FREE ENTRY / Artists for Plants - "The Creativity of Plants" Open Call

How might we, humans, learn from the defense skills of plants? How might we be inspired by and benefit from their healing powers? What do plants teach us in terms of creativity and imagination?

Artistsforplants has taken up the desire of many artists from all over the world to bring their contribution towards a more conscious awareness of the centrality of plants in life, both for Human beings and the Planet.

Our 2025 International Call is focused on artworks dedicated to the plants who, in response to all kind of challenges, have always been able to respond by adopting special survival strategies and healing powers that they continue to invent today.

From recent studies we know that not only plants developed an extraordinary ability to thrive in some of most deathly environments, but they also developed unique healing capacities.

When attacked by a predator, plants, over the course of evolution, have come up with amazing creative solutions, ranging from developing a symbiotic relationship with other creatures (bees and many other animals including herbivores and fungi) to manipulating them toward their own interests (such as flowers mimicking the female of some pollinators), to becoming poisonous when they are overly preyed upon (establishing a natural balance), to attracting the enemy of their enemy (giving off scents to attract the predator of some worms that eat their leaves), and many others. In addition, plants have created a network together with fungi, spreading information and healing substances to help other plants and maintain the balance of the ecosystem.