Open Calls
Baseball is weird when you think about it long enough. It is repetitive, ceremonial, irrationally emotional, and somehow still capable of breaking your heart on a random Tuesday night in July. Which is probably why Cincinnati keeps coming back to it, season after season, year after year, no matter what the standings say.
Us by Us Gallery is once again hosting 200c, our annual Reds themed art show. It is not subtle. It is not ironic. It is a sincere, slightly unhinged celebration of a city and a team that refuse to emotionally divest from each other.
This is an open call to artists, designers, and makers who feel compelled to respond to baseball, Cincinnati, or the strange overlap between the two. The work can be reverent, critical, nostalgic, obsessive, analytical, or completely off the rails. All of that counts.
If you have ever cared too much about a lineup, a logo, a superstition, a losing streak, a radio call, or a moment that happened decades before you were born, you already understand the assignment.
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