Sum Sum Summ-A-Time

Drawing Rooms
“Sum Sum Summ-A-Time” 
Artsy Online Exhibit

Exhibition Dates 8/6/26 - 8/30/26
Submissions Due 7/22/26 
Artist Notification 7/26/26

We invite you to submit work for consideration in our Drawing Rooms exhibit, “Sum Sum Summ-A-Time”, an online-only exhibition presented on Artsy.net. While the gallery is closed for summer, we thought it would be a great idea to find out what you like to do in the summer and feature that work in an online show.

Acceptable media includes painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, sculpture, fibers or any other fine art medium.  Artists chosen will also be considered for our other programs, such as The Art Project JC lobbies, and online Artsy.net exhibits throughout the year. 

Drawing Rooms art gallery at the Mana Contemporary complex in Jersey City is a project of Victory Hall Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization. 

Drawing Rooms
“Sum Sum Summ-A-Time” 
Artsy Online Exhibit

Exhibition Dates 8/6/26 - 8/30/26
Submissions Due 7/22/26 
Artist Notification 7/26/26

It's summertime and we invite you to submit work for consideration in our Drawing Rooms exhibit, “Sum Sum Summ-A-Time”, the first online-only exhibition presented on Artsy.net!

Acceptable media includes painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, sculpture, fiber or any other fine art medium. There is no size limitation!

We'd like to see both works relating to the theme of summer:

• scenes and places
• summer food
• leisure
• flora and fauna
• the colors, sensations and experiences of summertime
• works you made during this or any other summer
• works made in a warm weather climate
• imagery of what you would like to do in the summer
• work made during a summer residency program
• anything else you can make a case for that relates to the concept of summer.

Let's capture summer's essence!

Many famous artists have created works on the theme of summer: Carole Feuerman’s bathing-capped swimmers, Milton Avery’s beach scenes inspired by summers in Massachusetts and Maine, Peter Doig’s warm-weather and tropical paintings made after his move to Trinidad, Gauguin’s Tahiti, Monet and Manet’s painting of French coastline beaches, David Hockney's swimming pool paintings, Alex Katz' Maine beach paintings.  

There are too many songs about summer—from Billie Holiday: Summertime, Earth Wind and Fire: Hot Fun in the Summertime, Beach Boys: California Girls, Lana Del Rey: Summertime Sadness, Ramones: Rockaway Beach, DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince: Summertime, The Beatles: Here Comes the Sun, to Weezer: Island in the Sun, and more, that we just can’t decide on our favorite!

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Features:

1- Online Artsy Exhibit

“Sum Sum Summ-A-Time” will be a Drawing Rooms Artsy.net Online Exhibit. Drawing Rooms has an extensive selection of artists' works, previous exhibits, and featured-artist “viewing room” pages on this world-class art sales platform. Galleries and collectors from around the world engage with Artsy as the preferred way to view and purchase fine art online.

 
2- Meet the Artists Online Zoom event

Drawing Rooms will host an online Meet the Artist Event afternoon on Zoom that will feature artists from the exhibit and be open to the public.

3- Future Gallery Programs 

Artists in the exhibition will be given preference for our Jersey City Lobby Program and the Big Small Show at our Jersey City gallery space, as well as future online Artsy.net presentations throughout the year.

Artists included in any of our 2026 shows will have preferred status for our end-of-the-year holiday blow-out exhibition, The Big Small Show, replete with a full weekend Opening, wine, delicious holiday snacks, and a catalog. The Big Small Show is like a party in appreciation of the artists we work with throughout the year, along with new artists we hope will continue to be part of our community. 

About Drawing Rooms

Drawing Rooms  is a nonprofit art space and gallery in the Topps Building on the Mana Complex in the Journal Square neighborhood in Jersey City. We show two and three-dimensional works by emerging and mid-career artists in NJ and the NY metropolitan area, as well as nationally and internationally. Since 2001, our innovative and exciting exhibitions, public programs, and publications have enriched the lives of our community through an appreciation of and involvement with contemporary art. 

About the Curator

Anne Trauben is the Curator and Gallery Director at Drawing Rooms. She began working with Victory Hall Inc. in 2009, and was a founding artist of Drawing Rooms in 2012. Since 2013, she has organized, curated and created programming for year-round exhibitions of multiple artists at Drawing Rooms in the former convent on Grand St. in Jersey City and, since 2018, at the new Drawing Rooms gallery on the Mana complex. In 2020, during the pandemic, she organized, curated, and created programming for Prayers for the Pandemic, a 4-part Drawing Rooms national public art exhibition, and solo / two-person exhibitions at Dvora Gallery. In 2022, after the pandemic, Drawing Rooms reopened in a newly expanded space where she has since been organizing, curating, and creating programming for gallery exhibitions and public art programs. Anne is the Founder, Publisher and Editor of Nieuw Art Blog since 2017.

Learn more about the call below.

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Drawing Rooms will be presenting artworks selected as a Show on Artsy.net. 

Make sure the images you submit are ready to post: 2D images should have background cropped out. 3D works: choose image with the best angle to describe the artwork. 

ACCEPTABLE WORKS 

Media: painting or drawing on paper, canvas, or other media; collage or textiles, photography, prints, sculpture.

Works must be original. No AI or reproductions of original works.

Size: No size limit 

All works in the exhibit must be FOR SALE with 60% to artists and 40% to Drawing Rooms.

All works will be represented on Drawing Rooms’ show on Artsy.net 

Submissions Due 7/22/26

ARTIST NOTIFICATION 7/26/26
Please remember to check your spam and promotions folder. If you haven't received a notification by 7/27/26, please check the status of your submission in CaFE. Accepted works will be listed as "invited."

Our Artsy Online Gallery: https://www.artsy.net/partner/drawing-rooms

Our Gallery: 
Drawing Rooms
926 Newark Ave. T101
Jersey City NJ, 07306

www.drawingrooms.org

Instagram: @drawingrooms_jc

JPGS

• You may submit up to 3 images of your work for $30.
• You may submit more for consideration with no limit, at $5 per image
• Each jpg must measure at least 1200 pixels in any dimension and can be any resolution (pixels per inch).

You must be over 18