/THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL COLLEGE SHOW
A Juried Exhibition
ArtsWorcester at the Davis Art Gallery
Submission Deadline: December 18, 2024
Drop off at ArtsWorcester: January 30 - February 2, 2025, or earlier by appointment
Exhibition Run: February 13 - April 13, 2025
The Twenty-First Annual College Show is a juried exhibition open to all undergraduate college students studying or residing in Massachusetts, in any major. The deadline to submit online is December 18 at midnight. Notifications will be made by January 10, 2025. Cash prizes will be awarded and announced at the opening reception. This year’s juror is Deborah Santoro, Gallery Director of the University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Learn more about the juror below.
The College Show has no theme. Bring us your favorite piece from your art class or your personal artistic practice, or show off your latest experiment. You do not need to be an art student or in an art class to submit.
Students may submit a maximum of three pieces for consideration, and must complete a separate submission form for each piece. When submitting more than one piece, please return to the original link to make additional submissions.
Submission is free to students of our institutional partners: Anna Maria College, Assumption University, Clark University, College of the Holy Cross, Quinsigamond Community College, and Worcester State University. There is a nonrefundable $5 submission fee per submission for students of any other college or university in Massachusetts.
Studying abroad in Spring 2025, but still want to submit? Make a plan for a friend to hold on to your submissions while you’re away. If your artwork is chosen, they can drop it off at the gallery for you.
This is a juried exhibition, meaning that the juror will consider all eligible submissions and select certain artworks to be shown at ArtsWorcester. All media are welcome, including but not limited to fine craft, painting, photography, sculpture, digital, and video. Have a question about the call, or want to share what you’re thinking of submitting? Email Alice Dillon or call the gallery at 508-755-5142.
/ABOUT THE JUROR
Deborah Santoro
Deborah Santoro engages visual and material strategies to unravel outdated methodologies that imply we are separate. The interstitial spaces between drawing, printmaking, and lens-based ways of looking forge pathways into neural networks, creating new narratives that allow for multispecies to flourish in a rapidly changing climate. Santoro delves through history to find new futures, and fervently hopes her grandchildren can walk amongst the trees. Santoro has served as the Gallery Director for the University of Massachusetts Lowell since 2014, and as such was recently awarded an Artist Resource Trust grant for the upcoming DRAW Lowell exhibition. For her personal work she was honored with ‘Best in Show’ by curators Lauren Szumita and Marie Picard Craig for Juniper Rag’s PULP exhibition in April 2024. Santoro holds a BA in Studio Art from Wellesley College and an MFA in Studio Art from the Maine College of Art & Design.