Artist Submissions

2026-2027 CALL FOR ARTISTS:

Deadline – August 1, 2026

Click here to view the application: 2026-27 Call for Art

ArtsWest seeks artists of ALL AGES to exhibit their artwork in the C-shaped gallery that is also the lobby of the theater. It is the mission at ArtsWest to produce artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination and use live theater as a powerful agent of change.

5 Local Visual Artists will be selected for the 2025 – 2026 Season.

Our goal is to marry what is on stage and what is in the gallery to allow our community to experience the themes, ideas, and cultural identities through 2 mediums: visual art & performance. This is not to say that the visual art should draw direct parallels to the theatrical productions, but inherently compliments it through the programming of the gallery.

SEASON 2026-2027 : A Visible Existence

“Art is a way to make your life matter, to make your existence visible.” – Kara Walker    

In a moment when so much of our world feels uncertain and disconnected, A Visible Existence asks a simple but urgent question: how can art reveal the hidden worlds we carry inside? 

This season features bold stories, unforgettable personalities, and thrilling theatrical experiences – from intimate storytelling to high-energy musical celebration, from sharp comedy to gripping psychological suspense.  Across these plays, artists, dreamers, outsiders, and communities struggle to connect, to create, and to understand themselves and one another through art, memory, music, and  imagination. Each of these stories explores the messy, funny, vulnerable, and deeply human desire to matter – and to be truly known. 

To create is to insist on our existence – to reach toward one another, to shape meaning from chaos, and ultimately, to make our existence visible. 

We are able to accommodate all wall-mounted visual art & small space for ceramics and sculpture. Our Gallery Hanging System requires that pieces be wired or be able to be hung by a hook.

No video installations.

Artists may sell their work. ArtsWest takes no comission.