Calls for Art
Annual Call for Art
Shows in the Front & Center Galleries are scheduled via an annual Call for Art. To be notified about future Calls for Art, sign up for MAC’s electronic newsletter here.
Applications for the 2026 Call for Art will be accepted June 15 – July 15, 2026.
A link to the online application will be available here during that timeframe.
Additional information:
2026 Call for Art – application guidelines, a description of the review process and an overview of each gallery
Tips for applying – a few helpful times to read before starting the online application
Acceptable media guidelines – a description of the types of art exhibiting in the Front & Center Galleries
Gallery map – Front Gallery
Gallery map – Center Gallery
The 2026 guest curators are Midori Hirose and Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.
The 2025 guest curators were:
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.
The 2025 guest curators were:
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.
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Solo exhibition by Tatyana Ostapenko, 2023.
(photograph at top) Solo exhibition by Tatyana Ostapenko, 2023.