CALL FOR ART:

APPLY HERE

CALL FOR ENTRIES
​​The Big Small Show 2025, ​
​at Drawing Rooms 12/11/25 - 1/18/26

SUBMISSIONS DUE: 10/31/25​
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We invite you to submit work for consideration in this year’s The Big Small Show 2025, our year-end fundraiser exhibit.
The Big Small Show 2025 will be a review of works made in the past 2 years.
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Now in its tenth year at Drawing Rooms, The Big Small Show will include multiple pieces by each artist in our expanded gallery space which includes The Terrarium Gallery, The Alcove Gallery and Gallery One at Drawing Rooms. Our goal is to gather together a large array of innovative and exceptional new works to produce an exciting survey show.
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We will create a catalog with all of the works, which will be available to view online and will be for sale on Amazon and at Drawing Rooms. The exhibition will be featured on Artsy, shared on our website, email newsletter and social media platforms. The Curator will write a Statement and the show will be reviewed. See more athttps://www.drawingrooms.org/tbss25-call.html​
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​EVENTS​
​Opening Weekend 12/12/25-12/14/25
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​CURATION​
The curator will choose a small group of each artist’s works and place them in context together to create visual, formal and conceptual connections, amplifying themes and deepening ways of understanding the works.
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​SALE OF ARTWORK

• All works in the exhibit must be for sale with 60% to artists and 40% to Drawing Rooms.​

Application Fee through CAFE ​
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Please sign up on CAFE here​
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About the Curator
​Anne Trauben is the Curator and Gallery Director at Drawing Rooms, a non-profit art center and gallery. Anne began working with Victory Hall Inc. in 2009, and was a founding artist of Drawing Rooms in 2012. Since 2013, she has organized, curated and created programming for year-round exhibitions of multiple artists at Drawing Rooms in the former convent on Grand St in Jersey City, and in 2018, at the new Drawing Rooms gallery in the Topps Building. In 2020, during the pandemic, she organized, curated and created programming for Prayers for the Pandemic, a 4 part Drawing Rooms national public art exhibition, and solo / two-person exhibitions at Dvora Gallery. In 2022, after the pandemic, Drawing Rooms reopened in a newly expanded space in the Topps Building where she has since been organizing, curating and creating programming for gallery exhibitions and public art programs. Anne is the Founder, Publisher and Editor of Nieuw Art Blog since 2017.

ABOUT US​
Drawing Rooms is a project of Victory Hall Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization producing exhibitions and classes in the NY/NJ area since 2001.
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James Pustorino, Executive Director / Anne Trauben, Exhibitions Director / Curator
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Drawing Rooms
​Topps Building
​926 Newark Ave #T101
Jersey City, NJ 07306
www.drawingrooms.org

See all our activities at
​www.drawingrooms.org

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts /Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Craig Guy, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

SUPPORTED BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE JERSEY CITY ARTS AND CULTURE TRUST FUND.