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Call for Entries: New Works 2025

Updated: Aug 27

October 11 – November 29, 2025

Hayloft Gallery | Floyd Center for the Arts


Mission

The Floyd Center for the Arts connects people through visual arts, handmade craft, and music—honoring living traditions while embracing innovation.


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Call Description

The Floyd Center for the Arts invites artists from across the region to submit work for New Works 2025, a juried exhibition that showcases the bold directions, fresh perspectives, and evolving techniques of today’s regional artists.


This exhibition aims to investigate and celebrate the new media, methods, and creative journeys our artists are embracing—whether through experimentation with unfamiliar materials, innovative processes, or fresh interpretations of traditional forms.


By highlighting work created within the past two years, New Works 2025 reflects the vitality of our regional arts community and honors the commitment artists make to push boundaries, take risks, and expand their practice. The exhibition seeks to inspire dialogue between artists and audiences, encouraging exploration of both the familiar and the unexpected in contemporary artmaking.


This is a juried exhibition. The juror for New Works 2025 is Brian Holcombe, Curator at the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.


Eligibility

  • Open to artists 18+ living within a 150-mile radius of the Floyd Center for the Arts

  • All artworks must have been completed within the past two years

  • All visual media are welcome

  • Video entries must include both the digital file and display equipment, along with clear installation directions

  • Artists of 3D works must provide display and/or installation instructions

  • Artwork must be available for the full duration of the exhibition; no substitutions allowed


Awards

  • First Place – $200

  • Second Place – $150

  • Third Place – $100

  • People’s Choice – $50


Important Dates

  • Call Opens: Friday, August 15, 2025

  • Deadline to Apply: Friday, September 12, 2025

  • Jury: September 15–19, 2025

  • Notifications Sent: Monday, September 22, 2025

  • Artwork Delivery Window: September 22–26, 2025

    • Hand-delivered artwork accepted during FCA open hours:

      • Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday = 12–5 pm

      • Saturday = 10–5 pm

    • Shipped artwork must arrive by September 26, 2025

    • Artists must include a prepaid return label; if none is provided, a $20 administrative fee will be added to the return shipping cost

    • Artists delivering large, heavy, or complex works are expected to assist with installation—coordinate time with FCA staff

  • Exhibition Dates: October 11 – November 29, 2025

  • Opening Reception: Saturday, October 18, 4–6 pm


Entry Details

  • Application Fee: $25 (non-refundable)

  • Submit up to 3 works that best reflect your skills and artistic voice

  • Apply online via Call for Entry (CaFÉ)

  • Artists are responsible for delivery/shipping and return shipping of their work

  • Sales & Commission: A 40% commission on sales will be retained by the Floyd Center for the Arts; 60% paid to the artist via ACH payment


Liability

While every reasonable precaution will be taken in handling artwork, the Floyd Center for the Arts is not responsible for loss or damage to artwork during shipping, delivery, storage, handling, installation, exhibition, or return. Artists are encouraged to personally insure their work for both transit and the duration of the exhibition. Submission of work implies acceptance of these conditions.


All accepted work will be displayed in our Hayloft Gallery, a premier exhibition space for showcasing outstanding regional art.


Questions?

Erin Bloodgood, Program Manager

📞 540-745-4873


 
 
 
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