OPEN CALLS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Open Call – Fall 2026, Pittsburgh Print Group
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We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 Pittsburgh Print Group (PPG) call for entries. Selected artists and artworks will be included in one of a series of three group exhibitions around Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, PA, in the Fall/Winter of 2026. The open call is open to active members of PPG, juried and curated by Hannah Turpin and Michaela Blanc, and organized by the PPG Board of Directors.
The call will be open from December 1st, 2025 until January 11, 2026 11:59 pm (EST).
Entries can be made individually, in duos, or as an artist collective.
Entries must include the following elements:
● C.V. or Resume including artist name, email address, and list of recent exhibitions.
● Artist Statement describing the themes, methods, and areas of interest of your creative practice (minimum 150 words).
● Images and an Image List detailing up to 10 different artworks. Please include things you would be excited to exhibit and/or artworks you feel encapsulate your practice. Image List should include artwork title, date, medium description, and dimensions.
● OPTIONAL: If you are working on anything new and do not yet have images, please include a brief description of your current project mentioning its themes, visuals, and anticipated outcome.
The curatorial program invites artists to display artworks that challenge artistic languages and enhance interdisciplinary expressions. Printmakers interested in bringing experimental materials in dialogue with traditional printmaking processes and substances into the gallery space are welcome to submit artworks. How can printmaking, as a visual language, comment on and document its moment? What other printmaking processes can speak to archival notions that communicate about experimental expressions and give you a look into our current realities?
Printmakers working in multidisciplinary ways as well as artists interested in expanding the medium and its traditional languages and modes of operation, are invited to submit projects. This could include prints combined with painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, bioart, creative writing, photography, performance, mixed media, metal, glass, fiber, ceramics, time-based media, and sound elements.
Please note: If your work was conceived or has a digital element, include all technical details and procedures for the installation process, such as the need for outlets, speakers, and power cords, and whether you can provide them.
For more information, email the Pittsburgh Print Group at pittsburghprintgroup.org.
Please note: Artists can expect to hear back from the curatorial team in February 2026. A studio visit with the curatorial team is likely to take place in March 2026. Final artist and artwork selection is set to be announced in April 2026.
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Curatorial Bios:
Hannah Turpin (She / They) is an independent curator and arts worker based in Pittsburgh, PA. They serve as Managing Director for Casey Droege Cultural Productions and the Director of Collections and Exhibitions for the O’Brien Art Foundation. Their recent curatorial projects include When the Lights Come On: Queer Nightlife as Emergent Space (Brew House Arts, 2025); Heavenly Realms: works by Eriko Hattori (SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles, 2023); Frills: Glories, Excess, and Getting Weird (SPACE Gallery, 2022); Elle Pérez (Carnegie
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2021); Counterpressures (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2020); and The Self Realized: queering the art of self-portraiture (Brew House Arts, 2019).
Michaela Blanc (She / Her / Ela) is the Pérez Art Museum Miami's Wikimedian in Residence, an open-source archival initiative that documents and expands online knowledge about artists in the collection, ensuring broader access to diverse perspectives and untold stories in art history. She previously held curatorial positions at the MassArt Art Museum at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Rio Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro. She guest curated shows for Tomayko Foundation, Casey Droege Cultural Productions at Pennsylvania Western University in California, the SMFA at Tufts on view at Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford; MassArt Low Residence MFA programs, and as a Graduate Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Blanc is a Leadership Advisor at Art+Feminism, a member of the Bunker Projects Board of Directors in Pittsburgh, and an alumna of the C& Critical Writing Workshop, Dallas (2023). She holds an MA in Museum Studies/Museum Education from Tufts University and a BA in Art History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
PREVIOUS CALLS …
imPRESSions
A Joint Printmaking Exhibition
for Members of Pittsburgh Print Group & Greensburg Art Center
SUBMISSIONS DUE
AUGUST 23, 2024
midnight EST
EXHIBITION DATES
SEPTEMBER 14 - OCTOBER 19, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, SEPTEMBER 14, 6-8 pm
LOCATION
GREENSBURG ART CENTER
230 Todd School Road
Greensburg, PA 15601
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CURRENTS
A Group Exhibition & Print Sale
SUBMISSIONS DUE
January 24, 2024
EXHIBITION DATES
March 14 - April 12, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, March 14
from 5-7pm
LOCATION
The Manderino Gallery
Penn West University – California
701 3rd St
California, PA 15419
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MYTH
A Group Exhibition
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February 1, 2024
EXHIBITION DATES
APRIL 1-30, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, April 5, 2024
The opening reception will be part of Garfield’s monthly First-Friday Unblurred art walk.
LOCATION
PULLPROOF STUDIO
5112 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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