Mi·cro·cosm: Group Micro Art Gallery Exhibit
How small can you work and still maintain your style? Find out! This national open call will feature a group of artists, and each artist will have a solo show, but there’s a catch! The solo show will be in a box gallery that is 12” x 12” x 12”
TAKE PRIDE: Hair & Fiber
Explorations of how fiber can be used to reflect the interweaving of community while still representing artifice, facade, pride, protection or disguise are all welcome interpretations and valid explorations during Pride month. All media welcome, made of or depicting hair.
SPIRALING: Eco-Art for Kid’s Sake
This open call judged exhibition seeks to showcase innovative “green” eco-art works and aligns with Plastic-free July, seeking to inspire action and social change through the use of found objects, repurposed for art.
Stories from the Soul: Emerging Curator Exhibition
Emerging Curator Exhibition: Stories from the Soul is an innovative art exhibition designed to foster meaningful dialogue between artists of diverse backgrounds. Curated by OPAL Artist Resident alum Shanelle Harrison, this show will feature five invited artists whose works reflect personal narratives, cultural heritage, and unique life experiences.
FASHION: Artist Member Show
During OPAL’s Fall Fundraiser, the work by current OPAL members on the gallery walls will create a rich backdrop of creative expression, epitomizing OPAL’s mission and reflecting our unique artistic community. Artists will interpret the multiple meanings of the word ‘fashion’ - the concept of fashion, the verb to fashion, to create in your own unique style an artwork that can only be made by you and is immediately recognizable as your work.
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Abstract Alternatives to Depicting Our World
Whether your art is inspired by the implications of quantum physics, metaphysics, spirituality, formal design or any combination we invite you to submit your abstract explorations of art to this national juried exhibition.
Art for Social Change: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
This open call judged exhibit asks; what are your best or strongest memories about food, or eating in community? What are your feelings about food and how can they be conveyed in an artwork to continue the long tradition of food as subject? All media welcome.
Holiday Bazaar & Legacy Show
This is a group show scheduled alongside talks and professional development workshops for living artists to consider and plan their artistic legacy.
Artists and collectors also experience a pop-up Holiday Bazaar with guest vendors and month-long artists exhibiting works priced for giving.
POSE! Juried Figure Exhibition
This juried exhibition seeks to showcase a diverse spectrum of work based on the human form yet pushing the boundaries of how we depict ourselves and the bodies we inhabit.
Opening Reception and Awards
Saturday, March 15, 1-4pm
Jurors:
Artist Susan Hall & William Ewers, Executive Director of Palette & Chisel
The Cabinet of Secret Art
The show is and open call and is not judged. It is structured to provide a safe, anonymous environment to explore “secret paintings” within a supportive and curious community.
The works will be revealed along with an anonymous reading of their stories and hung during a live performance in front of an audience.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
This is an open call for recent artwork inspired by new beginnings with a special emphasis on works in progress. Show your process and share something that may feel risky and unfinished.
