2025 CALLS FOR ENTRies

OMISSION

OPENING reception | APRIL 4 | 5PM - 8PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces.
submissions due: 3/19, 3/20, 3/21 - 12 PM TO 4:30 PM

Cottonwood Center for the Arts is pleased to offer an open call for entries for the month of April, 2025: OMISSION. 

Negative space in a work of art is the space around and between the focus of the piece. That space has a form. For this call, we are asking artists to create works that celebrate the value and import of negative space, to examine quiet empty elements and elevate them to primary subject matter. Please review our show entry guidelines before you begin your submission. All mediums will be considered, previously exhibited works will not be accepted.

If you’d like inspiration, we suggest these examples:
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Reichstag
Shigeo Fukuda, various graphic design
Clarence Coles-Phillips, various graphic design

SELF STARTER

OPENING reception | JUNE 6 | 5PM - 8PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces.
submissions due: 5/21, 5/22, 5/23 - 12 PM TO 4:30 PM

The selfie has become a part of our culture that means different things for different living generations in our society. It can be an exercise in narcissism, ironically indifferent, politically poignant, or even just plain candid. For this call, we ask artists to start with a smart-phone-generated self portrait*. This digital image will be the launching point for a work of art that expresses your relationship with the world, however you define that real or virtual space. Please feel free to incorporate any other mediums that call to you. We welcome non-traditional display formats—please be thoughtful and communicative about how our curator can make your vision work IRL. 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—this article shows some interesting examples of contemporary self portraits (please note that not all of them are ‘selfies’ though, and make sure that your submission does indeed begin with an actual selfie): Artspace.com

*Do not start with a self portrait created with any other type of camera. Do not ask another person to snap the picture—it must be taken by you or with a timer set by you.

MORE 2025 CALLS COMING SOON!

IF YOUR WORK IN NOT ACCEPTED (or even if it is):
Please consider visiting our quarterly critique, Artist Test Kitchen.