Compete MFA Call for Artists : Imprint 2025
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: June 25, 2025 – Printmaking is a dynamic and versatile form of artistic expression that bridges tradition and innovation. It allows artists to explore repetition, texture, and process while communicating powerful ideas and imagery. Through various techniques, printmakers harness the potential of line, form, and surface to captivate the viewer’s eye and convey meaning.
The process-driven nature of printmaking invites exploration and innovation, making it a rich medium for storytelling, experimentation, and reimagining visual language. We invite artists working in traditional, contemporary, or hybrid forms of printmaking to submit works that demonstrate the transformative potential of this enduring art form.
Works selected by the juror will be exhibited in Maryland Hall’s Earl Gallery from August 21 – September 25, 2025.
ELIGIBILITY
Any original 2D and 3D artwork in any media will be considered. All entries must be original and completed solely by the artist’s hand. A maximum of 6 original works created within the past 3 years may be entered. Maximum size of work, including edges of artwork or frame, cannot exceed 72″
Entry is open to artists residing in the any of the states or territories of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
JUROR
Keiji Shinohara: Master Printmaker of Woodblock Printing and Professor of Sumi-e Printing at Wesleyan University.
Keiji Shinohara has been teaching 25 years at Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut and has been a visiting artist nationally and internationally over 100 venues and 40 solo show including DFN Gallery, New York, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and Fresno Art Museum. He has received grants from the Japan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and his work is in many public collections… see more
AWARDS
Awards designated by the juror total $1,000.
ENTRY FEE
1 or 2 entries $45 (MFA Members $30). Up to 4 additional entries $6.75 each (MFA Members $4.50). Entry fees are non-refundable.
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SALES
Work must be for sale. Artists will retain 70% from sales (75% for MFA Members). MFA will retain 30% commission (25% for MFA Members at the time of the sale) on any
DATES
- Jun 25 Entry Deadline @ 11:59 PM
- Jul 24 Notification @ 5 PM
- Aug 15 – 16 Accepted and Shipped Work Must Arrive at Maryland Hall
- Aug 21 Exhibition Opens
- Aug 21 Opening Reception at Maryland Hall from 5:30 – 7 PM
- Aug 24 Virtual Awards Ceremony from 4 – 5 PM via Zoom
- Sept 25 Last Day of the Exhibition
- Sept 26 – 27 Pick-up Hand-Delivered Work from 11 AM – 2 PM
- Oct 3 Shipped Work Will Be Sent
About:
The MFA incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in 1968 and, through the hard work of a growing and enthusiastic membership, opened the Circle Gallery located at 18 State Circle, just steps away from the State House in Annapolis. The gallery is located in a restored loft space in the heart of the Annapolis Historic District and has been operating continuously since opening its doors. The MFA has also reached out beyond its doors through its Alternate Space efforts, often bringing art to unexpected places.
Maryland Federation of Art
18 State Circle
Annapolis, MD 21401
t: 410 268 4566
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