Call for Submissions: 2025 FORMS, FACES & SPACES, figuratively speaking!

Top: Photo, Greg Coman. Bottom (left to right): Painting, Sherry Park; Mixed Media, Meena Chopra; Photo, Pema Hou; Photo Marlon Porter

FORMS, FACES & SPACES, figuratively speaking!
Satellite Site of the 29th CONTACT Festival

Studio By Design
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 4, 2025, 5pm
Exhibition Location: Halton Hills Cultural Centre, Georgetown

This show is a testament to our fascination with the human face and form, how we inhabit our spaces, interact with nature, pursue our daily lives, and engage together in creating community. The richness of commonalities that unite us amidst our diversities is celebrated anew in this annual show.

This exhibit will engage us in that age old exploration of “Who am I?” and “What does it mean to be human?”

Eligibility

1. Open to people 19 years of age or older and with a Canadian bank account. You are submitting this application and jpegs for adjudication and possible acceptance into the 4th annual FORMS, FACES & SPACES, figuratively speaking! exhibit organized by Studio By Design’s E. Connie Munson. This show is registered with the CONTACT Festival as one of the Open Exhibits.
   Note: Registered with the 2025 prestigious CONTACT Photography Festival, Munson asked for and was given permission to include other fine art with photography. This practice goes back to the first show in 2022.
2. This is an Open Call for 2-D and 3-D works in photography, paintings in any medium, mixed media, and sculpture that speak to the human condition with this theme. Any art form or style acceptable to display in a public building may be submitted.
   Note: The aesthetic of images in mixed media must be clearly original to the creator of overall piece with no A.I. tools used.
3. By uploading my images here, you agree to abide by the show’s guidelines per drop off and pick up dates of work, and to leave your work for duration of show. Any questions go to E. Connie at dimec4events@gmail.com.
4. No diptych or triptych work, no collaborative works, no installations, no Ltd. Ed. prints, no multi-media presentations. Work to be completed in last 10 years and not previously submitted to this show. It must be your original work or images (no A.I. tools nor stock images used).

Visit the website for more details and the online submission form.

Sherry Prenevost, Jubliation, Winning Photograph in 2024

Awards

$500.00 in prize monies:

• 1st $200
• 2nd $150
• 3rd $100
• Emerging Photographer $50

Adjudication Panel

Stephanie Schirm, European trained and OCAD graduate, local artist at Glen Williams Studios, teaches at several locations in southern Ontario and is past owner of Labyrinth Studios Inc., for the design and manufacture of sanctuary décor for Churches across Canada and the US. She is a member of the Society of Canadian Artist, and Portrait Society of Canada, and Ontario Society of Artists and recently acclaimed with the 2023 Marty’s Award for Visual Arts in the traditional form and a Civic Award of Recognition for the Visual Arts from Bonnie Crombie’s Mississauga Mayor’s office. Stephanie’s creations can be found in private collections throughout Canada, US and Europe.

Greg Coman is proprietor of a successful commercial photography business, Greg Coman Photography. He combines this with photo-journalism and his arts photography practice. He is a man for many seasons, active in the community with local initiatives and businesses and a long-time member of an area photography group. His work has been included in photos of the year with local journalists. This is his second year on the adjudication panel.

Jodi van der Kwaak, Happy Holi II

Submission Requirements

Go online for full details and to fill out the application. Application is complete when payment has been remitted per instructions on site.

Apply Here

Submission Deadline: April, 4, 2025 at 5pm

For additional information or questions, please contact:
E. Connie Munson
dimec4events@gmail.com

Studio By Design
ellie73m@gmail.com
647 466-1896
www.studiobydesign.ca

Facebook @studiobydesign
Instagram @ecm4u2

Image descriptions:
1. Poster with five images and CONTACT Photography Festival logo. Large B&W photographic image of young woman, upper body, looking out window. Smaller images across the bottom are a painting of a young woman, large eyes in mixed media image, photo of man walking a donkey in mountains, and a construction worker.
2. B&W photographic capture taken from above looking down on a crowd of dancing and playing children with arms outstretched above their heads.
3. Colourful face of man during Holi Celebration.
4. Four logos for Forms, Faces & Spaces, figuratively speaking!, Studio By Design, Contact Photography Festival, and Visual Arts Brampton.