Open Call for Art: Future Continuous

Application opens: January 1, 2025 | Deadline to submit: March 31, 2025

Artists working in all visual media are invited to apply to this year’s Open Call, guest juried by Lauren Sandler, CFEVA Visual Artist Fellow 2024-26. Apply now at cfeva.slideroom.com.

Future Continuous | As artists, we are shaped by our experiences and the social, historical, and personal contexts of our lives. Our lineages, the systems, structures, and institutional forces we navigate, leave great impact. How we react in turn can alter and revision, changing the course of effect on oneself and the spaces we occupy. How can our work provide a place of agency and response to powers imposed upon us? How can we create new visions and imaginings? This call is an invitation to daydream and speculate, to disrupt and reveal, to contemplate and amend the ways we are shaped by the world around us, and the ways in which our work can offer a future continuous.

Accepted Submissions will be notified in early April for a mid-May drop off date to CFEVA (237 S 18th St., #3a). The exhibition will be on view from May-July 2025 at CFEVA. CFEVA Artist Members may apply to this opportunity at no additional cost. Please visit cfeva.org/membership for more details, to join or renew your membership. Please contact Membership@cfeva.org with any questions.

Lauren Sandler is a ceramic artist and educator based in Philadelphia. Her work examines the myriad chronicles told by objects as a means to explore stories that have been erased, distorted, and rewritten. Her recent work utilizes the vessel as an assemblage of parts, an accumulation of material culture to offer multiple perspectives. The work becomes a site to examine economies of power, migration and occupation, labor and commodification. Through this process disparate systems, forces, and ideologies converge as layered narratives combine in one form.

Sandler exhibits nationally, and gives talks, workshops, and publishes work concerning contemporary and historic issues in ceramics. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from Penn State University, and undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Ceramics from Ithaca College and SUNY New Paltz. She served on the Board of The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts as Director at Large from 2019-2022 and is currently Associate Professor and Program Head of Ceramics at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.