Edges & Boundaries

Theme: An examination of literal and metaphorical borders. This could include topographical edges (coastlines, riverbanks, clear cuts), architectural lines, social divisions, or personal thresholds. The theme is highly relevant to discussions of land use and identity in the PNW.

Exhibition Dates: Tuesday March 10th - Saturday April 4th

Public Opening: Georgetown Art Attack Saturday March 14th 12PM - 7PM

Artwork Delivery Dates: March 3rd - 7th | 11AM - 6PM

For the Edges and Boundaries show, the maximum size for two-dimensional work is 48 inches on the longest side. For three-dimensional work, please keep pieces under 60 inches in height and under 30 inches in width or depth.

In-person exhibition 

Edges & Boundaries: Artist Call Description

Edges & Boundaries invites artists to examine the lines that shape our lives the visible and invisible, imposed and chosen. In the Pacific Northwest, boundaries are everywhere: coastlines that redraw themselves with every tide, riverbanks that hold and release, mountain ridge-lines that divide weather systems, and clear-cut borders that reveal the politics of land. This exhibition uses “the edge” as both subject and framework by asking what happens at the threshold where one state becomes another.

We welcome work that considers literal borders (geographic, architectural, infrastructural) as well as metaphorical boundaries (social, cultural, psychological, ecological). Submissions might explore sites of transition: fences and property lines, zoning maps and survey marks, shorelines and floodplains, doorways and corridors, skin and surface, language and accent, citizenship and access, intimacy and distance. Artists may also engage boundaries as systems by how they’re drawn, enforced, negotiated, or dissolved and who benefits from their permanence.

We’re interested in works that treat the boundary not as a fixed line, but as an active zone: a place of friction, exchange, ambiguity, and transformation. The “edge” can be a site of protection or exclusion, clarity or distortion, rupture or repair. It can mark a limit or reveal that limits are always constructed.

We encourage submissions across art and conceptual practices, including projects that incorporate mapping, archives, field research, material traces, or community narratives. Works may be quiet and observational or direct and confrontational, but should demonstrate a strong conceptual relationship to the idea of borders, thresholds, and the spaces in between.

Consider:

• Where do you encounter boundaries in daily life and who defines them?
• What edges are natural, and which are engineered?
• How do borders shift over time (erosion, migration, gentrification, climate)?
• What does it mean to cross a line physically, socially, emotionally?
• Can a boundary be a meeting place rather than a barrier?

• Submissions due by twelve midnight 3/1/2026
• Artist approval notifications will be sent by midnight 3/3/2026
• Invited Artists artwork should be ready to be shipped with the Gallery receive date or personal delivery date between 3/4/2026 - 3/7/2026 between hours of 11am - 5pm.
• Artwork is available at time of submission and during exhibition dates: Tuesday March 10th - Saturday April 4th.
• Artist Commission 60% | Gallery Commission 40%
• Exhibition includes, 2nd Saturday Artwalk Event, Website and Social Media Representation, and mid-exhibition Artist Event

• Price Restrictions: Artist's Retail Price (includes Gallery Commission) should not exceed $5,000.00
• Invited Artist are responsible for Shipping and Receiving of artwork to and from gallery.
• For the Edges and Boundaries show, the maximum size for two-dimensional work is 48 inches on the longest side. For three-dimensional work, please keep pieces under 60 inches in height and under 30 inches in width or depth.