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Call for Art: Drawn In

Type: Exhibition Opportunities [View all]
Posted by: Art League RI
Deadline: Sat, January 10th, 2026

https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=16509

 

Drawn In

International Call for Art

Jurors: Sarah Hardesty and Amanda Jirón-Murphy

 

Jan 10 // Submission Deadline

January 15 // Notifications sent

January 20 // Confirm participation

Feb 10 // Work delivered by

February 21 // Exhibition opens

 

It seems like the first thing we learned how to do as children is pick up something and draw. Of course, what we draw with when we’re little varies: a stick in the dirt, a crayon, our fingers on a frosty window pane, or perhaps the moisture-covered mirror of a steamy bathroom. Drawing can be a problem-solver, a way to understand how things work, or a way to record a fleeting moment. Drawing is innate to us: it is the way we communicated before language; after all, drawing existed before written language.

 

In the spirit of that impulse, Drawn In, the February 2026 Rhode Island Art League’s international juried exhibition, curated by Sarah Hardesty and Amanda Jirón-Murphy, invites artists to submit drawings with the broadest possible definition of the term. Fully finished drawings are welcome submissions, but so too are sketches. The mediums will vary, as will size and degree of finish. Perhaps the drawing is an excerpt from a sketchbook, or it could be the remnants of a performance that indicate where the body has been in space. Maybe the drawing is made with paint. 

In Drawn In, we invite a broad and inclusive understanding of drawing. We welcome works that might not be thought of as traditional drawing and that make use of unorthodox materials. We want to expand our definition of the term by including works that challenge our notions of what it can be, how it can be made, and what it could be made of.

 

AWARDS
First Place: $500
Second Place: $300
Third Place: $150
Honorable Mention (2)

Jurors:

Sarah Hardesty, Exhibition and Program Director, Art League RI; Professor, RIC and Bryant, Artist
Amanda Jirón-Murphy, Curator & Resident Artist/Collector Liaison at Museum of Contemporary Art in Arlington, Virginia

More information and to submit work: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=16509
Gallery website: https://artleagueri.org/

 

Posted on Mon, December 1st, 2025
Expires on Sat, January 10th, 2026

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