Call for Submissions

Exhibition Dates: Tentatively July 3 or July 10 – August 23
Submission Deadline: June 1
Artist Notification: June 7

WET is a group exhibition centered on the Salish Sea and the oceanic environment of the Pacific Northwest. This exhibition invites artists to respond to the sea as place, presence, and influence—its surface and depths, its ecologies and rhythms, its histories, and its emotional and cultural weight.

Submissions may engage directly with coastal imagery—shorelines, tides, currents, marine life, weather systems—or approach the ocean more abstractly. Artists are encouraged to explore concepts of fluidity, immersion, erosion, saturation, scale, time, and interconnectedness. Works that evoke the feeling of the sea through color, texture, movement, or process are welcome, even when the ocean itself is not explicitly depicted.

This exhibition is open to representational, abstract, and conceptual interpretations. All media are welcome, including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, fiber, and installation.

Important Dates

• Submissions Due: June 1

• Artists Notified: June 7

• Exhibition Dates: July 10 – August 23 (Tentatively)

Submission Guidelines:

• Submit up to 3 artworks for the gallery show

• Include title, medium, dimensions, and year for each artwork

• Artist statement (max 250 words) on your connection to the theme

• Brief bio or CV

• Submit via: https://www.voxelgallery.com/open-calls

WET seeks work that is coastal, tidal, saline, and alive—work shaped by proximity to the Salish Sea and the ocean beyond.