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Open Call: Solo Exhibition

Type: Exhibition Opportunities [View all]
Posted by: Smith College
Deadline: Fri, April 18th, 2025

The Oresman Gallery, located in the Smith College Department of Art, is an exhibition space dedicated to showing new work by emerging and established artists (who are not currently enrolled in a degree bearing program). The Oresman is currently seeking proposals in any media, for solo show opportunities for our Spring 2026-Spring 2028 exhibition season. Applications will be reviewed by a committee of Smith College studio art faculty. Each exhibition will be installed for 6 weeks, and scheduled throughout the academic calendar year.

Exhibition theme 2026-2028

Legacies of Landscape and New Approaches to landscapes: Whether playing with traditional forms, contested legacies, emergent spaces, oceanic narratives, ecologies, urban planning, the anthropocene, technological landscapes…the visual category of Landscapes continue to shift, recall the past, and be seen through new forms and hybrid spaces. We ask artists in this call to consider how their work might speak to the Landscape Reimagined, Landscape Emergent…

The Oresman Gallery will provide artists with a remuneration of up to $400 to cover documented exhibition costs, which will be paid as a reimbursement. Exhibitors are responsible for arranging transport, installing and de-installing their work. The gallery is 12’ x 20’ with 10’ walls, and one window wall.

Exhibiting artists are also encouraged to give a public artist lecture that can be arranged during their exhibition period for which there is a $400 artist honorarium. 

As a teaching gallery we encourage applications from a diversity of artist perspectives and a range of artistic media. 

Submission Materials

-Up to 10 Images/or 2 videos of all work for the proposed exhibition. If the work is in process, submit similar work and describe the eventual exhibited piece(s) in a more detailed proposal.

-Image list (title, media, dimensions)

-The Oresman Gallery is part of an art department at a liberal arts college. Please include a paragraph in the proposal that describes how your exhibition might engage with this environment.

-Brief artist’s statement.

-CV/résumé with website and contact information

-Please compile these documents as one PDF: 10 images, image list, exhibition proposal, artist statement, and resume/CV. Label the pdf lastname_firstname_

Please title the email in the subject line: Artist Name_Oresman Gallery_OpenCall 2025. Submit to oresmangallery@smith.edu. All artists will be notified in Fall 2025

Click here for Oresman Gallery exhibition archive and gallery views.

Posted on Wed, February 26th, 2025
Expires on Fri, April 18th, 2025

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