UPCOMING CALLS FOR ENTRies

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 two world wars. 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

ENTROPY

OPENING RECEPTION | APRIL 3, 2026 | 5 PM TO 8 PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces
submissions due: 03/18, 03/19, 03/20 | 12 PM TO 4:30 PM

ENTROPY: lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.

The old tree may tumble in a storm. It may knock out the power. The junk drawer isn't likely to remain orderly. The lawn that needs mowed and edged, or it will consume the sidewalk and go to seed.

Your hair will get tangled. It will get dirty. 

The windows you clean will be water spotted after the next rain, the dust will settle on the shelf you wiped. When the days get short and cold the leaves will fall, they will not fall carefully. 

The manicured garden will grow wild if not minded. The parking lot of the empty strip mall will crack and grow its own garden, without care for arrangement.

For this open call for entries we are asking artists to consider entropy, and the concept of disorder as the eventual natural state of the world. It is in the nature of humanity to want to create sequence, structure, patterns, and lines. We are asking you as an artist to share an interpretation of the delight that can be found in the opposite - the jumble and disarray that is the eventual evolution of all order.

Please review our show entry guidelines before you begin your submission. All mediums will be considered, previously exhibited works will not be accepted.

FANTASTIC MR. ANDERSON

OPENING RECEPTIONS | DECEMBER 4, 2026 | 5 PM TO 8 PM AND ALSO JANUARY 1, 2027 | 5 PM TO 8 PM
$30 total intake fee for up to 3 pieces
submissions due: 11/11, 11/12, 11/13 | 12 PM TO 4:30 PM

If you know the films directed by Wes Anderson, then chances are good that you’ve had the pleasingly haunted experience of noticing a ‘Wes Anderson-esque’ scene in real life. His aesthetic is unmistakable…there is a color palette, a mood, a narrative that reminds us of those brief moments when we recognize something remarkable, magical, and perhaps fleeting as special places yield to gentrification, homogenization, and fading history. In December, we invite artists to document a Wes Anderson moment, either by capturing an apt image of a place/portrait/object and/or by creating fan art relating to Anderson’s filmography. This is an adventure. 

To reminisce about props and costumes from Anderson’s films, check out this New York Times article about an exhibit at Cinémathèque Française.

Please review our show entry guidelines before you begin your submission. All mediums will be considered, previously exhibited works will not be accepted.

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