Calling all Radical Artists: Enter to win up to $3,500 with your vision of a Sovereign Indigenous Future - Submission Form

Honor the Earth is creating a world where Indigenous Sovereignty is recognized, respected, and upheld. We envision a future where communities thrive with honor, abundance, and in right relationship with Mother Earth. We do this in three ways: Organizing the movement around the needs of the People and Mother Earth; investing in Indigenous leadership, self-determination, frontline struggle, healing, and the next generation; and protecting the land, the people, and all that we hold sacred. This is how we are building a future that is anti-imperialist, decolonial, de-militarized, disabled-inclusive, gender-inclusive, anti-racist, and abolitionist.

We know it’s always been easier to name the many broken systems in our world than it is to offer up viable alternatives. Yet, visionary organizing is both possible and absolutely critical to the decolonization movement. This is where you come in. We’re inviting Indigenous and Black artists across the globe to help us envision a sovereign Indigenous future — a future that has grown beyond colonization, genocide, imperialism, prisons, white supremacy, ableism and all the other modern systemic oppressions. We’re collecting digital submissions of original artworks across various media that respond to this prompt: what does a Sovereign Indigenous Future look like? Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000-$3,500. See below for contest details.

Indigenous and Black Peoples have long upheld the importance of art as an integral part of maintaining our values, cultures, lifeways, and Sovereignty. Settler colonialism has worked hard to eradicate and exploit our art forms through genocide and commercialization because they understood how powerful our art can be. 

Because of this, we intend to uplift the role of Indigenous and Black Artists in the movement to protect the Land. We believe that artists can lead us toward a decolonized future by depicting what exactly we are moving towards. As organizers, it’s our role to identify and resist extractivism and false solutions to climate change. Artists are vital to identifying what comes next in the transition.