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Exhibition Dates: January 15, 2026 to March 11, 2026

Call for Entries: Saturday, October 11, 2025 – Saturday, November 8, 2025

This exhibition draws inspiration from the natural world--close observations, reveries that unfold, or images conjured from that peaceful place induced by time spent outdoors. But for this exhibition, artists transform: earth, wind and sky, flora and fauna, water surfaces, butterflies, etc. through their art making.

Abstracting Nature will showcase paintings, drawings, and photography--all starting with nature but ending as reinterpretations or abstractions. Photography may be aerial views with patterning, close ups revealing texture, cast shadows that supersede their subjects. Paintings and drawings convey your response to nature by breaking it down for expressions in form and color.

All entries must be submitted digitally through ArtCall. Visit the call for entry page for comprehensive submission guidelines.

This exhibition will animate the viewer’s experience by revealing connections between artworks--the contemporary work in dialogue with a chosen muse.

Exhibition run: November 20, 2025 – January 7, 2026

Artist Opening Reception: Thursday, November 20 from 6pm to 8pm

Call for Entries: September 5, 2025 – October 4, 2025

This exhibition draws inspiration from the natural world, close observations, reveries that unfold, or images conjured from that peaceful place induced by time spent outdoors.

Abstracting Nature will showcase interpretive, expressive, abstract, or semi-abstract art and photography that begins with nature.

Exhibition run: January 15, 2026–March 11, 2026

An exhibit that explores the dynamic intersection between artistic expression and the visual language of mass production. Featuring works including but not limited to pop art, comic books, and manga-style, this exhibition examines how artists have embraced, and critiqued consumer culture through bold imagery, commercial aesthetics, and accessible storytelling.

By blurring the lines between high art and popular media, these genres challenge traditional hierarchies in the art world, reflecting the influences of advertising, entertainment, and everyday life on contemporary visual culture.

ARTalk by Matt Silady, Director of academic and faculty development at California College of the Arts.

Exhibition run: March 19, 2026–May 13, 2026

Images will explore the broadest meaning of home. Not just the structure but where our selected photographers feel seen.

The many versions of home could be images of physical space, objects that unlock feelings of home, connections to homeland or emotional states. A captured still of people preparing food together, celebrating a birthday, or of what stirs memories of childhood, such as fireflies, thunderstorms or a barbeque.

ARTalk by Jeff Gunderson, SFAI Legacy Foundation, SFAI Photography.

Exhibition run: May 21, 2026–July 8,2026

Artists employ techniques to create visual elements that are uniquely theirs. Brushstrokes on canvas, dashes in ink or graphite, or incised lines – all just strokes that are theirs.

These shapes and patterns can not only create rhythm, but lines can drive the viewer’s eye. While some of the dabs of paint, brush-marks, or patterning are conscious, much mark-making is accidental or unconscious. Bring on your strokes.

Exhibition run: Sept. 17, 2026 – Nov. 11, 2026

Chromo-therapy, or color therapy, uses colors to promote well-being and healing. Red, orange and yellow are thought to actually stimulate dopamine effects. Whereas, calming blue is considered peaceable.

Others ascribe green as having energizing effects, yellow as uplifting, and purple as healing. This unique exhibition, an exploration in color-use for the good, brings together artworks that convey resilience and healing through color.

Exhibition run: Nov. 19, 2026 – Jan. 13, 2027