Contemporary Printmaking: From Tradition to Innovation
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Submission Fee: $15 per submission. Limit 5 submissions per artist.
Eligibility: Artists located in the U.S.A are welcomed to apply. Local artists will be provided with drop-off times and date details upon acceptance. Non-local selected artists’ work must be received at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472 c/o exhibitions by May 1, 2025. Non-local artists are responsible for shipping costs both to and from the MCA, unless other arrangements are made, and are responsible for insuring their work while in transit. If shipping works, each artist must provide a pre-paid, UPS or FedEx return shipping label including insurance. Please pack your work in sturdy reusable packaging. The Mosesian Center for the Arts carries appropriate insurance to cover all artwork in the show for the duration of the exhibition, including the time frame of drop-off, installation, de-installation and pick-up.
About the call: The Mosesian Center for the Arts invites artists to submit work that uses at least one or more printmaking processes. Contemporary printmaking is both shaped by tradition and innovation. This exhibition aims to showcase the variety of ways that contemporary artists approach printmaking from employing traditional techniques to more alternative methods and materials. It is a celebration of the staying power of age-old techniques and the spirit of innovation that printmakers embrace to combine the tradition with contemporary technologies and approaches.
Mosesian Arts accepts artworks created by using at least one traditional printmaking technique such as intaglio, woodcut, lithography, silkscreen, collagraph and monotype or any combinations of those techniques. The traditional printmaking can also be combined with digital print processes or other media such as drawing, painting, bookmaking or collage. Video, animation, installation and sculptural works are accepted and encouraged if they use at least one traditional printmaking process.
Boriana Kantcheva, Director of Visual Arts, teams up with well-known artist and educator Rhoda Rosenberg to curate this exciting exhibit designed to showcase local and national printmaking talent.
