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The 34 Gallery aims to channel the power of art to explore monthly mental health themes through art therapy. Your participation is a form of mental health advocacy that also brings global attention to these conditions.

•  This month, we are particularly interested in works by artists utilizing this art therapy open call to address:  ADHD, CDD, Autism, Anxiety, Dissociative Disorders, PTSD, Substance Abuse Recovery, TBI & Chronic Illness.

Our April Open Call, “Focus" has been created by our 34 Gallery Staff to explore the impact of maintaining mental stability while managing external triggers amid internal upheaval. As artists, we already know focus is vital to completing our work. The weight of deadlines and lack of support for our craft can feel crushing. But we keep going. This month, we ask you to channel this energy into providing focus for those struggling to find theirs. Each of the conditions covered in this Open Call takes a toll on human life:

• More than 50% of adolescents with ADHD/CDD report suicidal ideation. 
• Among adults, more than 33%.
• Over 70% of individuals with a history of suicide attempts have an anxiety disorder. 
• Individuals with Dissociative Disorders often have up to 3 suicide attempts in their lifetime.
• A TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) diagnosis doubles the suicide risk for those living with this condition.
• Individuals with PTSD, in Substance Abuse Recovery or living with Chronic Illness are up to six times more likely to successfully commit suicide. 

For 2026, Artists are invited to explore what focus means. Delve into the calm within the anxious onslaught. Explore personal talismans that banish mental fog. Seek out the clarity through the earthquake of PTSD. Remind us why illness does not define who you are. Authenticate the experience of refusing to be labeled "damaged" in a world creating scars. Show us what Focus means to you.

Please Note: As a Mental Health Art Gallery, we are asking Creatives to mobilize to help save lives at this time. Someone seeing your work can be inspired to keep going with hope and resilience despite their mental health struggles. Your artistic advocacy with us can and will make a difference!

Open Medium. Fine Art, Poetry, Audiovisual, Short Film & A.I. Artwork Accepted. Submit up to 3 artworks or poems  by February 27th. Include the following questions in your cover letter: 

• Your artist name, artwork titles, and website/social media links.  
• 1 - 2 paragraphs describing the creative process regarding your work & how it fits with the Open Call Theme. 
• 1 - 2 paragraphs on your experience of maintaining focus through triggers, coping with a diagnosis, and/or living with symptoms that impede your everyday reality.

Selected artists will be notified by April 10th. 

• Be advised that this open call also includes a global youth & adult audience.
• Works that are sexually graphic and/or advocate violence (self or others), discrimination, or hatred (societal/gender/religious/cultural) of any kind will be disqualified.
• Technique for this call is open but not limited to: Open Medium. Poetry, Audiovisual & A.I. Artwork Accepted. 
• File Type: .MP4, .JPG, .PNG --File Size: Up to 100 MB for art & audiovisual submissions; Word, Google Docs,  or .PDF for poetry.

34 Gallery is proud to present “What’s in a Name”, a March 2026 open call inviting artists worldwide to explore identity, heritage, and self-expression through the lens of their own name. Using typography, letterforms, and text-based design as the primary visual language, this challenge asks: What does your name carry? What does it reveal, conceal, or transform?

Your name is often your first introduction to the world. It can be a gift, a burden, a chosen identity, a reclamation, or a bridge between cultures. This open call invites artists to use their name—first name, surname, nickname, chosen name, artist name, or any name that holds personal significance—as the foundation for a deeply personal visual exploration.

Theme: “What’s in a Name” invites artists to explore identity through typographic and text-based expression. Your submission must incorporate your name (in any meaningful form) as a central visual element.

• Form & Transformation: How can letterforms bend, break, bloom, dissolve, fracture, or evolve to reflect your lived experience?
• Layering & History: What languages, scripts, alphabets, or typographic traditions connect to your heritage or chosen identity?
• Visibility & Erasure: Does your name demand to be seen, whispered, hidden, reclaimed, overwritten, or protected?
• Multiplicity: Do you inhabit different names in different contexts? What do they each carry?

Traditional Interpretations:

• Hand-lettered calligraphy or expressive typography
• Printmaking featuring layered or distressed letterforms
• Embroidery, carving, or collage using your name
• A name deconstructed into abstract shapes reflecting a fragmented identity
• Overlapping multilingual scripts representing cultural intersections

Outside the Box Concepts:

• A chosen name emerging from or erasing a former name
• Typography that physically embodies the meaning of your name
• Names rendered as landscape, architecture, or organic growth
• Motion typography exploring pronunciation or silence
• AI-generated or digitally manipulated type that morphs across identities
• Generative or experimental type systems built from your name

Works may be purely typographic or integrate text with additional visual elements. Traditional, digital, AI-assisted, mixed media, and experimental approaches are all welcome.

“What’s in a Name” invites you to transform identity into art. Submit your work between March 1 and March 27, 2026, and let the world see what your name truly carries.

Create or Complete Your Webbie Social Profile:

1. 🌐 Visit webbiesocial.com
2. 🖼️ Add a profile photo.
3. 📝 Write a short artist bio.

Submit to the Open Call:

1. ➕ Click Add New Content.
2. 📂 Select Post Type: Open Calls.
3. 🏷️ Choose "Name"
4. 📤 Upload your submission and hit Submit.

• 🏆 Be featured in The 34 Gallery’s official digital showcase hosted on Webbie Social.
• 🌍 Gain visibility across Webbie Social’s creator network and partner media.
• 💎 Be featured on The 34 Gallery website and social media.

Your name holds a story. 

Let it take form. Bend it. Break it. Reclaim it. Redefine it.

• Selected artists will be notified by April 10th. 
• Technique for this call : Open Medium. Fine Art, Photography, Audiovisual & A.I. Artwork Accepted. 
• Works that are sexually graphic and/or advocate violence (self or others), discrimination, or hatred (societal/gender/religious/cultural) of any kind will be disqualified.