2025 Teens Take the Frist!

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CALL FOR TEEN ART
2025 Teens Take the Frist!
Theme: Breaking Barriers
We invite teens in Middle Tennessee to submit artwork for consideration. See below for the timeline and other details. This exhibition will be on view from July 19, through August 18, 2025.
About 2025 Teens Take the Frist!: Prompted by our vision of inspiring people through art to look at their world in new ways, the Frist Art Museum invites teens to submit their artwork for this seventh edition of Teens Take the Frist! Emerging Middle Tennessee artists will explore the theme of Breaking Barriers in a variety of media. This exhibition, along with other Frist initiatives like Teen ARTlabs and the Teen Arts Action Group, is intended to give individuals ages 13–19 a safe space to express themselves and participate in activities with peers and art professionals. Works will be matted and exhibited in the Upper Level Corridor near the Frist education studio classrooms.

Questions? Contact Shaun Giles at sgiles@FristArtMuseum.org.
 
2025 Teens Take the Frist! Exhibition TimelineApril 21                            Submission period opens at 2025teenstakethefrist.artcall.orgJune 10                            Submission period closes
June 13                            Selected artists notified via email
June 14–June 29             Selected artworks mailed/delivered to the Frist Art Museum
July 19                             Exhibition opens; Teens Take the Frist! Opening Celebration
August 18                        Exhibition closes
Dates subject to change without notice.
 
Terms & Conditions
Eligibility: Teens ages 13-19 who reside in the following Middle Tennessee counties are eligible: 
Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson, Dekalb, Dickson, Fentress, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Macon, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Moore, Overton, Perry, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Rutherford, Sequatchie ,Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Van Buren, Warren, Wayne, White, Williamson, Wilson
2025 Teens Take the Frist! will feature only two-dimensional artworks. No three-dimensional works will be considered for inclusion.
 
Submission process: Students must submit their work between April 21 and June 10, 2025 (no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT, when the online system will close). There is no submission fee. Students may submit one artwork for consideration. The maximum size for each work is 24 inches on its longest side. Artists must provide accurate dimensions for each work. File size of each submission must be under 25 MB. A confirmation email will be sent upon receipt of each submission. By submitting work for consideration, the artist warrants and represents to the Frist Art Museum that the work is an original creation of the artist and does not infringe upon a third party’s copyright or other intellectual property or other rights. 
 
Contact Shaun Giles at sgiles@FristArtMuseum.org if your digital media files cannot be reduced in size to meet these requirements.
 
Permissions granted to the Frist Art Museum: By submitting artwork for consideration, the artist certifies that they own the copyright to their work, and they are entitled to license the rights herein on a nonexclusive and gratis basis to the museum. The artist grants permission for any of their exhibition artwork to be photographed by the public for personal use and to be photographed, filmed, or telecast for promotional and documentation purposes by the museum or the media while on display. The artist grants the museum permission to use any submitted materials in its promotional and educational efforts in support of this exhibition, including but not limited to release of images and media files to the press for editorial review, publication on the Frist’s website and social media pages (at 72 ppi), promotional and marketing endeavors of the museum, publication in print and digital formats in support of the exhibition in components like the exhibition gallery guide or invitation, and any other noncommercial use. The artist also understands that the museum will make an effort to include a credit line acknowledging the artist and their work whenever the work is published but that space and other factors are sometimes constraints to this recognition.
 

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