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Call Type: Art Exhibition Exhibition Display Dates: June 29 - July 31, 2026 Eligibility: Limited to artists physically residing in the Pacific Northwest, United States
Location: Corvallis, OR Entry Deadline*: 06/12/26 11:59 p.m. *All entries are online
Mediums: All mediums, must be installed as wall-mounted, 3/D wall-mounted art is limited to 6" depth from wall. No saw tooth hangers items should be wired for install.
Maximum # of submissions per artist/artist collaboration: 5
FIRE SEASON seeks work that sparks conversation around transformation, vulnerability, adaptation, and the elemental forces that shape our world. Fire is both catastrophe and catalyst. It clears and renews landscapes, gathers communities, signals danger, creates warmth, and reshapes memory.
In the American West, fire season has become an annual reality tied to climate change, drought, smoke, displacement, and resilience. Yet fire also exists beyond disaster: as ritual, technology, energy, protest, illumination, passion, ceremony, and material process
This exhibition welcomes artists whose work engages with fire as subject matter, metaphor, medium, or method. Possible theme interpretation includes, but are not limited to:
- Occupational: Wildland, Municipal, Smokejumpers, Hotshot crew, Helitack Crew
- Smoke, climate, environmental restoration and transformation
- Cycles of destruction and regeneration
- Heat, combustion, ash, light, and atmosphere
- Fire as ritual, mythology, spirituality, or symbol
- Political unrest, social tension, uprising, and urgency
- Domestic fire: hearth, warmth, memory, survival
- Fire as an artistic tool or collaborator
- Pyrographic, ceramic, welded, forged, burned, smoked, or kiln-fired processes
- Transformation through pressure, heat, and change
- Emotional intensity: rage, desire, grief, resilience, passion
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