Call for Submissions
Still Queer - unapologetic, reflective, layered, and alive
Exhibition Dates: June 5 – June 27
Submission Deadline: May 1
Artist Notification: May 7
Still Queer is a group exhibition celebrating the endurance, evolution, and everyday brilliance of queer life. This show invites artists to explore what it means to remain—boldly, tenderly, defiantly—queer across time, space, and circumstance.“Still” holds many meanings: continuity, quietness, resilience, refusal, pause, survival, and joy that persists.
We welcome work that reflects on queer identity as something lived and ongoing—whether through personal narrative, chosen family, intimacy, protest, softness, transformation, humor, memory, or futurity. How does queerness shape the body, the home, the landscape, the archive, the imagination? What does it mean to be here, now, and still queer?
This open call especially encourages submissions from queer artists across the spectrum of identity and experience. Artists who identify as LGBTQIA2S+ are warmly invited to apply. At the same time, all submissions will be thoughtfully considered. We welcome representational, abstract, and conceptual work in all media, including but not limited to painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, fiber, video, performance documentation, mixed media, and installation. Work may be celebratory, confrontational, intimate, political, poetic—or somewhere in between.
Important Dates
Submissions Due: May 1
Artists Notified: May 7
Opening Reception: June 5
Exhibition Runs: June 5 – June 27
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
Still Queer seeks work that is unapologetic, reflective, layered, and alive—art that insists on presence, complexity, and the ongoing act of becoming.
WET - seeking work that is coastal, tidal, saline, and alive
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.