CALLS FOR ENTRIES
2025 CALLS FOR ENTRies
PERICULO FELIS: CATS WITH THREATENING AURAS
OPENING reception | october 3 | 5PM - 8PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces
submissions due: 09/17, 09/18, 09/19 11AM - 4PM
Cats and people have coexisted for an estimated 12000 years.
There is no shortage of feline chicanery, mischief and hilarious misconduct documented throughout history, and for this call we are asking you to celebrate it to the point of aggrandization. Please review our show entry guidelines before you begin your submission. All mediums will be considered, previously exhibited works will not be accepted.
For inspiration:
Every rude cat you've ever known.
Every ridiculous cat on the internet.
And:
SOFA KING ABSTRACT
OPENING reception | NOVEMBER 7 | 5PM - 8PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces
submissions due: 10/15, 10/16, 10/17 11am - 4pm
Where do our works of art end up? The pieces we painstakingly toss our souls into, the things we make that leave all of ourselves behind on the canvas, in the clay, woven into a fabric shadow of ourselves.
Maybe they get famous. Maybe they live in a drawer or behind doors. But if they sell...they have a new identity to face; how they get along with the existing furniture of the buyer. "This piece is perfection but does it match the drapes?" asks The End User. For this open call we ask artists to consider perhaps the artists' biggest foe, the ubiquitous sofa as an inspiration point. We have selected a real Queen B you must yield your creative juices toward. When marrying art and furniture an interior designer might consider using shape, texture, color, repetition, negative space, scale and proportion, contrast, cultural references and more to create a harmonious relationship.
We'll make it easy on you. This exhibition will focus on Abstract Art. Using this exact pictured sofa as your muse, you may submit up to three pieces for consideration. One talented commander of client and space will be named "Sofa King."
Works must be made to pair with only the sofa pictured below.
Please review our show entry guidelines before you begin your submission. All mediums will be considered, previously exhibited works will not be accepted.
JUST DESSERTS
OPENING reception | DECEMBER 5 | 5PM - 8PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces
submissions due: 11/19, 11/20, 11/21 - 12 PM TO 4:30 PM
Humans love sugar, and therefore, like everything else we love, we idolize it, fetishize it, celebrate it, and adoringly immortalize it in art. This call asks artists to call to our lust, our fondness, our sweet tooth for dessert. Of course we are reminded of Wayne Thiebaud’s iconic elegies to the pastries he was denied in his youth, but don’t forget that frosting can be weaponized as a reminder of cultural disparity such as in the works of Yvette Mayorga. Dessert making itself is an art form that can be enjoyed in the moment--please reach out to our Gallery Director if you have a concept for the First Friday opening of this exhibit. However dessert inspires you, we ask you to submit works that address this passionate affair. Please review our show entry guidelines before you begin your submission. All mediums will be considered, previously exhibited works will not be accepted.
An important side note: holiday sales times tend to favor works that are ‘giftable’—i.e. smaller in scale, lighter in price. Our juror will not have these considerations top-of-mind, but you may want to consider them when planning your submissions.
RAW, CONCRETE
OPENING RECEPTION | FEBRUARY 6, 2026 | 5 PM TO 8 PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces
submissions due: 1/21, 1/22, 1/23 | 12 PM TO 4:30 PM
The Brutalist Movement of the 1950s-1980s got its name in part from the French phrase béton brut—”raw concrete”. It inspired artists and architects to create works that solved societal ills: income inequality, housing and food shortages, and political instability in the wake of WWII. Their achievements still sing through the decades in the forms of public housing design, modular furniture, and bold, legible typefaces. Adornment was eschewed, but beauty was not...the woodgrain texture of plywood formwork is still visibly embedded in concrete surfaces, rust is allowed to express its nature, glass is not just a window but a portal uniting inside and outside, and paint is applied with no intention of illusion. February’s call invites artists to create works influenced by Brutalism, showing us pure materials, utility and economy, and a message—either literal or implied—that what the world needs now is authenticity, raw and concrete. Please review our show entry guidelines before you begin your submission. All mediums will be considered, previously exhibited works will not be accepted.
For inspiration: the mid-century poster art of communist governments often used a limited palette, strong, simple forms, and typography that played an intentional role in the composition. This ArtRKL article by Louise Irpino includes history of the movement as well as sculpture and architecture examples.
STEP, REPEAT
OPENING reception | MARCH 6, 2026 | 5 PM TO 8 PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces
submissions due: 2/18, 2/19, 2/20 - 12 PM TO 4:30 PM
Pattern—an artistic, musical, literary, or mechanical repeating design or form—has been employed as an embellishment throughout the history of civilization, but it has achieved its own power and meaning in modern and postmodern art. No longer dismissed as ornament or ‘women’s work’, pattern can be abstracted, magnified, made into subject, or it can make a subversive statement in the hands of a contemporary artist.
This call invites artists to submit works that use a repeated pattern as an intentional, essential element. Please review our show entry guidelines before you begin your submission. All mediums will be considered, previously exhibited works will not be accepted.
Here are some artists to research for inspiration: Yayoi Kusama, Miriam Shapiro, Robert Zakanitch, Kehinde Wiley
IF YOUR WORK IS NOT ACCEPTED (or even if it is):
Please consider visiting our quarterly critique, Artist Test Kitchen.