CALLS FOR ART:

“Sum Sum Summ-A-Time”​
​Final Days!​
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​Exhibition Dates 8/6/26 - 8/30/26​
​Submissions Due 7/22/26 ​
​Artist Notification 7/26/26

Artsy Online Exhibit-​
It's summertime and we invite you to submit work for consideration in our Drawing Rooms exhibit, “Sum Sum Summ-A-Time”, the first online-only exhibition presented on Artsy.net!​
​APPLY ON CaFE -here​
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​We'd like to see both works relating to the theme of summer:

• scenes and places
• summer food
• leisure
• flora and fauna
• the colors, sensations and experiences of summertime
• works you made during this or any other summer
• works made in a warm weather climate
• imagery of what you would like to do in the summer
• work made during a summer residency program
• anything else you can make a case for that relates to the concept of summer.
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Let's capture summer's essence!
Many famous artists have created works on the theme of summer: Carole Feuerman’s bathing-capped swimmers, Milton Avery’s beach scenes inspired by summers in Massachusetts and Maine, Peter Doig’s warm-weather and tropical paintings made after his move to Trinidad, Gauguin’s Tahiti, Monet and Manet’s painting of French coastline beaches, David Hockney's swimming pool paintings, Alex Katz' Maine beach paintings- what about yours?
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There are too many songs about summer—from Billie Holiday: Summertime, Earth Wind and Fire: Hot Fun in the Summertime, Beach Boys: California Girls, Lana Del Rey: Summertime Sadness, Ramones: Rockaway Beach, DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince: Summertime, The Beatles: Here Comes the Sun, to Weezer: Island in the Sun, and more, that we just can’t decide on our favorite!

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​Features:

1- Online Artsy Exhibit

“Sum Sum Summ-A-Time” will be a Drawing Rooms Artsy.net Online Exhibit. Drawing Rooms has an extensive selection of artists' works, previous exhibits, and featured-artist “viewing room” pages on this world-class art sales platform. Galleries and collectors from around the world engage with Artsy as the preferred way to view and purchase fine art online.

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​2- Meet the Artists Online Zoom event

Drawing Rooms will host an online Meet the Artist Event afternoon on Zoom that will feature artists from the exhibit and be open to the public.

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​3- Future Gallery Programs

Artists in the exhibition will be given preference for our Jersey City Lobby Program and the Big Small Show at our Jersey City gallery space, as well as future online Artsy.net presentations throughout the year.
​Submissions Due 7/22/26

​See more and apply at CaFE​

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​Exhibition Dates 9/10/26 - 10/11/26​
​Deadline: 8/11/26​
​APPLY​

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​We invite you to submit work for consideration in our Drawing Rooms exhibit, “Torn”.
In this show we are looking to expand on the definition of and concepts surrounding the word "torn" by featuring exciting works which result in whole or part from the action of tearing the material it is composed of (ex: collage, fiber, painting, assemblage), documentation of the residue of the action (ex: a photograph) or through the creation of a composition with competing elements or narratives which don't completely unite (ex: drawing, painting, sculpture).
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​Many well-known artists channel their emotional energies into making work that embodies and transcends the experience of being human. They do this after internalizing events they experience (either personally or occurring outside themselves) and reinterpreting these events through elegant formal means or the juxtaposition of textures, forms and color. They may also render their work by tearing, repairing and reassembling their materials as a way of processing the events in whole or part which may or may not be visible to the viewer. There may be a sense of joy and freedom in the act of tearing a material from which something new is created. Competing elements or narratives may also create an exciting intellectual and visceral tension.
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Artists chosen will also be considered for our other programs, such as The Art Project JC lobbies, and online Artsy.net exhibits throughout the year.
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Exhibition Dates 9/10/26 - 10/11/26​
​Deadline: 8/11/26​
​Apply on CaFE​
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​Anything goes for our Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space 8 exhibition! ​
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We are looking for an exciting and compelling cohesive body of work or installation on any theme or concept and of any size or media for our Solo Project Space.
A layout of the Project Space can be found at the Site Plan area of the application.
Artists will also be considered for inclusion in our other programs, such as The Art Project JC lobbies, and online Artsy.net exhibits throughout the year.

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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

​www.drawingrooms.org​

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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.

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