calls to artists
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Gallery Exhibitions:
We invite artists to submit their artwork for consideration for future shows. Emailed submissions should be sent to: [email protected] (Before submitting, please review directions for submitting artwork.) We are currently accepting submissions for the SPA exhibits and opportunities listed below. Check back for more shows and opportunities. Shows & Opportunities: Marked Tattoo and graffiti art are accessible, transitory, subversive art forms that developed on unconventional canvases, outside gallery and museum walls. They are characterized by intricate designs, use of iconography, and often express identity, affiliation, and current culture, giving voice to the dispossessed. Marked asks artists working in all mediums to consider the themes, symbols and concepts found in tattoo and graffiti art. Think of the way these art forms claim space, express character, reveal community, demonstrate association. Because these types of art are found in nontraditional spaces that are both public and private, sanctioned and unsanctioned, artists might also consider the ephemeral, vulnerable, shifting, layered, evolving, confrontational, unexpected, unpretentious aspects of art found in these real world settings. Art that can be celebratory and enhancing or painful. Art that covers or obscures, to create beauty where none existed, or to hide a scar, imperfection or past identity that is no longer accurate or to purpose. Consider that some tattoos were made with needle and thread dipped in pigment, graffiti artists layer over one another’s work in collaboration or confrontation, and for each art form, throughout history, there have been cultural norms and laws broken in their making. We are envisioning a show that includes 2-D and 3-D works in a variety of traditional and nontraditional media, including photography though it will not be a major focus for our selections. Exhibit Dates: March 11 – April 18, 2026 Deadline for Entries: Sat., January 31, 2026 ---- Milk Cans, Bees & Maple Trees Vermont is home to small-scale, organic family farms and major industrial operations. Over the years, Vermont tourism publications and organizations have promoted a romantic farm ideal in order to attract visitors and some have even coined the term “Ver-Moment” to encapsulate the visual charm of simpler times. At the same time, farms have diversified into new food stuffs, ecotourism, and farm to table marketing relationships. Many Vermont farms help to feed local communities, participate in farmers markets, support schools and food banks. Recent natural disasters like floods and drought, coupled with changes in federal economic programs like grants for water quality improvements and changes in price supports forecast a challenging future. We are facing a darker side to the experience of farming involving financial uncertainty, family stresses, climate change and catastrophe, worker exploitation, pollution and other associated challenges and risks. Show us the beauty but help us understand the reality and ripple effect of farming in our state as you see it. Exhibit Dates: April 29 – June 13, 2026 Deadline for Entries: Sat., March 14, 2026 ---- All Aboard! This show is about all kinds of transportation – trains, trucks and various street vehicles, bicycles, airplanes, hot air balloons, and imaginative, fantasy transportation. It’s a dynamic show about movement and change. The show will include installations, traditional and nontraditional media. Exhibit Dates: June 24 – August 14, 2026 Deadline for Entries: May 9, 2026 ---- Solo Shows Inviting Solo & Small Group Shows: Calendar Year 2026 SPA uses its second and third floor space for solo and small group shows. We encourage artists to submit a proposal to SPA for consideration of such a show. (Please visit SPA to determine whether this space would be ideal for your show proposal.) Submit: A brief written statement about yourself or the artist group and what you want to accomplish with a show with 8-12 images of representative work (please label this information carefully with the name, media, size, price and date of your work). If there is a time of year that you prefer, please note this on your proposal. You may make your submission via email to: [[email protected]] Subject Line: 2nd/3rd fl Galleries Exhibit Dates: SPA will fill various exhibition timeframes (typically 6-7 weeks in length) from late Jan-November, 2027 Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2026 ---- Quick Change Gallery at SPA Calendar Year 2026 SPA has a small gallery made from a vintage telephone booth on its second floor called the Quick Change Gallery that is used for informal, short-term exhibits. Work exhibited in this spaces is unframed and pinned/clipped on a bulletin board-type surface. Inquiries are accepted throughout the year. Please submit your query to: [[email protected]] and write this in the subject line of your email: Quick Change Gallery. ---- Other Opportunities: 2026 SPA mounts art shows in spaces outside the art center in Barre City, including "159 North Main" (the AR Market - Pearl Street Pizza address) and the Morse Block (Morse Block Deli site). Inquiries are accepted throughout the year. Please submit your query to: [[email protected]] and write this in the subject line of your email: SPA Art Spaces. |
Directions for Submitting Artwork:
Group Shows Submissions should include the following:
How to Submit: Please email your submission materials to: [email protected] (Please Note: SPA will send an email to you within 3 business days to let you know your application was received via email. Sometimes there are issues with email service. If you do not hear from us, please call us or send another email.) Submission Fee: $10 Submission Fee for Non-Members (free for members) Pay Online: Other Ways to Submit Your Artwork and Payment: Physical materials (CDs & thumbdrives) and submission fees can be mailed or delivered to: Studio Place Arts 201 North Main Street Barre, VT 05641 *Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your materials returned after review. Checks should be made out to "Studio Place Arts". Art Delivery Art delivery days and times are typically scheduled for the Monday and Tuesday, the week before the new show starts. We understand that sometimes it's difficult for artists to deliver on the scheduled days; please let us know in advance and we will do our best to schedule an alternative day/time for art delivery. Artists are responsible for expenses associated with shipping work to and from SPA for shows. Freedom of Expression Policy at SPA Approved in 2004, the SPA exhibition policy is the only one of its type in Vermont. Click HERE for the SPA Freedom of Expression Policy. Questions? Call: (802) 479-7069 or Email: [email protected] 
Exhibit by Ann Young in 2023 at "159 North Main," one of the local sites near SPA where we present art shows.
Enjoying a granite sculpture by Sophia Bettman-Kerson on display in the annual Rock Solid exhibit.
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