Submission deadline: April 16, 2025
Notifications: By early June 2025
ArtsWorcester invites proposals for solo shows for our 2025-2026 gallery season. With the exception of member-curated exhibitions, eligible proposals are evaluated by a panel of seven volunteers, all with extensive experience as curators, educators, collectors, and/or artists. All proposals are viewed anonymously.
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Image: Present Tense Prize winner Ricardo Barros' 2024 solo exhibition An Entanglement of Space and Time. Photo by Nathan Fiske Photography.
Solo Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions may be placed in our galleries in the Printers Building, our partner space at the Davis Art Gallery, or recommended for our corporate art program. Multiple exhibitions may be produced in the same gallery space (for example, two solo exhibitions simultaneously in the West Gallery).
New and traditional media, fine craft, and site-specific installations are all welcome. Although you may not have seen something done at ArtsWorcester before, that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Our space and staff are flexible, and we look forward to artists pushing the boundaries of our four walls.
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Image: Mari Saxon's Shoebox, The Fairy Tale Not Yet Told (Otherworldly Family Album). Photo by Nathan Fiske Photography.
Artist Shoeboxes
Help us make use of our moveable walls, or take over our “window gallery.” These walls can be used to section off a gallery into 3-5 smaller “shoebox” spaces each dedicated to one artist’s work. This opportunity is perfect for a site-specific installation or series that may not be large enough to fill an entire gallery space.
Though these shows occupy a small area of a gallery and invite the creation of a unique environment, they are reviewed by the same committee with the same standards as solo exhibitions.
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Image: Finders & Keepers, curated by Aaron Brodeur and featuring the work of artists Lisa Barthelson, Aaron Brodeur, Christopher King, Virginia Mahoney, Rebecca McGee Tuck, and Derrick Te Paske.
Member-Curated Exhibitions
Member-Curated Exhibitions are an opportunity for artists to use their curatorial skills and gain independent, hands-on experience producing an exhibition. Located in ArtsWorcester’s Central Corridor, these shows include at least 3-4 artist members’ work, chosen by one curator. The curator may include their own artwork in the proposal. All participating artists must be ArtsWorcester members.
Curators are responsible for communicating with participating artists, collecting, delivering, and retrieving artwork, providing an exhibition statement, and installing the exhibition in the Central Corridor.
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