Submission Requirements

In these fractured times it can be comforting to find a place to belong, a home. Home embodies a sense of belonging, comfort, security, and a space to nurture relationships and memories, serving as a sanctuary and a foundation for personal growth and identity. 

This call asks artists to consider where you belong, where does your spirit feel at home.  How does your artwork represent the feeling of home?

 All submitted works must be created by the hand of the artist, including- but not limited to: silver gelatin; platinum/palladium; albumen; cyanotype; gum bichromate; wet-plate collodion; photo gravure; carbon; vandyke brown; traditional printmaking; instant transfers and lifts,  hand-manipulated (altered surface) digital prints, and other alternative and historic printing processes.  Combinations of these processes are welcome.  

The use of digital negatives in creating these processes is acceptable, although straight inkjet (digital) prints and AI-derived works are not eligible. All entries must be hand-made prints made by the artist and created in the last 4 years.  

Light Art Space invites LBGTQ, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and self-identifying artists of color - historically under-represented artists working in the visual arts – to submit.
 
Work needs to arrive at the gallery ready to hang but framing is not required. Magnets, clips, and other methods can be used. Artists must include instructions for alternative presentations. 

Juror: Annie Lopez

Juror Bio:

An active member of the Phoenix, Arizona art scene since 1982, Annie Lopez has consistently created new bodies of narrative work exploring a variety of subjects. Her art reflects her experiences through the use of family photographs, vintage “found” photos, personal letters and stories. She is most known for her use of cyanotype, an archival photographic printing process. Lopez engages the viewer with photographs, prints, storytelling and dresses made of paper which often make poignant statements with a sense of humor. She has exhibited her work in numerous venues across the nation, including the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, Shelburne Museum in Vermont, and the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. She was selected to represent Arizona in the exhibition, “Paper Routes-Women To Watch 2020” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Her work is in the collection of the Phoenix Art Museum; Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina; Arizona State University Museum; The Tucson Museum of Art; The National Hispanic Cultural Center in New Mexico; and the cities of Phoenix, Tempe and Glendale, Arizona. For seventeen years, Lopez was a member of the nationally recognized Chicano arts organization, Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado (MARS). She has received a number of awards for her work, including a Governor's Arts Award and Mayor’s Arts Award and in 2021, was honored with a Congressional Commendation.

Important Dates:

June 21st, midnight Mountain time - deadline for submitted work
June 25th - notification of acceptance via email
July 17th - work due at Light Art Space
July 24th - opening day
Reception: Friday, July 25th, 5-7 pm 
September 20th, 2025 final day of the exhibition

Entry fee: $35 for 3 images

$5 for each additional image up to 10 images total
Full-time Student Discount: $20 use coupon: Student

 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. All artwork will remain in the exhibition through September 20th, 2025 unless sold.

Application Requirements

All entries must be hand-made prints made with alternative photographic processes and created in the last 4 years.  All prints must be hand printed by the artist.  

Acceptable processes include, but are not limited to, Cyanotype, Gum Bichromate, Van Dyke, Palladium/Platinum, Photopolymer Gravure, Copper Plate Gravure, Salt, Tintype, Silver Gelatin, Chemigrams, Phytograms, Lumens, Chromogenic prints, Hand applied emulsions, Photo-encaustic, Carbon, Gumoil, Instant transfers and lifts, and Hand-manipulated (altered surface) digital prints. Combinations of these processes are welcome.  Digital photographic images can be used in combination with other processes, but straight digital prints will not be accepted, with an exception made for lumen where the unfixed originals can not be safely exhibited.  3D and experimental work is encouraged. The use of digital negatives in creating these processes is acceptable, as are surface manipulated digital prints. Straight digital prints and AI-derived works are not eligible. 

Eligibility Criteria

Artists 18 years of age and older are eligible.