Since 1994, WiVLA has held a collaboration almost every other year. Members eagerly anticipate the project and enjoy the process. We began the 2026 collaboration by establishing the theme: WILD.

This theme speaks to what is untamed, instinctive, and uncontained. It is a space beyond rules and refinement—where emotion, intuition, and raw experience lead. WILD can appear as nature, inner landscapes, memory, rebellion, or transformation. It invites artists to explore freedom, intensity, and the beauty found in disorder, risk, and vulnerability.

WILD may be interpreted literally or abstractly. It can emerge through nature, inner landscapes, personal narratives, fragmented forms, bold gestures, experimental language, or moments of rupture and transformation. Whether physical or psychological, external or internal, WILD reflects forces that resist containment and invite risk, intensity, and freedom.

WiVLA members are encouraged to create work that responds to WILD through expressive imagery, innovative materials, unconventional structures, or powerful storytelling. All interpretations are welcome.

Partners found each other in various ways: a speed-dating meeting, gatherings to meet fellow members, and even a few “blind dates.” Some members found themselves intrigued by women they knew only by name. Others were captivated by new sides of members they already counted as friends. Long-time members paired with brand new members. New members summoned up the courage to work with someone unknown. Many members picked partners they didn’t know well to see where the challenge of the theme of Entangled would take them.