Call Description

The 5x5x5 Show

#Triple5

River Oaks' small art spectacle returns for 2025. The 10th Annual 5x5x5 highlights a remarkably fascinating showing of miniature works from artists across the U.S.  Guest Juror for the 2025 exhibition is artist and educator, Ross Jahnke. River Oaks is inviting all visual artists to participate in this annual miniature feature. The 5x5x5 Show is a signature event for the Arts Center, allowing patrons to purchase unique, original works of art for holiday gifting or as additions to their expanding collections.

Guest Juror - Ross Jahnke

Ross Jahnke's work focuses on oil painting and printmaking, particularly woodcut prints and silkscreen prints. What unifies all the works is his  conceptual approach to the figure and woodgrain as a tool to invigorate and delineate space.

Jahnke is widely recognized as a printmaker and a painter but he didn’t always want to pursue both concentrations in the arts. Having studied painting and drawing as an undergraduate and even in graduate school, Jahnke was coaxed into taking a printmaking course by another graduate assistant. By the time he graduated, he had expressively mixed the two media. “If a painting is like a symphony orchestra, then a print is like a string quartet. The music is no less complex or compelling but it is made with more limited means, and demands more from each of its component parts. I relish the challenge of printmaking where the visual and conceptual vocabulary is dictated by the process, and I need to problem-solve steps ahead to achieve an outcome,” says Jahnke.

Jahnke is currently a full-time Professor of Art at Nicholls State University and teaches printmaking, color theory, and papermaking.

Exhibition Specs: 

●  2D and 3D works accepted.

●  Open to all media

●  Original works only

●  3 entries max per artist

●  $15 artist entry fee

Awards:

• Best in Show $500
• Beck Crowell Creative Award $100
• 2 Merit Awards $100 each
• Honorable Mention

5x5x5 Guidelines:

●  Image size should be no larger than 5x5 or 25 square inches.

●  Three dimensional work should stay with in the same size range 5”h x 5”w x 5”d - open to all media.

●  Original works only. No prints (reproductions). Etchings/woodcuts accepted.

●  Open to all media

●  When/if matting, the mat should be off-white or white in color. No exaggerated matting.  No frame and mat size over 11x14 in.   

●  There are no color or material restrictions for framing.  No frame and mat size over 11x14 in.   Framing should suite the piece and be ready to hang. Please no saw tooth hangers, wired is preferred method.

●  Applicants are allowed to submit 1 - 3 (max) entries.  One image per entry.  Please do not submit more than one image for a piece.  

●  ALL SPECS SHOULD BE FOLLOWED IN ORDER TO BE INCLUDED.

●  River Oaks receives a 30% commission on works sold. ALL WORKS must be for sale.

•The price of your artwork entered into the Cafe system for this call will be the price of your artwork in the exhibition and the online virtual show.  We cannot change the price of the piece if it is accepted into the 5x5x5. All data is downloaded from CaFE to generate label information for both the virtual & onsite shows.  Please make sure your title and price are listed accordingly. 

●  ROSAC reserves the right to photograph exhibited work/utilize digital images for reproduction in both printed and electronic materials for publicity.

Shipping:

Artists are responsible for shipping/insurance costs to/from the Art Center. Please have accepted artwork delivered by 5 pm Friday, November 1. Shipments can arrive with return shipping label, however, If no return label is included, the art center will contact you in the event your entry did not sell.  You will have two options: Forward a return shipping label via email or allow the entry to remain in River Oak’s Gallery Gift Shop following the featured exhibition. Gift shop inventory - 30% commission rate will still apply. Entries will be returned in the same wrapping in which they were received (no peanuts please).

Ross Jahnke Workshop
More info coming soon. 

Call (318) 473-2670 to pre-register.

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5x5x5 Show Dates:

●  Deadline to Enter: 10/18/25

●  Jury Acceptance Notification: 10/24/25

●  Deadline for Shipping: 11/4/25

●  Exhibition Opening Reception/Awards Presentation: 11/13/25

●  Exhibition Dates: 11/13/25 - 2/7/26

●  Return Shipment of Unsold Works: After 3/15/2026

No entry payment refunds.

Application Requirements

5x5x5 Guidelines:

●  Image size should be no larger than 5x5 or 25 square inches.

●  Three dimensional work should stay with in the same size range 5”h x 5”w x 5”d - open

to all media.

●  Original works only. No prints (reproductions). Etchings/woodcuts accepted.

●  Open to all media

●  When/if matting, the mat should be off-white or white in color. No exaggerated matting.  No frame and mat size over 11x14 in.   

●  There are no color or material restrictions for framing.  No frame and mat size over 11x14 in.   Framing should suite the piece and be ready to hang. Please no saw tooth hangers, wired is preferred method.

●  Applicants are allowed to submit 1 - 3 (max) entries. ONLY ONE IMAGE per entry.  Please do not submit more than one image for a piece.  

●  ALL SPECS SHOULD BE FOLLOWED IN ORDER TO BE INCLUDED.

●  River Oaks receives a 30% commission on works sold. ALL WORKS must be for sale.

●  The price of your artwork entered into the Cafe system for this call will be the price of your artwork in the exhibition and the online virtual show.  We cannot change the price of the piece if it is accepted into the 5x5x5. All data is downloaded from CaFE to generate label information for the virtual & onsite exhibitions.  Please make sure your title and price are listed accordingly. 

●  ROSAC reserves the right to photograph exhibited work/utilize digital images for reproduction in both printed and electronic materials for publicity.

Eligibility Criteria

The call is open to any visual artist currently living/working in the Untied States.  Entered work must have been completed within the past year.

●  2D and 3D works accepted.

●  Open to all media

●  Original works only

●  One image per entry 

●  3 entries max

●  $15 artist entry fee