Artist Opportunities

Midwest Nice Art is excited to announce our winter call for art for Gesamtkunstwerk, or a total work of art, a virtual exhibition.

At Midwest Nice Art, we have an appreciation (some may say an obsession) for art history. When thinking about art at its core, and particularly genres, harmony and unity bring everything together — form, concept, material. With this in mind, we invite artists to submit work for Gesamtkunstwerk, or a total work of art, a group exhibition exploring artwork that considers the whole. This idea is rooted in the early twentieth century, with artistic movements working as a reaction to industrialism and modernism — in Arts and Crafts Movement’s handmade décor, Bauhaus’ form and function, Art Nouveau’s organic unification, and Dada’s nonsense installations. These practices evolved with installation, new aesthetics, and performances. With this inspiration, we seek work that considers the total work, or turns this on its head.

The exhibition will examine these ideas through a variety of mediums in art. Any mediums are welcome, including but not limited to sculpture, painting, collage, photography, digital art, video art, installation, ceramics, performance art — anything you can think of! You may submit up to three artworks for a $5 fee, due November 20, 2025. Artists will receive a notification a week after the deadline. Students may submit for free with the code STUDENT25 (to use this, please use your school email when applying). The exhibition will go live December 2025.

This exhibition will be juried by Danielle Krysa, aka “The Jealous Curator.” Danielle (Canada) has a BFA in Visual Arts and a post-grad in Graphic Design. She is the writer behind the contemporary art site The Jealous Curator (est. 2009) and has curated art shows all over North America. Danielle is also an artist herself, and her mixed media work is held in private collections worldwide. She is the author of several art books, including Creative Block, Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk, A Big Important Art Book — Now with Women, and two children’s books: How to Spot an Artist and Art and Joy. Danielle has had the great pleasure of speaking at TEDx, Pixar, and Creative Mornings, and was interviewed in a series of video segments on Oprah.com about breaking through creative blocks and self-doubt.

For more information: https://www.midwestnice.art/opencalls/gesamtkunstwerk

CALL FOR ENTRIES
​The Big Small Show 2025,
at Drawing Rooms

We invite you to submit work for consideration in this year’s The Big Small Show 2025, our year-end fundraiser exhibit. The Big Small Show 2025 will be a review of works made in the past 2 years.

Now in its tenth year at Drawing Rooms, The Big Small Show will include multiple pieces by each artist in our expanded gallery space which includes The Terrarium Gallery, The Alcove Gallery and Gallery One at Drawing Rooms. Our goal is to gather together a large array of innovative and exceptional new works to produce an exciting survey show.

Submission Deadline: 10/31/25

Opening Weekend: December 12th – December 14th, 2025

Click here for more info.

Do you have a Third Place?

Where do you go when you’re itching to leave the house but don’t need to go to work or class? Maybe it’s a café, bar, art club, dog park, library, gym, bookstore, or even a place to which you travel in your mind.

Some of these spots can be described as “third places”. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined this term to describe places outside of the home (the “first place”) and the workplace (the “second place”), where folks go to converse with others and connect with their community. In these cases, no one is obligated to be there and are often free or affordable. In other words, they’re our happy places.

These spaces serve us well and we come back time and time again. Here at the Arts Council, we get it. We see repeat students, familiar faces at gallery openings, people who come out every week to draw, paint, print, chat, and it lets us know we’re doing something right.

So for this year’s Annual Member Show, we invite you to capture what you call sanctuary, comfort, zen — whether it’s a physical place or somewhere abstract you travel to in your mind — and show it off in our Taplin Gallery. And if you’re lacking a third place, get an ACP membership today and find your bliss.

Artwork Drop-off
December 15 & 16
10am-4pm

Opening Reception
Friday, December 19, 5-7pm

Artwork Pick-up
January 5 & 6
10am-4pm

SUBMIT HERE

Quality Writing:
Besides the prestige of being published amongst some of the finest established artists in the world and gaining recognition with notable galleries and institutions, the main reason artists apply is because of the quality of our writing. Point Pleasant critical essays discuss the accomplishments, interpretations, process, and unique attributes by individual artists featured in the catalogue. The writing by Point Pleasant Publishing is 100% human-created content, absolutely no artificial intelligence used.

Eligibility Criteria:
Point Pleasant Publishing accepts experimental and alternative forms of visual art including photography, performance, video, film, installation, assemblage, collage, fiber, printmaking, light design, jewelry, fashion, & costume design, and analogue digital (no AI).

Artists are selected based on a variety of factors including their accomplishments, originality, conceptual impact, overall cohesiveness of portfolio, and aesthetic qualities of the art.

We especially encourage alternative / experimental artists to apply.

Read more details and apply.