KZMOHD

Reconstruction 2.0: Allegories of a Better World

Submission Opens: March 28, 2026

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026

Artists Notified By: May 22, 2026

Public Exhibition Date: June 28, 2026

Exhibition Venue: Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minneapolis Institute of Art, June 28, 2026. Artists are invited to submit original works which reflect the world they want to see, examining themes such as:

• Virtue and moral courage
• Nobility beyond class or status
• Truth, justice, and liberation
• Reconstruction and unlearning
• Memory, history, and inherited systems
• Cultural healing and collective imagination
• Confronting ignorance, silence, and erasure
• Envisioning a more equitable future

Works should center visual storytelling and historical reflection. See Juan de Pareja, Diego Velazquez (1650); The Calling of Saint Matthew, Juan de Pareja (1661); Allegory of the Planets and Continents, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1752); and Standing Rock, Jim Denomie (2016).

This exhibition is happening in conjunction with the release of film, “The Making of America,” a humanities documentary from OMG Studios and Minnesota Humanities Center, that examines how Enlightenment-era systems of knowledge—art, science, architecture, and cartography—produced enduring frameworks for racial slavery, territorial extraction, and Indigenous dispossession in what became the United States. The film advances the argument that these outcomes were deliberate consequences of its visual and systemic commitments to order, hierarchy and control. Exhibited works may be featured in the film.