Opening Reception: April 20th, 2026

The Canadian Association for Health Humanities (CAHH) invites submissions for Unsilenced Stories: Art as Witness in Health Research, a juried exhibition presented in partnership with Club SAW, a leading artist-run centre, as a core component of the Creating Space 2026 national health humanities conference. The theme for Creating Space 16 is “The Impact of Identities on Health and Wellbeing.”

The accompanying exhibition directly embodies the conference’s theme of Indigenous and patient-centered research by centering voices often excluded from medical discourse. Unsilenced Stories aims to create a vital space where visual art fosters dialogue that bridges art, research, and lived experience, making knowledge accessible across disciplines and clinical structures.

We seek emerging and professional artists that explore health, illness, and healing through a critical lens. We welcome submissions from clinician-artists that document their own bodily experiences or represent ethical, consent-based collaborations with patients as co-creators. Selected works will be exhibited at Club SAW and become part of a permanent, publicly accessible digital exhibition archive on the CAHH website, serving as an enduring resource for interdisciplinary project partnerships, education and research.