New Calls for Art. Click on the image for full details:
Liftoff
January 6–31, 2026
Reception: Friday, Jan 9, 5–7pm
Submission deadline: Thursday, Jan 1, 2026
As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Cultural Center, we are taking this milestone as an opportunity to reflect on our mission, reimagine our role, and realign our programming to better serve the vibrant community we cherish. Our 2026 Open Members’ Show will embody this spirit of thoughtful evolution. While all members will continue to be guaranteed one piece in the exhibition through an open call, this year those works will be presented in our Vault, Board Room, and Skylight galleries—ensuring every artist’s voice is honored and celebrated.
After The Leaves Have Gone
Opening: Monday, Feb 9, 2026
Entry deadline: Saturday, Jan 31, 2026
Now the Leaves Have Gone invites artists to celebrate the bright, invigorating clarity that winter uniquely reveals. When the leaves fall away, the world sharpens: colors intensify and that seasonal light slices cleanly across landscape and architecture. We’re seeking artworks that embrace this crisp optimism — paintings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, textiles, digital works, and everything in between. Surprise us with how winter’s pared-back beauty sparks joy, energy, or renewal – what emerges when the world is stripped to essentials. Artists of all backgrounds and disciplines are warmly encouraged to submit and help illuminate the season.
Awards: 1st Place – $300, 2nd Place – $200, 3rd Place – $100
Frame By Frame
Opening: Friday Feb 27, 2026
Entry deadline: Sunday, Feb 15, 2026
Frame by Frame invites photographers to capture the pulse of life in the Cultural Center's new online exhibition. We’re looking for images that vibrate with motion, energy, and nighttime possibility—the blur of streetlights, the pulse of a crowd, your favorite city in motion. And most importantly, we want people in these frames: figures, family, and friends – in motion, gestures caught mid-story, characters who seem to continue living beyond the image. Imagine a single frame cut from a film – singular and separate, perhaps telling a fleeting story. All and every style is welcome!
Awards: 1st Place – $300, 2nd Place – $200, 3rd Place – $100
Clay & Color: Red Planet Resonance
February 3–28, 2026
Entry deadline: Saturday, Jan 17, 2026
What happens when fire, earth, and imagination collide with the mysteries of Mars?
Clay & Color: Red Planet Resonance invites ceramic artists, sculptors, and surface designers to explore the chromatic and conceptual possibilities inspired by the Red Planet. Think oxidized reds, iron-rich glazes, cratered forms, and the bold spirit of extraterrestrial exploration. This exhibition is curated by Anne Thiam, a ceramic artist whose work distills the essence of lived experience into sculptural form.