Kinhouse Open Door: 2027 Exhibition & Residency Open Call

Description

Kinhouse opens its door each year to emerging and mid-career artists and curators through Open Door, our annual call for solo, two-person, and three-person exhibitions. We welcome proposals for collaborations, artist collectives, performances, installations, and site-specific work — as well as proposals from curators looking to organize a show in our space.

Selected exhibitions will be part of our 2027 programming year and come paired with a fully funded residency week for participating artists, timed to coincide with your opening reception. Consider it an invitation to step through the door and into the Kinhouse community — to slow down, make work, and be supported while you do it.

We're looking for proposals with a clear vision, a strong statement, and compelling visuals, and thoughtful attention to diversity and inclusion. While submissions don't need to fall within our curatorial scope, Open Door especially welcomes work that engages with themes of community, care, belonging, the domestic, parenting, craft, and lineage — the same values that shape everything we do at Kinhouse.

Selected artists/curators will receive:

Communication and support leading up to the exhibition
Installation support for the exhibition
A fully funded 6-night residency at Kinhouse Residency in Fort Wayne (a 3-minute drive from our gallery)
Promotion and marketing of your artwork and exhibition across our platforms
Professional documentation of the exhibition (Kinhouse retains rights to use these images for promotional purposes)
We welcome submissions from artists of all genders and backgrounds. Work samples may be submitted as works-in-progress and do not need to be finished. Access the full application here.