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Open Calls

What Jurors Look For in Open Call Submissions
ByMarea Gallery June 29, 2026July 6, 2026

The selection process for a curated open call can feel like a mystery from the outside. You submit your work, you wait, and then you either hear back or you don’t. What happened in between? What was the curator actually looking at? This article opens up that process from the inside. As the curator of…

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Open Calls

5 Mistakes Artists Make When Submitting to Open Calls
ByMarea Gallery May 26, 2026June 6, 2026

You found the right open call. The theme resonates. The deadline is weeks away. You submit and then you don’t hear back. It’s a familiar experience for many artists, and it’s rarely about the quality of the work itself. More often, it comes down to how the work was presented, small, fixable things that make…

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