LOVE IS KIND: SUMMER OF COMMUNITY 🔗 Submit Your Work Here:

https://www.confluencecommunity.org/virtual-art-exhibit-submission-form-2025

Theme: The power of community, friendship, and embracing our shared humanity. Inspired by National Love is Kind Day, this exhibition celebrates the bonds that connect us, the beauty of diverse cultures, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Call for Artists: We seek artwork that reflects the essence of friendship, the strength of community, and the joy of connection. We especially encourage pieces that uplift LGBTQ+ voices, honor diverse cultural traditions, and highlight the ways we can support and uplift each other. Submissions may include paintings, digital art, photography, poetry, spoken word, and mixed media.

This is an historic year, one where joy is a form of resistance and creativity is a call to action. The Love is Kind exhibition invites LGBTQ+ artists, storytellers, and visionaries from around the world to capture the essence of Pride through their art. In a time when our identities are being challenged, erased, and legislated against, we are holding space to honor what they cannot take from us: our creativity, our stories, our love.

Let this exhibition be a reminder that Pride is not just a month, it’s a movement. A practice. A lifelong act of visibility, vulnerability, and connection. Let’s carry that spirit forward, through every brushstroke, every photo, every spoken word and memory shared. Together, we’re building a global gallery that reflects not just who we are, but what we stand for.

Love is kind. Love is strong. Love is here.

📅 Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2025 

🖥️ Virtual Opening Reception: July 27, 2025 (National Love is Kind Day)

For Attendees: Celebrate the connections that make life meaningful! This exhibition offers a vibrant collection of art that highlights the beauty of diversity, the importance of kindness, and the many ways we build and sustain community. Explore the artwork, hear stories of resilience and love, and be part of a conversation on unity and inclusion.

This exhibition is hosted in collaboration with:

The Kansas LGBTQ+ Community

CODAC GLOBAL: Coming Out Day Art Celebration

🔗 Submit Your Work Here:

https://www.confluencecommunity.org/virtual-art-exhibit-submission-form-2025