SaveArtSpace is proud to present MELT ICE, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY, starting November 3, curated by Molly Crabapple.

ICE is the American Gestapo, kidnapping our neighbors from the streets and locking them in concentration camps. This call is devoted to art opposing ICE.

We invite artists of all ages and talents to submit their artwork between August 11 and September 22, 2025. This is an opportunity to have your work exhibited on billboard ad space in New York, NY.

Open call for art ends September 22, 2025. There is a small donation per image submission to participate, each donation is tax deductible and goes to producing the public art. Selected artists will be announced after October 6, 2025. Public art will be installed November 3 in New York, NY, and will be on view for at least one month.

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Curator

Photo by Dan Efram

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage is the 2022 winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animations have won two Emmy awards and also won an Edward R. Murrow Award. She was a 2024 fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library researching her upcoming book, 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund.'

Connect with Molly at @mollycrabapple.

SaveArtSpace

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a message of social change that benefits the working class. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.