Chasing Ghosts 9: Piercing the Veil through Remembrance, Legacy, and Beyond

"Chasing Ghosts 9: Art that Pierces the Veil through remembrance, legacy, and beyond"
This year edition will be VIRTUAL and as always the emphasis is the idea of revealing the unseen. The term ghost may be interpreted in many ways, not necessarily meant to be a literal elucidation. This year's interpretations might be loaded with the added turmoil from current social, health, environmental, and political climate.  Do you express your deepest fears or concerns through your work? Do current political. health, and environmental concerns shadow or define your work? What parts of the past leave their mark on your work? Is a legacy revealed through your work or your process? Is memory a vital vehicle of expression for you? Do you inadvertently honor something from your past or concern for the future through your work? Artists are encouraged to enter work that is any interpretation of the call.  All mediums and modes of expression are welcome.   

"Chasing Ghosts 9: Art that Pierces the Veil through remembrance, legacy, and beyond"

This year edition will be VIRTUAL and as always, the emphasis is the idea of revealing the unseen. The term ghost may be interpreted in many ways, not necessarily meant to be a literal elucidation. This year's interpretations might be loaded with the added turmoil from current social, health, environmental, and political climate.  Do you express your deepest fears or concerns through your work? Do current political. health, and environmental concerns shadow or define your work? What parts of the past leave their mark on your work? Is a legacy revealed through your work or your process? Is memory a vital vehicle of expression for you? Do you inadvertently honor something from your past or concern for the future through your work? Artists are encouraged to enter work that is any interpretation of the call.  All mediums and modes of expression are welcome. Verum Ultimum Gallery invites artists to divulge their talent within this expressive, symbolic theme.

The exhibition will open in October and run for one month. It will be showcased on Verum's virtual gallery spaces, social media, blogposts, the website, and more.

Verum Ultimum Art Gallery
1513 SE 42nd

Portland OR 97215

REQUIREMENTS:

Contact Email: fineartvu@gmail.com
Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: International
State: Oregon
Entry Deadline: 9/17/2025

REQUIREMENTS:
Media
Images - Minimum: 1, Maximum: 10
Total Media - Minimum: 1, Maximum: 10

Entry Fee (Entry Fee): $20.00
 

Media Fee (per sample over minimum):$5.00
 

Chasing Ghosts 9: Art that Pierces the Veil through remembrance, legacy, and beyond
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

REQUIREMENTS:

Media 
Images - Minimum: 1, Maximum: 10
Total Media - Minimum: 1, Maximum: 10

Entry Fee (Verum Ultimum): $20.00 
TIMELINE SUMMARY:
SUBMISSION DEADLINE 9/17/2025


SCHEDULE

NOTIFICATION (by email) of accepted work
October 10, 2025


EXHIBITION DATES
The exhibition will open virtually in October of 2025 and run for 4 weeks

ELIGIBILITY AND RESTRICTIONS: 
The competition is open to all 2D and 3D artists, national and international, working in all forms of painting, drawing, photography, graphics, digital, and sculpture are eligible. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older to apply. 

EXHIBITION: 
Selected artists will be featured in a virtual group exhibition online on the Verum Ultimum Art Gallery website. This includes an exhibition page and virtual viewing galleries that show the work in scale. Artists will also be featured through online blogposts. Social media attention and promotion will remain on this exhibition for 4 weeks.

EXHIBITION TERMS:
Works in this show may be for sale or artists may elect a new option (a for exhibition only, NFS option). The gallery commission for this virtual exhibition is 35% percent commission on all sales (handled by the gallery). The gallery will provide artists with prepaid shipping labels when their work sells through Verum Ultimum (for the duration of this exhibition).

EXTRA DETAILS
Benefits to online exhibitions at Verum Ultimum:

A higher percentage of artists will be ACCEPTED! This exhibition is not confined by space.

The website remains comprehensive, and exhibitions remain on the website beyond the exhibition dates

An exhibition book will be produced and will remain in the Verum Ultimum library to be shared with visitors for years to come.

Social media attention will be focused on this exhibition for 4 weeks.

• 65% of sales WILL GO TO THE ARTIST and Verum Ultimum will provide a prepaid shipping label for the artist to ship work directly to collectors!
• Verum Ultimum enjoys a monthly reach of 8-14K through its website, google, and social media channels.

Verum Ultimum average order value outperforms 93% of sites in the industry

.ENTRY FEES: 
There is a $20.00 entry fee for 1 image
($5 for any entries over the minimum, any entry over the minimum is optional) ; presentation is by digital JPG image files. 
Details of artwork count as an additional artwork. 
Payments by credit card at time of entry through Cafe 

IMAGE USE / COPYRIGHTS: 
Artist retains all copyrights to submitted images and represented artwork. Digital images submitted with artist entry are for exhibition selection only and will be deleted after completion of the selection process. By entering the competition, artists selected to exhibit grant Verum Ultimum Gallery rights to use the selected image(s) on printed materials and the gallery web site for promotional purposes only. Verum Ultimum retain no copyrights to artist's work. 

NOTIFICATION: 
Artists will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance no later than 30 days after the deadline. Notification will be made via email. All artists who provide a working email address will be notified via email, if no email is provided, artists will be notified via postal mail only if accepted to exhibit. Type your email address clearly, if a mistake is made you will not be notified. 

PRIVACY POLICY: 
Artist contact information (address, telephone, etc.) is only held for the purpose of contacting selected artists and is not preserved in any database. Entry data and image files are deleted on the completion of the jury process. 

DEADLINE: 
The entry deadline is September 17, 2025.  Entries must be submitted via Café by this date. 

minimum of 1 image to enter (additional images are optional)

Artists 18 years of age or older.

Artists may elect to enter 1 image (more images are optional)

Artists 18 and older