Call Detail
Call Overview
Days remaining to deadline: 62
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
Eligibility: National
State: California
Event Dates: 7/18/26 - 8/15/26
Jury Dates: 6/21/26 - 6/24/26
Call Description
“The Weight of Air”
Juror: Cathrine Edlinger-Kunze
Even though air is invisible, it shapes how we experience every place we enter. Temperature, humidity, light, sound, and even memory fill the atmosphere around us. This exhibition looks for artworks that make viewers feel the emotional or physical presence of air—its weight, its stillness, or its movement.
Rather than showing air directly, the artworks reveal it through atmosphere:
- drifting light
- quiet landscapes
- fog or haze
- subtle motion
- traces of human presence.
Together, these works explore the emotional essence of place—how environments carry mood, memory, and sensation. A room, a landscape, or even an empty space can feel heavy, calm, tense, or sacred depending on the atmosphere surrounding it.
By translating the unseen qualities of air into visual, spatial, or sensory experiences, the artists invite viewers to become more aware of the environments they inhabit and the invisible forces that shape our perception of place.
Important Dates:
Accepted (and non-accepted) artists will be notified as June 25, 2026
Opening Reception for the Artists: July 18, 2026 from 6 to 9pm
Exhibition will end on August 15, 2026
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’’
- Sculpture Max Weight: 100 pounds
- Artwork must be for sale
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