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Open Call: 2025 Juried Hybrid Exhibition The Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA) invites all artists to submit their work to be considered for the 2025 Juried Hybrid Exhibition, juried by guest artist and editor, Nick Larsen. This hybrid exhibition will be a virtual show hosted on the MACAA website, with an option to exhibit work in-person in the gallery at the Tarble Arts Center on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. Applicants may choose if they want their work to be considered for the in-person and virtual exhibition, or the virtual option only. Because of the virtual component, we hope to encourage participation in which distance or shipping costs won't be a barrier for inclusion. We encourage all to apply, including students, grad students, independent artists, and university faculty. At Hand, At Present: MACAA Juried Hybrid Exhibition 2025, Juried by Nick Larsen. At its core, collage is a way of pulling from what already exists to imagine something that doesn't. It's about making do with what's at hand and using those limited resources to explore fantasy, fiction, speculative pasts and futures, hybridity, the impossible, and the not-yet-to-be. This layering of material--which occurs across media, including but not limited to video, sculpture, textiles and quilting, painting, and photography--opens up new possibilities for the ideas, objects, and images around us. Collage is about context or, more specifically, re-context, as the meaning of that original content shifts through repurpose, recombination, and re-imagination. Submission Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025, 11:59 PM EST Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2025 Exhibition Opens: Nov. 14, 2025 with in person and virtual receptions Virtual Juror’s Talk: Nov. 15, 2025 Virtual and In-Person Exhibition at the Tarble Arts Center on View: Nov. 14, 2025 - Jan. 31, 2026 About the Juror Nick Larsen is an artist and book editor living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He studied at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Ohio State University, where he received his MFA in Sculpture. Larsen has had over a dozen solo and collaborative exhibitions, including, most recently, Old Haunts, Lower Reaches (Nevada Museum of Art, 2024) and been a part of a number of notable group exhibitions, including several editions of New American Paintings. Since 2022, he has been the managing editor at Radius Books, a non-profit art book publisher in Santa Fe, where he has overseen the publication of over forty-five photography, fine art, architecture, and poetry books. Student Applicants STUDENT SUBMISSIONS ARE FREE We encourage students, both undergraduate and graduate, to apply to the exhibition. One student will be selected for the Student Award. When submitting an application as a student, please upload your current Spring 2025 class schedule to the last section of the entry form. Payment Details Artists may submit up to 3 works for a submission fee of $5. Details on how to make this payment are included in at the end of the submission form.
NOTE: The submission fee helps to offset costs of prizes and juror fees. We believe that financial constraints should not be a barrier to participation. If the submission fee presents a hardship, we encourage you to request a waiver by checking the box at the bottom of the form—no justification required. Our goal is to make opportunities accessible to everyone, regardless of financial circumstances.
Juror's Talk and Awards There will be three awards selected by Nick Larsen, which will be announced at the virtual Juror's Talk on Saturday, November 15. All applicants, whether accepted or not, will receive a link to join the Juror's Talk and award announcement. The three awards are as follows:
Juror's Selection - $100 + free 2 year membership to MACAA If you have questions, please contact our Virtual Exhibition Team at submitmacaa@gmail.com. |
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