Soul of My Soul Exhibit is a children’s art exhibit which promotes conversations about Palestine through arts and culture.

We are looking for both visual arts and performance art submissions from child artists.

Note: if you are interested in volunteering on May 18 in Morgan Hill, please click here.

Fill out this form to submit art for the Morgan Hill event.

Please have it filled out no later than May 12.

Art work can be dropped off in one of the following ways:

1. The morning of the event on May 18 starting at 11 am.

2. A designated art coordinator will reach out to arrange a different drop off time ahead of the event.

There are 4 categories of artwork that can be submitted:

1) “Hope” Display Drawings

2) 3D Visual Arts within a Theme

3) Other Visual Arts

4) Spoken Word/ Poetry or Performance Arts

Details on Arts Submissions:

1) “Hope” Display Drawings

We welcome artwork from all children for the “Hope” exhibit. To participate in this exhibit, each child should draw on an 8.5” x 11” paper (cardstock preferred) responding to the following question:

What is your hope for the children of Palestine?

Please include 1-2 sentences describing your artwork and the first name of the artist and their age on the drawing. If you are an educator and would like your students to participate in this display, please reach out to us so we can arrange to collect the drawings from you. We accept submissions of physical drawings; they do not need to be scanned and sent in.

To parents and teachers: please note the theme of this display is about hope specifically. We would like the children to imagine what they want the children in Palestine to have and express themselves freely. The question is vague on purpose so that each child can respond in their own unique way.

2) 3D Visual Arts within a Theme

We are looking for artwork reflecting certain themes (listed below). This artwork can be a painting or a 3D display. For 3D displays, we recommend that the size of the base does not exceed 14” x 18”. Some examples of displays created in the past can be seen here.

The themes we are looking to highlight are:

• Rubble - showing the amount of destruction

• Displaced - highlighting the issue of forced displacement

• Orphaned - bringing attention to the plight of the orphaned children

• Amputees - talking about how 10 children a day in Gaza get their limbs amputated

• Starving - highlighting the use of forced famine in a genocide

• Thirsty - bringing attention to the fact that Israel has cut off water

• Dark - bringing attention to the fact that Israel has cut off electricity

• Cut Off - bringing attention to the fact that Israel has cut off telecommunications

• Pain - talking about how people in Gaza are forced to undergo medical procedures without anesthesia

• 911 - highlighting the intentional targeting of ambulances and healthcare facilities

• 28 Days - bringing attention to the lack of menstrual products available in Gaza due to Israeli siege

• Unschooled - talking about the interruption to schooling and the targeting of schools

• NICU - highlighting the murder of the five NICU babies in Al Nasr hospital

• Detained - talking about the systemic imprisonment of Palestinian children

• Occupied - showing the apartheid in the West Bank

• Targeted Because of Their Dad’s Job - highlighting the targeting of journalists and their families

• “Please come get me. I’m scared.” - relaying the trauma of Hind Rajab’s final moments

• The Birthplace of Jesus - highlighting the plight of Palestinian Christians

• Baiting Starving People - bringing attention to the targeting of starving people looking for food, such as The Flour Massacre

• We Are Paying for This - talking about the US’s financial involvement

For more information or context about these categories, visit our Sources Cited page.

3) Other Visual Arts

If you have any other visual art that doesn’t fall into the categories listed above, we still want to display it! When filling out the art submission form, please provide as much detail as you can about your art piece so we can prepare to display it.

We do not want to turn away any young artists. Your art is welcome even if it doesn’t fall into any of the categories listed above.

4) Spoken Word/ Poetry or Performance Arts

We would love our young artists to present their spoken word or poetry (either original or created by others) at our event! Please be sure to sign up in the art submission form and indicate the time you are available to present. Note: you can read a poem that was written by another person, so long as it’s relevant to the subject and you credit the author. For a list of recommended poems, click here.

If you have another form of performance art you would like to present, please let us know in the art submission form. Be sure to provide as much detail as you can so that we are able to accommodate your sound system and space needs.

To submit art for our Morgan Hill exhibit, please fill out the form here no later than May 12.

Note: we reserve the right to refuse any artwork that does not fall in line with the theme and goals of our exhibit.