Texas National 2025 Art Competition & Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: April 11 – June 22, 2025.

The Juror: Susie Kalil

Awards: 1st - $2,000; 2nd - $1,000; 3rd - $500; Honorable Mentions

Entry Fee and Procedures: One, two or three digital images may be submitted via CaFÉ for $35 entry fee at https://www.callforentry.org. Secure credit card payments can be made through CaFÉ.  

If you require additional information regarding TEXAS NATIONAL, e-mail weelynd.mcmullan@sfasu.edu.

Juror’s choices for TEXAS NATIONAL 2025 will be announced via e-mail and the CaFÉ website during the last week of February 2025. Exhibition dates are April 11 – June 22, 2025.

Shipping: Accepted work must be sent at the artist’s expense, properly and securely packed in a single reusable carton or crate (NO Styrofoam peanuts) to TEXAS NATIONAL. Works must be shipped ready for installation. All 2-D works must have hangers or be wired for hanging. Plexiglas must be used instead of glass in framing. Works must arrive by March 25, 2025 IMPORTANT RETURN SHIPPING INFORMATION: Each reusable carton or crate must include a pre-paid return-shipping label, which also includes pre-paid insurance. Detailed instructions will be sent to those artists whose works are accepted by the juror. Artists do have the option to hand-deliver/pick up work if arrangements are made in advance. ANY ARTWORKS THAT DO NOT HAVE RETURN SHIPPING, ARE ABANDONED OR NOT CLAIMED BY SEPTEMBER 20, 2025, WILL BECOME THE PROPERTY OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY.

SFA Galleries: The SFA Galleries present exhibitions of regional, national and international art to an expanding audience centered in East Texas. It maintains high security with a guard always present during gallery hours. The gallery facilitates sales but takes no commission. The gallery does not profit from the entry fees of TEXAS NATIONAL. All monies collected pay for the entire exhibition, artists’ fees, awards, and advertising.

About the Juror:

Susie Kalil is a former Core Fellow in Critical Studies at the Glassell School of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.  Over the decades, she has been a contributor to many publications including ArtNews, Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture and Cite magazines.  She also previously served as managing editor of the Texas art journal Artlies, as well as Spot magazine, Houston Center for Photography.  She is currently editor of Passage: an online magazine of Visions and Voices, published by Kirk Hopper Fine Art. For the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, she co-curated (with Barbara Rose) the landmark exhibition Fresh Paint: The Houston School, as well as The Texas Landscape: 1900-1986.

She previously served as Visual Arts Director, DiverseWorks, Houston.

Kalil has written numerous catalog essays over the years, including Bill Viola: Buried Secrets for the U.S. Commission, Venice Biennale; Barry McGee: Hoss for the Rice University exhibition; James Surls: Walking with Diamonds for the El Paso Museum of Art; Soundings: Benito Huerta for the Art Museum of South Texas; Slipstream for Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas. More recently, she curated the exhibitions and wrote catalog essays for Lynn Randolph: Between Worlds ( Lawndale ArtCenter, Houston) and Annabel Livermore: Cosmic Gardens (Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas). Her publications include Melissa Miller: Paintings and Works on paper (University of Texas Press); James Surls: From the Heartland (Grace Museum/DAP publications); Windows on the West: The Art of Frank Reaugh (Harry Ransom Center/University of Texas Press); 250 Years of Texas Art (Texas Christian University Press).

Kalil is the author of the award-winning book Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary (Texas A&M University Press) and curator of the Hogue retrospectives, which traveled to the Art Museum of South Texas, the Grace Museum and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.  She also co-curated the Hogue exhibition, which traveled to the Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is the author of Dorothy Hood: The Color of Being/El Color del Ser (Texas A&M University Press) and curator of the Hood retrospective for the Art Museum of South Texas.  Kalil is the author of the award-winning Roger Winter: Fire and Ice (Texas A&M University Press) and curator of the Winter exhibition for the National Arts Club, New York.  Her definitive monograph, Kermit Oliver: An Enduring Spirit is forthcoming from Texas A&M University Press.  

Application Requirements

Submitting Images for Jurying: All entries (information and images) will be accepted through the CaFÉ website.

1) Each entrant may submit up to three digital images of three different art works.

2) Each work must be represented by only one image (no detail views or duplicates).

Instructions on how to format images to CaFÉ specifications can be found at Image Prep.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility: TEXAS NATIONAL COMPETITION & EXHIBITION 2025 is open to all artists working in the United States. Works may be of any medium (except video and performance). All works must be original and completed within THE LAST TWO YEARS. Works too old or two large will be disqualified. No previously submitted works will be accepted. All works must be available through the entire run of the show. Do not submit works for jury that might be sold before or shown elsewhere during the TEXAS NATIONAL 2025 show time frame. Visit us at: http://www.art.sfasu.edu/cole, or apply on line at: https://www.callforentry.org/ and search for Texas National. Questions? email us at weelynd.mcmullan@sfasu.edu, or call 936-468-1131.

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS SOME THINGS HAVE CHANGED. Size Limitations: Two-dimensional works, when displayed, cannot exceed 48” in height or width, including frame. Three-dimensional works cannot exceed 60” in height, 24” in width, and 24” in depth. If a separate pedestal is sent with the work, the total height, including the pedestal, must not exceed 60”.  The weight limitation of each crated or packaged work must not exceed 50 lbs.