Fresh Meat Productions is now accepting all sizes of artwork for the Sixth Annual Fresh Meat in the Gallery Exhibition in San Francisco. This year's theme is Defying Gravities.

• Do you make visual art?
• Are you trans, transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender-variant, gender-fabulous?
• Do you want to have thousands of visitors from around the world see your art during San Francisco's Pride month?

Then send us art on the theme of Defying Gravities that is:
Artwork of any size that can hang on the wall
(We are unable to exhibit free-standing sculpture, video, or other 3D work. Only wall mountable works will be considered.)

We welcome work from international, incarcerated, professional, emerging and new artists! Your work does not necessarily have to deal with gender. See below for mailing address and submission guidelines.

About the theme: DEFYING GRAVITIES
In these unstable times how do you and your community rise up and thrive?
What do you create that grounds or defies?
How do you ground yourself in the midst of instability?
What connections do you rely on or seek out?
How do you find relief through humor or outrageousness?
What do you dream of for yourself or your community?
Queer history is full of acts of defiance. How do you find inspiration today in these histories?

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1. Send us up to three images, as medium-resolution JPEGs, saved onto a CD. Images should be no larger than 5x7 inches and between no larger than 150 dpi. Please do not send large files!
2. Send us a completed Artist Information Form
   [download form here]
   [click on link or right-click and save to your computer]
3. To send your submission via MAIL: burn your JPG images and Artist Information Form to a CD and mail them to:
   Fresh Meat Productions
   3128 16th Street, PMB #240
   San Francisco, CA
   94103
4. Or send us your submission via EMAIL: simply email your JPGs and completed Artist Information Form to exhibitions.freshmeat@gmail.com
5. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is APRIL 15, 2009 (received by date, NOT postmarked date).

NOTES:

• Late submissions will not be considered. Early submissions are much appreciated! Artists will hear back from us by April 30th.
• Please do NOT send original artwork.
• Digital files can be submitted either on a CD/DVD or via email. Please contact us if you have any questions about this process.
• If you do not have access to downloading the Artist Information Form, please email exhibitions.freshmeat@gmail.com to have a copy mailed to you.

EXHIBITION DATES:
Fresh Meat Productions presents:
Fresh Meat in the Gallery VI: Defying Gravities
LGBT Community Center
June 6 - July 15th, 2009
1800 Market Street @ Octavia, San Francisco
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 12noon-10pm, Saturday 9am-10pm, Sunday Closed
Admission: FREE
Opening reception: June 6, 2009

QUESTIONS:
Contact: exhibitions.freshmeat@gmail.com

Fresh Meat in the Gallery is an annual exhibition of visual art by transgender and gender-variant artists presented by . We seek to empower artists, expand the repertoire of original work authentically exploring transgender experience, bring visibility to trans communities, connect trans artists with diverse audiences, create dialogue and build community. Fresh Meat in the Gallery is part of the National Queer Arts Festival and accompanies Fresh Meat 2009, our 8th annual festival of transgender and queer performance, (June 18-21 at Project Artaud Theater in San Francisco). Last year, over 2,000 people attended Fresh Meat in the Gallery.

We look forward to seeing your work!