HOW TO SUBMIT

Submissions will be accepted exclusively via CAfÉ (www.callforentry.org)

All technical submission issues will be handled by CAfÉ technical support. Find answers to most common questions and contact information here. The phone line and email address are monitored and responded too quickly between the hours of 8.30 - 5pm Mountain Time, Monday to Friday. Messages sent outside of these times are responded to the next working day.

Artists experiencing last-minute technical difficulties with their submission preventing them from submitting before the deadline must contact CAfÉ tech support or Oceanside Museum of Art (katie@oma-online.org) before the deadline and submission will be processed the day after submissions closed.

CAfÉ is an all-in-one artist submission platform designed for the arts field that is not owned by or affiliated with Oceanside Museum of Art. 

JURORS

Lead juror John Seed is an independent curator, and professor emeritus of art and art history at Mount San Jacinto College in Southern California. He has written about art and artists for publications including the Huffington Post, Art Ltd, Arts of Asia, Hyperallergic, and Sotheby’s Asia. Seed has taught Modernism at Art Center College of Design and Theory and Criticism for the MFA program at Laguna College of Art and Design. He holds a BA with Distinction in Studio Art from Stanford University and an MA in Painting from UC Berkeley. His groundbreaking book Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World explored how the rise of the internet coincided with the emergence of disruption in representational art. As a curator he has organized shows for commercial galleries including Stanek Gallery, Principle Gallery, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, and Arcadia Contemporary. 

Aleah Chapin (b. 1986 Whidbey Island, WA) is a painter whose direct portrayals of the human form have expanded the conversation around western culture’s representations of the body in art. She has exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including Flowers Gallery (New York, London, Hong Kong), The Belvedere Museum (Vienna), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), and the National Portrait Gallery (London). Chapin has attended residencies at the Leipzig International Art Program (Germany) and MacDowell (United States). She is a recipient of the Willard L. Metcalf Promising Young Painters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), three grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Canada), a Postgraduate Fellowship from the New York Academy of Art, and won the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery (London). She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art (New York) and a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle). Chapin’s work has been published extensively, including New American Paintings, Juxtapoz, Vice, ArtMaze Magazine, Huffington Post, The Seattle Times and The Sunday Times of London. Most recently, her work has been featured in More Disruption: Representational Art In Flux written by John Seed and published by Schiffer. Aleah Chapin lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Timothy Robert Smith is a painter and public artist, using realism and shifting perspective to create cinematic stories that explore our perception of reality. He is known for his murals that feature larger-than-life characters in extreme perspectives, incorporating recognizable city structures into warped, kaleidoscopic landscapes. He has created many works for public spaces, including a mural for a new football stadium for the Jacksonville Jaguars (2023), and a 101 Freeway underpass mural in Salinas for the Clean California project (2023). In 2018, he created an immersive “walk-through painting” for the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) that combined oil painting with sculpture, lights, sounds and video. His work has shown in solo exhibitions at TEDx Conferences, Bergamot Station, the A+D Museum, and MOAH; and has been featured in many media outlets, including Juxtapoz, Artillery, NBC, and KCRW, and a new book in print More Disruption: Representational Art In Flux by John Seed.