Call Detail

It's OK, But It Ain't Right
https://www.woodwardcontemporary.com

Call Overview

Entry Deadline: 8/15/25
Days remaining to deadline: 14

Entry Fee (Entry Fee): $40.00
Media Fee(Additional Media Fee): $10.00

Work Sample Requirements


Images | Minimum:Min. 2, Maximum:Max. 4
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 2, Maximum:Max. 4
Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: National
State: California
Event Dates: 8/27/26 - 9/27/26
Jury Dates: 8/16/26 - 8/18/26

Call Description

It’s Ok, But It Ain't Right” explores the space between complacency and confrontation - the grey zones of acceptance, dysfunction, and dissonance. This exhibition seeks work that challenges what we tolerate, what we overlook, and what we know in our gut doesn’t sit right — socially, politically, emotionally, or personally.

We invite artists to respond to this theme with interpretations that are raw, humorous, critical, or subtle. Whether it’s a quiet resistance or a loud refusal, we want to see work that speaks to the things we’ve come to accept... but shouldn’t. 

Color palettes that clash but sing. Those bold, rule-breaking combinations that shouldn’t work, but do because of energy and contradiction.

Accepted (and non-accepted) artists will be notified as of August 19, 2025

Exhibition will open to the public on August 27, 2025

Opening Reception for the Artists: August 30, 6 - 9PM

Exhibition will end on September 27, 2025

Application Requirements

  • Minimum Art Size: no side less than 10 inches
  • Maximum Art Size:  52 inches in either direction
  • Maximum Weight: 40 pounds
  • Sculpture Max Height: 30’’ or less
  • Sculpture Max Weight: 100 pounds

Eligibility Criteria

 

  • Open to artists 18 years and older
  • Entries must be original and created entirely by the artist. No digital art, workshop/class art, or reproductions will be accepted
  • Only one painting per artist will be juried into the exhibition