Small Works Holiday Show

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Small Works Holiday Show
Grove Gallery, 619 Grove Street, Evanston IL 
December, 2025
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The Grove Gallery in Downtown Evanston, IL is seeking 2D paintings, drawings and prints for their December Small Works Holiday Exhibition. 
Jurors: Lisa Degliantoni and Liz Cramer, Directors of Evanston Made
Submission Deadline: 11/15/25. No application fee! 3 submissions per artist. Only one application per artist, please. 
Size limit: 24" on longest side. Price limit: under $1500
Artists must be local and live within a 100 mile radius of Evanston. Accepted work needs to be hand-delivered, not shipped.
Eligible media: 
Paintings: original oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel paintings. Pen and ink, watercolor travel illustrations, collage, and mixed media paintings are eligible. All paintings should be 2D, hand-made, one of a kind, sit flush with the wall, and weigh less than 2 pounds. 
Drawings: charcoal, pastel, graphite, pen and ink, colored pencil, and scratchboard. 
Hand-pulled prints: woodcuts, etchings, drypoint, intaglio, monotypes, monoprints, linoprints, collagraphs, and chine colle. Ineligible: giclee prints, photographic prints and ink-jet prints. 
This call is for 2D media only. No sculpture or photography. This applies to relief sculpture that hangs on the wall, as well. 
Image submission guidelines: High-res, non-glare. 300 DPI. At least 2000 pixels on longest side; no larger than 4800 pixels.
Not recommended/required to frame before submitting. If work is already framed, please include images of the frame.Simple, clean frames with minimal ornamentation are preferred. If the work is accepted, frames should be white, black or neutral, (metal or wood). Detail shots are encouraged to show brush strokes and texture. High-quality images representative of artwork make a big difference. 
Please use Archival (acid-free) materials. Acid-free materials are non-yellowing and ensure high quality artwork that stands the test of time. This includes cotton-rag paper, acid-free foam core and mat board, and primed canvases. 
Warped canvases will not be accepted. All work must be in excellent condition. 
Duration of Small Works Exhibition: December 6th to December 22nd, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 6th, 2 to 5 PM
Please watch the helpful video to learn how to enter this exhibition. 
User Entry Process Tutorial
This quick tutorial will help you with the submission process.