Inner Sanctuaries - Exploring Domestic Spaces

Exhibition Calendar:

• Feb. 1, 2024 – CaFÉ Submission Deadline
• Feb. 24, 2024 – Notification Date
• March 9, 2024 – Deadline for Loan Agreement
• April 11, 2023 by end of day – Shipped artwork must at the address provided
• April 20, 2024 between 11am - 2pm – Hand-delivered artwork must arrive at Strata Gallery
• April 23 - May 10, 2024 – Exhibition Dates
• April 26, 2024 from 5-7pm – Reception Date
• May 11, 2024, 10am-1pm – Pickup of Hand-delivered artwork at Strata Gallery
• Week of May 11, 2024 – Artworks shipped back to artists

Inner Sanctuaries - Exploring Domestic Spaces
Journey into the heart of everyday life by submitting your artwork for our upcoming exhibition, "Inner Sanctuaries." We invite artists to unravel the beauty, stories, and emotions woven into domestic spaces, turning the ordinary into extraordinary. Express your interpretation of home, personal spaces, and the dynamics within. Whether through painting, photography, sculpture, or mixed media, capture the essence of domesticity — be it cozy corners, bustling kitchens, or quiet reflections in living rooms. Selected artworks will be curated into a captivating exhibition, offering viewers a glimpse into the diverse landscapes of private realms. Join us in celebrating the nuances of domestic life, where mundane moments transform into profound expressions. Submit your artwork by February 1st, 2024 and contribute to the narrative of "Inner Sanctuaries." This exhibition aims to illuminate the significance of our daily surroundings, creating a shared exploration of the familiar and the intimate. Let your creativity illuminate the often-overlooked beauty within the spaces we call home.

Inner Sanctuaries is a juried exhibition that will be held at Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The exhibition will run from April 23 - May 10, 2024.

About Strata Gallery:
Strata Gallery is a non-profit, artist-member gallery with a mission that cultivates artistic discussion and educates the public about the work of contemporary established and emerging artists. Through our mentorship program, our established artists give our emerging artists direct guidance, feedback, and information as they learn to navigate their artistic practice. Through collaborations and discussions, Strata Gallery provides a venue that encourages artists to experiment and re-examine what art is and could be. Strata Gallery does not favor any distinct style and promotes a range of diverse and authentic individual expression through a varied material practice, imagery, style, and ethos independent of any commercial concern. Strata Gallery is located at 125 Lincoln Ave, Suite 105, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501. 

About the Juror:
Stephanie J. Woods is a multimedia artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art at the University of New Mexico. Working primarily in the fields of photography, fiber, video, and sculpture. She creates mixed-media works, handcrafting the props featured in her photographs. Raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, she cultivates an artistic practice concerned with exploring Black American culture, identity, and the impact of involuntary cultural assimilation.

In 2021 Woods was selected to attend the artist residency Black Rock Senegal, located in Dakar Senegal, and in 2021 Woods was also awarded the 1858 Prize for contemporary southern art awarded by the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina. Woods is also the recipient of several other awards, residencies, and fellowships, including the 2022 Harpo Prize, the Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, ACRE Residency, the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency, and Penland School of Craft. Her work is featured in permanent collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and the Gibbes Museum of Art, among others . Additionally she has been featured in BOMB Magazine, Art Papers, Lenscratch, Burnaway, and the Boston Art Review.

Selection Criteria Include:

• Does the artwork comply with the submission requirements? 
  Failure to follow submission requirements will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.
• Uniqueness and originality
• Visual impact
• Demonstrated excellence of technique

Sales of Artwork
Each respective artist will handle the sale and shipping of any sold artwork included in the Inner Sanctuaries exhibition. Strata Gallery will collect contact information of all interested buyers and provide that information to the artist who will then execute the sale and shipping of their artwork. All sold artwork included in the Inner Sanctuaries exhibition will be subject to 20% commission which will be due to Strata Gallery.

Application Requirements

• All artwork must be ready to hang/display with the proper hardware (i.e., paintings framed with wire)
• Dimensions: Wall mounted work max size is 40x40 inches (12 inches deep for wall mounted sculpture).
• Max Weight: 25 lbs
• Submitted work must remain available for the duration of the exhibition
• No changes to information can be made once submitted

Image Format Requirements:

• Submit image in .jpg format
• Include the following annotations:
  • Artist’s name
  • Title of Artwork
  • Date of completion
  • Medium/Media
  • Size in inches: Height x Width x Depth
  • Price of artwork

Submission Fee:

• $35 for first three submissions
• $10 per additional submission

Eligibility Criteria

This call is open to artists regardless of race, color, religion, natural origin, gender, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or physical or mental disabilities. Acceptable mediums include: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, and mixed media. Artists working with video or projection must provide their own equipment.