Look into the crystal ball 🔮 We see you expanding your aura at the opening of “Third Eye,” our 3rd Anniversary show! 🎂

🐖🐖OPEN CALL🐖🐖

HEAR YE, HEAR YE: it’s an “Animal Farm” exhibit at Base Camp Studios! Gather ‘round all ye’ pigs, sheep, horses, cows, chickens, and other barnyard critters for this group show! 🐖 🐑 🐴 🐄 🐓 We are looking for bucolic scenes with beloved farm animals. But bonus points if the animals are also donning extravagantly patriotic attire, wielding pitchforks, and demanding the end to some injustice du jour. Imagine Old MacDonald in the middle of the French Revolution or a 4H Conference at Independence Hall in 1776.

We want to see idyllic sheep in gentle, rolling meadows AND revolutionary pigs. Majestic horses AND prize-winning hogs giving a stump speech. Have a painting with newly hatched baby chicks? 🐣 That would show perfectly in this exhibit. So, too, would an image of cows kicking down the barn door. 🐮 In other words, “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

Artists of all mediums are encouraged to submit, including illustrators, blatant propagandists, and radical street artists. We like that beautiful, thoughtful, limit-pushing work. Just put a chicken on it. This is a show about farm animals first, and politics second. Or maybe it’s about politics first, and farm animals second? Maybe it’s not even about politics. It’s definitely about farm animals. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter—we’re just horsing around with this show and hope you will too.

Submit your pieces that showcase the resistance of the individual, the fall of a false revolution, or the folly of the masses. Wherever it is we want to see it, and don’t forget the animals.

New and existing work will be accepted in proposals. Piece must be finished by drop off dates.

Apply by June 22 🔗: bit.ly/animalfarmart

🎨 SAVE THE DATE 🎨
Who’s Offended — A solo art show by Ezra Dickinson
📍 Base Camp Studios 2, Seattle WA
🗓 Friday, July 11 | ⏰ 6–12 AM | 💥 FREE

Join us for an unforgettable night of art, performance, and bold truths. Ezra Dickinson’s latest work challenges viewers to reflect on discomfort, censorship, and expression.

Featuring live performances by:
🎤 Spoken word by Nahaan
🩰 Movement duet with Donald Byrd & Ezra Dickinson
🎶 Music by Seize The Means
🎧 DJ set by WIZDUMB

✨ Free event • All are welcome

🧚🧚OPEN CALL🧚🧚

Once upon a time there was a gallery in search of artists whose work told great stories of princesses, dragons, and adventures in lands far, far away. That gallery is Base Camp Studios and you are the artist of our fairy tale dreams!

For “Once Upon a Time...” we are seeking works of all mediums depicting contemporary and classic fairy tales from around the world. From a grand “Wish Upon a Star” Disney princess story to a lesser known Brothers Grimm tale with trolls and ogres under bridges, we want to see it all! Let the Monkey King, Anansi, Paul Bunyon, the Coyote and other cultural folk tale heroes (and villains) be your inspiration. “Once Upon a Time...” is a hero vs. villain and good vs. evil kind of show.

Submit your pieces that showcase both classic and contemporary fairy tales. A surrealist spin would complement these magical works. Think outside of the book on these ones.

New and existing work will be accepted in proposals. Piece must be finished by drop off dates.

NOTE: This show will occur in August alongside our Fourth Annual Summer Outdoor Movie Series, presented in partnership with SIFF.

Key Dates

Submissions are due by 11:59pm on July 13.

Selected artists will be notified by July 17.

Drop-off dates and times will be July 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27 at 2407 1st Ave during gallery hours (Fridays 2-6pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 12-4pm).

Show will open Saturday, August 2nd at Base Camp Studios. The show will run through Saturday, August 30.

Belltown Art Walk will be Friday, August 8.

Artist panel discussion will be Saturday, August 16.

Films in the “fairy tale” genre will be shown at sunset at Portal Park each Wednesday in August. Stay tuned for more details on this!

Submit 🔗: bit.ly/Fairytaleart