Call to Artists: Region’s Venues Seek Artist Submissions

FotoFocus is happy to share regional venues seeking artist submissions for their individual exhibitions. Each venue listed has determined the specifics for their open call and is fully in charge of the selection process. FotoFocus will not influence or participate in the selection process for these exhibitions. 

ACTIVE

Manifest Gallery
Deadline: July 19, 2026
The Sweep of Time, Beyond the Horizon will be a juried exhibition emphasizing photography’s unique ability to hold two things at once: the instant and what endures beyond it. This photo-based exhibition proposal is offered for those artists working in and around photo-based media who may have a strong interest in participating at Manifest during the FotoFocus Biennial.

ROY G BIV Gallery
Deadline: July 31, 2026
Franklinton Across Time: The Floodplain Imagination is a living archive examining the history of one of Columbus’ oldest neighborhoods through contemporary lens-based work, archival materials, interviews, and site-responsive installations, reflecting on collective memory and urban change. Jurors: Marcus Jackson and Claire Wiedman.

Mount St. Joseph University: Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery
Deadline: TBA
Regional artists considering images as vessels in which people, relationships, and everyday moments become reflections on identity, time, and remembrance.

Evendale Cultural Arts Center
Deadline: August 14, 2026
Reflections Through Time is a large-scale juried outdoor exhibition where artists contemplate memory, history, and the passage of time. Juror: Carolyn Teepen.

CLOSED

Art Academy of Cincinnati: Chidlaw Gallery
Depth of Field
An open call highlighting student artists considering the present state of photography and its possible future directions.

ArtWorks/1001 Colors Gallery
Sense of Tomorrow
Possible futures envisioned by young artists, led by Japanese-American artist HATSUE, to consider how emerging generations see themselves, their communities, and the world they will inherit and shape.

DAAP Galleries:: Reed Gallery
Long Exposure: Recent Work by Alumni
Image-based work by DAAP’s photography alumni highlighting the continued relevance of a program grounded in critical inquiry and expanded photographic practice.

Dayton Society of Artists
Luminous Flow: Time Made Visible
An open call positing long-exposure photography as a way to reveal motion, energy, and the passage of time through landscapes, cityscapes, and experimental processes.

Delhi Event Center 
Wayfarers
The visual explorations of a teacher and his current and former students capturing life’s key moments and future longings.

Edward A. Dixon Gallery 
Picturing Tomorrow: Speculative Futures in Lens-Based Art
Invites artists to consider how photography can be used to document not just what is, but also speculate on what could be.

Fitton Center for Creative Arts 
Milestones: Finding Our Way
A diverse group of regional lens-based artists documenting personal, cultural, and environmental landmarks through a range of time-laden approaches to photography. 

Manifest Drawing Center
The Places We Keep: Holding Place, Holding Time
Images by Manifest students documenting their unique relationships with the places they hold most dear through film photography and darkroom printing.

The Well
True Body Project: Time is a Circle
A multi-channel film illustrating the nature of time, memory, and identity created by six youth artists in collaboration with filmmaker Andrea Sisson.

This list is presented by FotoFocus as a resource only. All artists will be independently selected by the venue with no oversight from FotoFocus or members of the FotoFocus team. Any questions or inquiries relating to a specific exhibition listed must be directed to the individual venue.