This call asks artists to consider uncertain and changing boundaries in their work and lives. Many types of boundaries can be referenced: social, personal, and artistic, to name a few. Social boundaries can be thought of as objectified forms of social differences manifested in unequal access to and unequal distribution of resources (material and nonmaterial) and social opportunities. Personal boundaries can be emotional, physical, or even digital. Artistic or creative boundaries can be stylistic, cognitive, material, and aesthetic. Each artist is encouraged to challenge themselves while having fun with the concept.

Submission Requirements

All entries must be handmade prints printed by the artist using traditional printmaking and/or photographic processes and created in the last 5 years.  3D and experimental work is encouraged. Any combination of processes may be employed including but not limited to silkscreen, letterpress, calligraphy, etching, woodcut, lithography, linocut, drypoint, mezzotint, monoprint, polymer plates, silver gelatin prints, photopolymer gravure, copperplate gravure, cyanotype, vandyke, gumbichromate, palladium, platinum, carbon, salt, wet plate, chemigram, lumen, argrotype, oilprint, chlorophyll, instant transfers, and lifts. AI generated images will not be accepted.

**Digital photographic images can be used in combination with other processes, but straight digital prints will not be accepted. 

Work needs to arrive at the gallery ready to hang but framing is not required. Magnets, clips, and other methods can be used.  

Juror: Juana Estrada Hernández

Juana Estrada Hernández channels her experience growing up as an immigrant in the United States into drawing and print media that address political and social issues pertaining to communities of Latinx migrants. Mexican culture and folklore, pop culture, and her family’s migration stories inspire her artistic output.

Juana Estrada Hernández was born in Luis Moya, Zacatecas, Mexico. She received her BFA in Printmaking from Fort Hays State University in Kansas in 2018 and her MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2021. She is currently teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design as Assistant Professor of Printmaking.

Sponsored by the Southwest Print Fiesta, Silver City, NM

First Place                            $300
Second Place                       $200
Third Place                           $100

Important Dates:

September 11th - Midnight Mountain time deadline for submitted work

September 15th– Notification via email

October 1st- Work due at Light Art Space

October 10th – Nov. 9th, 2024 Exhibition dates
Friday, October 11th, 5 - 7 pm.  Reception, Juror talk 5:30 followed by Tyler Green Artist talk at 6:30

Entry Fee:

Entry fee: $35 for 5 images. $5 for each additional image. 
Sliding scale discount: Use coupon code: disc    $20 for 5 images. 
Artists may enter up to 10 artworks.  

Light Art Space invites all to submit; including Black, Latina, Indigenous people, and all self-identifying people of color - historically under-represented artists working in the visual arts. 

 Sales:

Sales are encouraged but artwork need not be for sale. Light Art Space will retain a 50% commission on any artwork sold. The sale price on the entry form must include commission and cannot be changed after acceptance. All artwork will remain in the exhibition through November 9th, 2024.
 

Application Requirements

Submission Requirements

All entries must be handmade prints (made by the artist) using traditional printmaking and/or photographic processes and created in the last 5 years.  3D and experimental work is encouraged. Any combination of processes may be employed including but not limited to silkscreen,  letterpress, calligraphy, etching, woodcut, lithography, linocut, drypoint, mezzotint, monoprint, polymer plates, silver gelatin prints, photopolymer gravure, copperplate gravure, cyanotype, vandyke, gum bichromate, palladium, platinum, carbon, salt, wet plate, chemigram, lumen, argrotype, oilprint, chlorophyll, instant transfers, and lifts. **Digital photographic images can be used in combination with other processes, but straight digital prints will not be accepted.  Work needs to arrive at the gallery ready to hang but framing is not required. Magnets, clips, and other methods can be used. 

*AI generated images will not be accepted.

**Digital photographic images can be used in combination with other processes, but straight digital prints will not be accepted. 

Work must arrive at the gallery ready to hang but framing is not required. Magnets, clips, and other methods can be used.  

Eligibility Criteria

All artists making handmade prints are eligible to apply.