Days remaining to deadline: 29
Entry Fee (Entry Fee): $35.00
Media Fee(Media Fee): $5.00
Images | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 3
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 1, Maximum:Max. 3
Eligibility: National
State: California
Open Call for mid-career level Artists: Frontier Futurism
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Exhibition Dates: June 25 - July 12, 2025
Location: Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, California
Frontier Futurism is a curated exhibition exploring the evolving mythologies of the American West through a contemporary vision, where desert landscapes merge with visions of the future and environmental reflection. As the horizon of the West shifts, what new stories emerge from its dust?
We seek works from mid-career artists who challenge and reimagine Western narratives through a range of media, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, textile, and mixed media. This exhibition aims to disrupt the hyper-masculine, colonialist tropes embedded in the myth of the West by inviting softer, more expansive visions of the frontier — speculative, queer, diasporic, and ecologically attuned.
Themes may include (but are not limited to):
- New mythologies of the American West
- Eco-futurism and climate narratives
- Reimagined wild west in contemporary or minimalistic design
- Diasporic identities in Western landscapes
- Post-cowboy iconography
- Dream states and desert mysticism
We encourage applications from artists of all backgrounds, especially those from historically underrepresented communities.
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Juried by: Ruth Price (Desert Design Week)
Application Requirements
To Apply: Please submit the following through this application platform.
- Work must not exceed 24" in all directions
- Work must be professionally wired and ready to hang
- instagram or website link
- Up to 3 images of recent work
- Optional: Description of how your work engages with the exhibition themes (max 150 words)
Please upload a CLEAR, well-lit image, cropped to the edges. Include your name and the name of your piece in the following file name format: eg. “Jane_Doe_Sunset”
Eligibility Criteria
Accepted media: painting, printmaking, sculpture, textile, and mixed media. No photography or glass media at this time.
ARTWORK REQUIREMENTS | All work must be original, unsold work, & the artist must own the sole copyright to the art. All artwork selected must remain available for sale for the entirety of the Exhibition.