09/02/2026
REMINDER: Submissions for our Juried Exhibition are due September 13!
About the Exhibition: BACKWARDS/FORWARDS invites artists to submit handmade prints that consider time as material, memory, pressure, inheritance, repetition, rupture, and possibility. Time may be experienced as linear, circular, layered, transparent, opaque, fragmented, geological, ancestral, intimate, political, or otherworldly. This exhibition asks artists to look both backward and forward: toward histories that shape us, futures we imagine or fear, and the present moment where those forces meet.
As artists, how do we come to terms with our cultural past? What do we inherit, repeat, revise, resist, or transform? How do personal and collective histories surface through mark, matrix, impression, edition, erasure, pressure, layering, and touch?
Submissions must be rooted in handmade printmaking processes. Eligible techniques may include, but are not limited to, relief, intaglio, lithography, screenprint, monotype, monoprint, collagraph, letterpress, book arts, experimental print processes, handmade photographic processes, and mixed-media work that substantially incorporates hand-pulled or hand-printed elements. Digital processes may be included when they are meaningfully integrated with handmade printmaking methods. AI-generated and purely digital prints are not eligible.
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