UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES

Open Call: April 22–June 10, 2025 On View: July 12–August 23, 2025 | Glassell Gallery Reception + Awards: August 23, 2025, 6–8 p.m. Prospectus Taking an expansive approach to feel, feeling, felt, Glassell Gallery is seeking artists whose work addresses emotional states and embodiment—to the shifts felt when we tune into our senses. We seek work that embraces the sensuous—touch, temperature, vibration, aura—and connects the haptic, emotional, and somatic. Juror: Emily Wilkerson Emily Wilkerson is the founder and director of Other Plans, a contemporary art gallery in New Orleans that presents solo and two-person exhibitions by an inter-generational group of artists. Wilkerson's writing has been featured in Artforum.com, Art in America, Pelican Bomb, Art Papers, Burnaway, and multiple exhibition catalogs, and she has worked on exhibitions and projects with Prospect New Orleans, the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, the Chinati Foundation, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Wilkerson completed her Master's at the University of Southern California in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere in 2012 and holds a B.A. from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Submission Deadlines The call will be open from April 22, 2025 6:00 p.m. CT through June 10, 2025 11:59 p.m. Awards First $750 / Second $500 / Third $250 Eligibility & Fee Contemporary visual artists and culture bearers who live, work, study in–or are connected to– Louisiana are eligible to apply. We especially encourage local and college/university student-artists from across the Greater Baton Rouge area to apply. Artists must be 18 years and older. There is a $10 entry fee. Applicants may enter up to four (4) artworks TOTAL. If more than 4 are submitted, only the first 4 submissions will be considered. All media are eligible. Work should have been completed within last three years. All selected works must be ready for installation at the time of delivery or work will be disqualified (unless special arrangements are made for artist install.) Artists must frame work and/or provide any specialized hardware. In some cases, artists must provide required special AV equipment and/or display stands that are specific to the work. For each submitted work, applicants must provide general technical elements/ specifications. For each submitted work, where applies, applicants must provide a checklist of objects/ elements that are included with the work and any special display descriptions and values. Work made of materials that may be hazardous cannot be accepted. Installation-based work may require self-installation, with support from Glassell’s staff. Glassell Gallery is unable to provide travel assistance. Shipping/Delivery Selected artists are responsible for covering travel costs and making all round-trip delivery and incoming shipping arrangements in coordination with Glassell Gallery. Return shipping via FedEx Ground for works mailed incoming will be covered by gallery if work is suitably packed/able to be repacked. If deemed unsuitable for repacking, the Gallery will reimburse travel up to $35.00 for artist to retrieve work. Sales/Commissions Works are offered for sale with a 50/50 split to support Glassell Gallery Programming. To process payments, artists will be required to sign up as supplier with LSU. Important Dates Open Call: April 22–June 10, 2025 – Entries accepted through artcall.org Juror Review: June 11–22, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: June 23, 2025 Mail or Deliver Artwork: Glassell Gallery June 29–July 2 / July 7 Exhibition Dates: July 12–August 23, 2025 Reception & Awards: Saturday, August 23, 6–8 p.m. Pick up/ Return of Artwork: Artists may pick up their work at 8 p.m. 8/23 or August 25-30, 12-5 p.m. // Mailed works will be returned August 25–30 in original packaging via FedEx.

WILD. // Wild Thoughts. Wild Actions. Wild Places. Wild Beings LSU School of Art Summer Contemporary Juried by Ron Bechet OPEN CALL: LSU School of Art and LSU College of Art + Design are pleased to invite contemporary local and regional artists and culture bearers to this year’s summer show—an open call, juried exhibition which will be on view in Glassell Gallery located in downtown Baton Rouge’s Shaw Center for the Arts. Taking an expansive approach to wild, wildness, and wilderness, Glassell Gallery is seeking artists whose work embraces radical imagination and radical noticing of both the wild within us and the wild that surrounds us. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Exhibition On View: July 13–August 24, 2024 First Prize $500 Second Prize $250 Third Prize $100 Honorable Mention Please review the Submission Guidelines and Important Dates below before submitting. ELIGIBILITY // GUIDELINES Submission Deadlines: The call will be open from May 6, 2024 12:00 p.m. CT through June 14, 2024 11:59 p.m. Who is Eligible to Submit? Contemporary visual artists and culture bearers who live, work, study in–or are connected to– Louisiana are eligible to apply. We especially encourage local and college/university student-artists from across the Greater Baton Rouge area to apply. Artists must be 18 years and older.