipping away its edges has...
Past Exhibits
2025: UNREAL – Open call for submissions: 9/3/24 – 10/31/24
UNREAL. Extraordinary, Impossible, Nonexistent: this multiplicitous concept serves as a source of inspiration, a rallying cry, a warning, and a tool of oppression. That which is unreal is limitless, but chipping away its edges has driven innovation, science, and art for millennia. Some things which were once unreal are now commonplace; some will forever remain in that “other” realm. Where some see danger, others see a challenge. Where some see nonsense, others see beauty. And some employ that which is unreal as a tool to illustrate the very real problems we face today.
This open call is looking for clever and evocative submissions that touch on topics like futurism, science fiction, inventions, fantasy, allegory/metaphor, challenging the impossible, and dystopias/eutopias.
Science Communication Art (SciComm Art) is an interdisciplinary form of expression that incorporates STEM topics, art, and educational content. There is a lot of flexibility on what “counts” as SciComm Art – it can range from more science-focused to more art-focused, but always includes an interesting back story that engages audiences on an intellectual AND emotional level. If you have questions, email Maris Polanco at polancmc@udmercy.edu.
2024: CNXNS
The shortest distance between two points isn’t just a straight line; it’s a connection. What prevents all things from being islands in their own universes? What threads bind human to human, or human to animal, or human to technology? Social connection is a fundamental aspect of our life experience, from umbilical cord to last embrace. In another sense, the invisible connections between atoms, chemical bonds, give shape to the physical world, condensing celestial gas into solid planets, forming the building blocks of life and fueling the cycle of metabolism that sustains it. And connections through time create the very fabric of reality; cause-and-effect, development, and evolution all show us that distinct events are not unrelated in the metaphysical realm.
All art created by UDM students, faculty and staff.
