Call for Art: What’s Going On? Art in Response
An Online Art Exhibition
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
May 12 to June 20, 2026
Juried by Chester Arnold
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O’Hanlon Center for the Arts invites you to submit work for our upcoming online exhibition: :
What’s Going On? Art in Response
As the 21st century unfolds, we find ourselves in rapidly shifting territory. Political, Economic, Social, Technological and Environmental changes are swift and unstable.
Many of the institutions, organizations and communities we have relied on to help us make sense of our world seem to be crumbling. Most of us are unsure of what is real.
Art reflects the emotions, concerns, and aspirations of a people. Through artistic expression, artists can communicate, provoke, and challenge injustices and give voice to insecurities and aspirations.
Please submit your visual responses and perspectives related to the unsettling and confusing zeitgeist we find ourselves living in.
Key Dates
- Deadline to Submit on CaFe: Monday, April 27 (11 pm PT)
- Notifications Sent: May 5 (by 5 pm PT)
- Exhibition Dates: May 12 – June 20 2026
- Zoom Roundtable with Juror: May 14 (4 pm PT)
Entry Fee
- $30 general/ $25 OHCA members with coupon code OH25
- Or, join as new Artist Member to get a free submission. Artist level membership is an annual membership for $140. Please email the office at office@ohanloncenter.org to obtain a special coupon. Note: emails are not monitored during the weekend.
Requirement
- Up to 3 works may be submitted
- Work does not need to be for sale
- All media except video are eligible
- Contemporary, expressionistic, abstract, exploratory, and/or experimental entries encouraged.
Images
- File Type: JPEG or JPG only.
- File Dimensions: 1,200 pixels or greater on the longest side.
- File Size: Under 5 MB
- Color Profile: sRGB
At OHCA our online shows have a reputation for being well curated. We have a poet respond to the work. We honor the work with a downloadable PDF program and highlight each work on our instagram page during the run of the show. Our artists’ talk is recorded and shared on our Vimeo page and with the arts community. (Check out prior talks here.) We publicize the show to our 4K mailing list and to the local media. Past shows are archived and available as well!
By submitting artwork to be considered for any Exhibition, Artist understands and agrees to Gallery Policies shown below.
GALLERY POLICIES/REQUIREMENTS
Online Exhibits
By submitting artwork to be considered for any Exhibition, Artist understands and agrees to the following:
- Participants: Open to all artists age 16 and over.
- Artwork Eligibility: Works previously shown at the O'Hanlon Gallery online are not eligible.
- Exhibit Curation: For most exhibits, not all artists will have artwork selected for showing. Final artwork selections are up to the Exhibit Juror(s) and/or Installer/Curator, both of which vary from show to show.
- Artwork Sales: Buyers will pay Artist directly for any art sales. Artist agrees to contact OHCA of this sale and make a donation to OHCA of 30% of the sale price, on all sales of artwork within the first 60 days of the exhibition. This includes all artwork exhibited in an OHCA Gallery, in an online OHCA website gallery, and facilitated by OHCA. Donations to OHCA are tax-deductible to the extent permissible by law.
- Artwork Pricing: Artwork does not need to be for sale. You may mark a piece as NFS (Not For Sale) or POR (Price on Request.)
- Publicity: By submitting work, artists agree that photographic images and/or video of the artist and/or their artwork, in whole or in part, may be used by OHCA in various forms including but not limited to print, online and social media.
- Newsletter: Artists agree to be added to O'Hanlon Center newsletter mailing list and can unsubscribe at any time.
Poster art by: Complex Displacement by Orin Carpenter
Postcard design by: JT Design
ABOUT THE JUROR: CHESTER ARNOLD
My paintings are part of a visual dialogue running the length and breadth of human history. The search for excellence in this Art and Craft has led me to explore the natural world and the human events that inhabit it, constructing narratives that celebrate and question our presence in the world.
Although representational, I seek a way of painting that is richly traditional, yet radically and surprisingly new. I attempt to articulate more than the surfaces and dimensions of reality, summoning the wordless meanings and sensations that only visual art can.
Visit Arnold Chester’s website: chesterarnoldartist.org