Expanding the Field; New Ideas in and Beyond Print

California Society of Printmakers (CSP) is partnering with the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA to highlight the power and possibilities of contemporary printmaking. This call aims to give printmakers the opportunity to showcase and exhibit their most innovative, and evolving work. Successful entrants will produce uniquely thoughtful imagery. Artwork will potentially go beyond the traditional bounds of printmaking, to exhibit structures that potentially, expand beyond the paper's edge, extend off the wall, interlocks, or expresses in multiples, and tells a great story.

Submissions should show the artist's unique and personal approach, while pursuing new ideas. Artists are invited to submit work that incorporates any form of hand pulled printmaking, with end results including - but not limited to - large scale print work, innovative/experimental print techniques, modular assemblages, installation, sculptural elements, art book constructions, two-dimensional prints, and more. Submissions may be conceptual, and incorporate environments. Work can be as charged as the times we live in, and as deep as the world we cling to.

Exhibition dates August 30, 2025–January 11, 2026

JUROR

Monique Martin
www.moniqueart.com 
twitter/insta: @moniquesart
monique@moniqueart.com

Monique is an eco-conscious, internationally recognized, multi-disciplinary artist from Saskatoon, Canada with a 25-year exhibition history who has exhibited her artwork in hundreds of significant solo, invited and juried exhibitions in numerous countries. Many of these were solo exhibitions in public galleries and her works are held in public and private collections around the world. Some of the major collections include: Saskatchewan Arts Board, The Royal AlbertaMuseum, University of Washington Library, University ofCalifornia-Los Angeles Library, Bytown Museum-Ottawa, and others.Her work often uses significant symbols or comments on contemporary social issues.Monique creates bodies of work rather than individual pieces and focuses on specific concepts. She undertakes extensive research prior to creating her work, often incorporating historically significant symbols and images to express her ideas. Her works push the boundaries of standard printmaking; enormous scale printmaking, installation based printmaking and working with three dimensions in printmaking. Artist-in-Residence positions include; Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra (2024/25),DisneylandParis, Paris, France (2013), the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival (2013), theSaskatchewan Children's Festival (2012), Bytown Museum, Ottawa, Canada (2010), Spalding, United Kingdom (2008), Nice, France (2006), Vallauris, France (2006), Mount Vernon, USA(2004), Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia (2003) and Coaticook, QC, Canada (2001).

Please see Monique’s website for full statement and bio

See Rules and Terms to Apply below, for more detailed information.

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