Call for Submissions: Art Circuit 2025

Three Exhibition Opportunities

Art Circuit is back for 2025!

Submission Deadline: August 3, 2025
Event Date: Friday, October 3, 2025 | 7:00 – 10:00pm
artcircuit.ca

This unique event transforms Hamilton into a lively, mobile gallery experience—connecting art lovers, collectors, and creatives across the city on a looping bus tour of gallery openings and exhibitions. Guests hop on and off to explore each venue, meet artists, and engage with the vibrant local art scene.

Art Circuit is now accepting submissions from emerging and established artists working in all mediums to be part of this exciting evening of art and community.

Why Apply?

• Show your work in one of Hamilton’s participating galleries during a high-profile citywide event
• Connect directly with collectors, curators, and fellow artists
• Gain valuable exposure and build lasting relationships within the creative community
• Be part of an event designed to celebrate, uplift, and sell local art

Criteria

• Artists working in any visual medium (painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, digital, etc.)
• Work that is professional, original, and suitable for a public gallery setting
• Artists based in Hamilton or beyond who want to connect with the Hamilton art community

The Focus

Art Circuit has two core goals:

• Building community through art and connection
• Supporting artists by providing real opportunities for visibility and sales

Ready to Join the Circuit?

Submit your work between May 31 and August 3, 2025 to be considered. Spaces are limited and fill quickly—don’t miss your chance to be part of this unforgettable city-wide celebration of art!

Three Unique Opportunities to show your work at Art Circuit 2025, each with its own curatorial theme and atmosphere.

Artists are invited to review the individual submission guidelines for each space and apply to the exhibition that best aligns with their work. Whether your style is bold and contemporary, thoughtful and experimental, or rooted in traditional techniques—there’s a gallery that’s the right fit for you.

Take the time to explore each opportunity and submit your work to the space that best reflects your artistic voice. Feel free to apply for one or more shows (each show would require a separate submission and payment)

Cultural Fabric at The Sanford Hall Gallery at Westinghouse HQ

286 Sanford Ave North, Hamilton ON
www.westinghousehq.com

Sanford Hall Gallery at Westinghouse HQ invites you to submit to Cultural Fabric—a dynamic art exhibition that weaves together the diverse threads that shape Hamilton’s identity. Through visual art, mixed media, and installation, local artists reflect on the people, places, histories, and stories that define the city’s ever-evolving cultural landscape. From its industrial roots and immigrant communities to its vibrant arts scene and growing spirit of renewal, this show celebrates Hamilton as a living tapestry—layered, textured, and deeply interconnected.

An opportunity to honour the voices and visions that make Hamilton unique.

Submit here

Refracted at Wink Glass Gallery

1167 Cannon Street East, Hamilton, ON
www.winkglass.ca

Now accepting submissions for a vibrant and dynamic group exhibition that celebrates the medium of glass and the artists who are preserving, evolving, and redefining it.

Stained glass, a centuries-old art form that bridges history, architecture, and expression, is at risk of fading into obscurity. As renewed interest brings traditional techniques into the spotlight, contemporary artists are also pushing the boundaries of what glass can be—revitalizing the medium with innovation and relevance.

This exhibition aims to both honour the legacy of stained glass and amplify contemporary approaches to glass as a material. Wink Glass Gallery is seeking submissions that:

• Feature glass as a primary material
• Explore contemporary themes or treatments
• Highlight the versatility of glass in artistic works
• Work that incorporates non-glass elements or use glass in a less traditional way to showcase the unique and adaptable nature of glass in today’s artistic landscape is welcomed and encouraged.

By bringing attention to this endangered form, this exhibition hopes to foster appreciation, spark dialogue, and inspire a new generation of creators working with this luminous and transformative material.

Submit here

Patterns at the Back Alley Gallery

341 Herkimer Street, Hamilton, ON
backalleygallery.ca

Now accepting submissions for Patterns, a group exhibition exploring the essential role of connections in our lives —how we build them, sustain them, and are nourished by them. Patterns evoke repetition, structure, memory, and the subtle ways relationships and connections form over time.

What does it truly look like to be part of something larger than yourself? How does connection, mutual care, and collective identity show up in your work or your world? The title Patterns reflects both visual and conceptual rhythms—repeated gestures, generational knowledge, and the structures (visible or hidden) that hold us together.

This exhibition is looking for work that considers:

• How connections are built and maintained
• The idea of belonging
• The beauty and burden of tradition
• Acts of collaboration, mutual care, and the tension between individual expression and collective experience.

Examine the patterns that bind us, break us, and bring us back together.

Submit here

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