As part of our new SPARKS initiative, we are curating online art exhibitions that invite members of our community to share works inspired by process-relational thought & practice. Each exhibition will have a specific theme which will explore a key concept such as concrescence, prehension, nexus, eternal objects, or creativity through visual, sonic, literary, or multimedia works.
We invite you to submit photography, writings, painting, theater, poetry, music, animation, dance, gardening, sound, cooking, documented performance, or other creative expressions that resonate with the chosen theme. These digital galleries will provide a shared space to see how ideas from process philosophy come alive in diverse creative forms. Let your work embody how process-relational thought and practice comes alive in your own experience.
Details on our upcoming theme are below.
Call for Submissions: “Concrescence: The Many Become One“
Whitehead describes each actual entity as an experiencing concrescence, the process by which “the many become one, and are increased by one.” Through concrescence, influences from the past are gathered into a new unity of experience.
This theme invites works that explore moments of gathering, transformation, and emergence. Concrescence may show up in your art as the layering of memories, the blending of voices or sounds, the combining of colors or textures, or the shaping of many influences into a single expression. How do you sense disparate influences coming together into a new whole? How does your creative process express concrescence?
Submission Guidelines
Submissions are collected here on our SPARKS Community Site. If you aren’t already a member, you can learn more join here—it’s free!
For your submission, please include:
Your name and preferred credit (how you would like it displayed)
Title of the work (if applicable)
Medium (painting, poem, video, sound, etc.)
Short description of how your piece relates to the theme, up to 150 words
Optional: a link to your website or social profile
Attach or link your work as follows:
Images: up to 3 files, at least 1200 pixels wide, in JPG or PNG format
Text: send as PDF or Word (DOCX). If text is your main artwork, include a 1–2 line excerpt at the top
Audio or Video: send a link to download the file (for example, Google Drive, Dropbox, or WeTransfer) or a link that can be embedded in our gallery. Preferred formats: WAV or MP3 for audio, MP4 for video
Optional but helpful:
Year of creation and details like size, duration, or materials if relevant
Submission deadline: February 28, 2026
By submitting, you confirm that you hold the rights to share the work and grant us permission to display it publicly in the SPARKS digital gallery and related promotions for the exhibition period. We may resize or lightly compress files to optimize them for web display while keeping the integrity of the work.
Richard Livingston
Dr. Richard Livingston is Program Director of Education and Community, former Executive Director of the Cobb Institute, and a member of the Process & Faith Core Team. He received his PhD in 2015 from Claremont Graduate University, where he specialized in Philosophy of Religion and Theology. Richard taught as an adjunct instructor in philosophy and religious studies at four colleges in Southern California from 2011-2020, and has worked in IT since the early 1990s. He holds a Master’s Degree in Constructive Studies in Religion from the University of Chicago (2005) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Near Eastern Studies from Brigham Young University (2001).