OPEN CALL: smallWORKS

smallWORKS | Looking Out from Within
A juried biennial exhibition
​October 17 – November 22, 2026
smallWORKS returns to the galleries at Garrison Art Center this fall, inviting artists to consider artwork as a passageway — a frame through which we glimpse something beyond. Presented alongside INSCAPE / OUTSCAPE in the Balter Gallery, a curated exhibition drawn from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, this year's smallWORKS takes inspiration from that show's meditation on how environments shape our ways of seeing and being in the world.
​Submissions may reference artwork as a kind of window, open to both representational and abstract interpretations. Whether peering inward or outward, intimate or expansive, works are invited to explore how the plane of an artwork can become a threshold.
​Open to artists 18 and older working in 2D and 3D media, submissions must be no larger than 12 inches at the longest dimension (frame excluded) and no heavier than 35 pounds. Works must be framed, ready to hang, and created after 2023.
​Two Prizes:
​Best 2D work
$500
​Best 3D work
$500
About the juror: Christina Kee is an artist and writer who has worked at The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation since 2011, supporting public programming and exhibitions featuring artists including George Grosz, James Castle, Stanley Lewis, and Graham Nickson. A regular speaker on the Artcritical Review Panel, she has written extensively on modern and contemporary art. Originally from Toronto, Kee is a Studio School alumna (MFA 2006) and past assistant to the Dean.
Submissions open
April 30, 2026
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Submissions close
June 30, 2026
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Exhibition dates
October 17 – November 22, 2026
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Venue
The Gillette Gallery, Garrison Art Center