Brill Family Foundation Call for Artist Submissions–Santa Barbara and Ventura County

Deadline to Apply: June 13, 2025

Many artists are struggling to understand and deal with the  oncoming opportunity and threat of AI. The Brill Family Foundation is concerned with  helping artists, art organizations and educational institutions adapt to this inevitable  future world. To accomplish this, we are putting on an AI art show titled “Symbiosis or  Schism: The AI Human Odyssey,” that addresses this theme. In addition to the  exhibition, a subset of the artists whose submissions are selected for the show will be  eligible for grants of up to $5000. 

Art has always played a very important part in society, especially in times of change. We  are looking to our artist submissions to highlight some of the issues we face with the  rapid advancement of technology, and to suggest some solutions or, at the very least, to  open the dialog, bringing more people into the discussion. 

This exhibition and grant opportunity, which is limited to Santa Barbara and Ventura  Counties, seeks to accomplish the following goals: 

1. Encourage artists who are mindfully experimenting with AI 
2. Raise consciousness, participation, and involvement of the art community in AI 
3. Use art to highlight concerns about AI (just as artists expressed their concerns  during the industrial revolution) 
4. Suggest paths forward for the successful, collaborative, and positive integration  of AI into the art world and society in general 

To learn more or apply please visit: https://peterbrill.net/ai-art-exhibition/

AI Art Exhibition  

The public opening is scheduled for October 2nd, 2025 at the Community Arts  Workshop in Santa Barbara, CA and the show will run through October 12th, 2025. 

Theme: Symbiosis or Schism: The AI Human Odyssey 

AI is a mirror of the human mind—capable of creation and destruction, innovation  and disruption. This exhibition invites artists to explore the profound duality of AI:  its potential to amplify human brilliance, and offer solutions to some of mankind’s  greatest problems, while also posing existential challenges. We seek artworks that  capture this conflict—AI as an ally or adversary, or both. 

Is AI a tool for creative synergy or a force of division? How might this dynamic  unfold over the next 5, 10, 20 years within the art world and society at large?  Through their submissions, artists will illuminate the tension, transformation, and  ultimate possibilities of AI-human coexistence. 

For more information about the event, please visit our website at 

https://peterbrill.net/ai-art-exhibition/. 

About The Brill Family Foundation 

The Brill Family Foundation is currently interested in finding ways to encourage the use  of emerging technologies like AI and VR in the Arts to positively impact human  consciousness and engender qualities like empathy, trust, connection, and awe.