Calls for Art
Shows in the Front & Center Galleries are scheduled via an annual Call for Art. The next Call for Art will be open August 1-31, 2025. To be notified when future calls happen, sign up for MAC’s electronic newsletter here.
2025 Call for Art – application guidelines
Online application – this link will be active August 1 – 31, 2025
Additional information:
The selection committee for MAC’s annual Call for Art includes two guest curators and MAC’s gallerist, Megan Hatch. The 2025 guest curators are:
Melanie Stevens is an artist, illustrator and writer. She is the creator of the graphic novel series, WaterShed, and the founder and director of black whole Press, a printmaking studio that hosts free workshops and provides resources, funding and residency programming for artists from marginalized communities. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree for Political Science from Yale University and her Master’s of Fine Arts degree for Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she currently teaches.
Celeste Noche (she/her) is a Filipino American editorial and documentary photographer based between Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California specializing in food, travel, and portraiture. Her work is rooted in the narrative; exploring memory, displacement, and identity. She is the founder of Portland in Color, an arts nonprofit highlighting BIPOC creatives in Portland, and just opened her first photo studio this year.
Kanani Miyamoto is an artist, curator, and educator. She is originally from Honolulu, Hawai`i, and is currently living in Portland, Oregon. Kanani holds an MFA in Print Media from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a BFA in Art Practices from Portland State University. Her artwork has been shown nationally. As an individual of mixed heritage who identifies most with her Hawaiian and Japanese roots. she uses traditional printmaking techniques to create large-scale print installations. Important to her work as an artist is “sharing and celebrating her unique mixed background in our contemporary art world in hopes of representing her community and the beauty of intersectional identities.” Kanani is also an advocate for art education and a passionate community worker. She works at p:ear as the Art Coordinator.
Pablo V. Cazares is an artist, curator, and community organizer in Portland, Oregon. In 2022, he created the t4t Art Collective, an art group focused on giving transgender artists opportunities to show work and build resilient community. In his own art he explores memory and self-creation through the lens of his overlapping neurodivergent, mixed-race, and transgender identities. Pablo holds a BFA in Art Practice from Portland State University, as well as an associate degree in Apparel Design. He’ll be attending the Rhode Island School of Design to begin his MFA in Sculpture this fall.
(photograph at top) Solo exhibition by Tatyana Ostapenko, 2023.
Calls for Art
Shows in the Front & Center Galleries are scheduled via an annual Call for Art. The next Call for Art will be open August 1-31, 2025. To be notified when future calls happen, sign up for MAC’s electronic newsletter here.
2025 Call for Art – application guidelines
Online application – will be available August 1 – 31, 2025
Additional information:
The selection committee for the annual Call for Art includes two guest curators and MAC’s gallerist, Megan Hatch. The 2025 guest curators are:
Melanie Stevens is an artist, illustrator and writer. She is the creator of the graphic novel series, WaterShed, and the founder and director of black whole Press, a printmaking studio that hosts free workshops and provides resources, funding and residency programming for artists from marginalized communities. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree for Political Science from Yale University and her Master’s of Fine Arts degree for Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she currently teaches.
Celeste Noche (she/her) is a Filipino American editorial and documentary photographer based between Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California specializing in food, travel, and portraiture. Her work is rooted in the narrative; exploring memory, displacement, and identity. She is the founder of Portland in Color, an arts nonprofit highlighting BIPOC creatives in Portland, and just opened her first photo studio this year.
Kanani Miyamoto is an artist, curator, and educator. She is originally from Honolulu, Hawai`i, and is currently living in Portland, Oregon. Kanani holds an MFA in Print Media from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a BFA in Art Practices from Portland State University. Her artwork has been shown nationally. As an individual of mixed heritage who identifies most with her Hawaiian and Japanese roots. she uses traditional printmaking techniques to create large-scale print installations. Important to her work as an artist is “sharing and celebrating her unique mixed background in our contemporary art world in hopes of representing her community and the beauty of intersectional identities.” Kanani is also an advocate for art education and a passionate community worker. She works at p:ear as the Art Coordinator.
Pablo V. Cazares is an artist, curator, and community organizer in Portland, Oregon. In 2022, he created the t4t Art Collective, an art group focused on giving transgender artists opportunities to show work and build resilient community. In his own art he explores memory and self-creation through the lens of his overlapping neurodivergent, mixed-race, and transgender identities. Pablo holds a BFA in Art Practice from Portland State University, as well as an associate degree in Apparel Design. He’ll be attending the Rhode Island School of Design to begin his MFA in Sculpture this fall.