Art & Ecology Online Exhibition

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts

Juried by Obi Kaufmann

March 20 to April 31 @ ohanloncenter.org

Please submit online through CaFE. 

Creating a profile on CaFE is free but there is a submission/jury fee for this show.

Submissions accepted February 14 to March 13 by 11:00 pm Pacific Time.

Artists will be notified via email by March 17 at 5pm Pacific of jury results.

Our online shows are finely curated and the work is professionally displayed in sections "walls." See our past online shows HERE.

Show Description:

Ecology is the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them.

How does art express this relationship?
Does your art put viewers in touch with the natural world and their relationship to it?
Does your work address the hopes and fears, realities and fantasies of planet earth and its organisms’ survival and adaptability?

We look forward to seeing your works that address the subject of Ecology including the topic of climate change and environmental resilience.

Each artist may submit up to 3 images of individual pieces of artwork for consideration into this juried show. All media welcome except video. YES, photography, fiber, sculpture, mixed media, installations, digital art etc. Diptychs and Triptychs are considered 1 piece of work. Diptychs and Triptychs must be submitted as one image. 

• Submissions fees to O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: $40 for NON-Members
• $30 for O’Hanlon Members – Coupon Codes OH30 at check out If you require financial assistance, please let the office know. We have a limited number of partial scholarships: office@ohanloncenter.org.
• Or join as a NEW member now at the Artist level for $140/1 year and get a free submission.  Email the office for a coupon code after you join: office@ohanloncenter.org.  NOTE emails not monitored on weekends so you must join before March10, 2023 to receive the discount code.
• Work does NOT need to be for sale.
• Art created with artificial intelligence tools is not being considered for this show.
• Show will be archived after close on our website.  Visit:https://www.ohanloncenter.org/exhibits/past-exhibits/

Deadline for Submissions is Sunday March 13, 2023 by 11 pm Pacific Time.

Artists will be notified of jury results by email by 5pm Friday March 17, 2023 5pm.

For accepted works: We create a digital catalog of the show and take the description of your work off your submission.  Please be sure to include a description of each work and double check prices and titles.

Contemporary, exploratory, and/or experimental entries encouraged. 

There will be a zoomed Roundtable art discussion to celebrate the show on Tuesday, March 21 at 4 pm Pacific time open to all.  The Zoom link will be emailed to selected artist and available on OHCA Website.

ABOUT THE JUROR: Obi Kaufmann

In the award winning and best-selling field atlases of Obi Kaufmann, science, and art blend to illuminate the multifaceted array of California’s natural world, forming a uniquely elemental narrative based on the shaping forces of earth, air, fire, and water, connecting systems like no other series of books has done before.

In his artful yet analytical books, Obi Kaufmann explores the transformation of California’s resource landscape from its ancient origins through its modern challenges to its future possibilities. In his lively presentations which feature paintings, hand-drawn maps, and other data, Obi presents the story of how we learn from the deep past to uncover the truth about all possible futures. Through the parsing of what he calls Ecological Philosophy, Obi employs literature and poetry, the history of the physical sciences, and indigenous-traditional ecological knowledge to present the rhetorical and epistemological theories of Consilience (the marriage of science and art), Aesthetics (the transmission of meaning through media), and Complexity (the functional description of emergent phenomena).

Obi’s website.

Postcard Art: Bob Hemstock

Application Requirements

Works previously shown at the O'Hanlon Gallery ONLINE are not eligible for consideration.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all artists all over the globe ages 16 and better.