Calling for Artwork, Music & Performance for Integration: Genesis from Synthesis (Brooklyn)

Gather Center invites artwork, music, and performance for Integration: Genesis from Synthesis, the Autumn phase of our annual Consciousness Spiral. Integration is a movement of dynamic stillness, metabolism, and revealing interconnections, teaching us that nothing is truly separate. Open to all artists age 18 and over who can hand deliver work to, and collect it from, our Greenpoint, Brooklyn gallery. A juried exhibition with an opening reception on Friday, November 20, 2026.

At a glance

• • Submit up to 3 works in a single application.
• • One entry fee of $35 covers all three.
• • Open to all artists age 18 and over, in any medium.
• • Selected work must be hand delivered to and collected from our gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on the listed dates.
• • Submissions close Sunday, November 8, 2026.

About Gather

Gather Center explores individual empowerment in parallel with unity consciousness, a living expression of becoming aligned with our annual Consciousness Spiral. With a strong emphasis on cross-disciplinary and collaborative projects, Gather Center's programming makes visible the continuity across all forms of creation. Following decades of service in multidisciplinary and public arts, Gather Center was founded in 2023 by Allison Harrell Mistier and André-Philippe Mistier, opening doors in 2025 to their gallery and digital immersion spaces and garden.

Consciousness Spiral

Gather Center's annual Consciousness Spiral is a shared participation to discover and witness, to inspire and expand on individual empowerment and unity consciousness. Rather than a loop, this sequence invites return with expansion, spiraling along Awakening in Spring, Resonance in Summer, Integration in Autumn and Embodiment in Winter in collective rhythm with the Earth.

Integration : Genesis from Synthesis

For Phase III within this curriculum, Gather Center invites you to explore Integration, a movement of dynamic stillness, metabolism and revealing interconnections. Integration is when we continuously return to an update until it is no longer new. It teaches us that nothing is truly separate and that through us, timelines and borders collapse. Integration is purposeful presence with both release and recognition, generating tools across steady use that makes insight lived.

Meditations on Integration:

"The leaf nourishes the seed."

"Through the cracks came the light."

"Slow down to receive."

Synthesis applied:

Becoming borderless. Point of permeability. Transmutation. Integration is the ultimate form of recycling into a greater point of consciousness than where we began. Sequences that support insight synthesize into an actionable point. Making interconnections visible. Integration teaches us that nothing is truly separate. From belief to capacity. Congruence as the agreement between what we have understood and our behavior.

Key dates:

• • Submissions open: Friday, October 2, 2026
• • Submissions close: Sunday, November 8, 2026
• • Notifications: by Friday, November 13, 2026
• • Artwork drop off: Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10 AM to 6 PM
• • Installation: Thursday, November 19, 2026
• • Opening reception: Friday, November 20, 2026, 5:30 to 8:30 PM
• • On view through early January 2027, open for viewing Saturdays, 12 to 5 PM
• • Artwork pickup: Friday, January 8, 2027

What you can submit:

• • Wall works up to 60 inches on any side and up to 40 pounds, projecting no more than 6 inches from the wall
• • Sculpture, freestanding, or deeper work, and anything beyond these limits, by arrangement
• • Sound, audio, and music; selected audio may join a companion online release, as with Resonance
• • Performance and installation, by arrangement
• • Works on paper and fragile surfaces must be framed or glazed

How your work must arrive:

• • Ready to hang. Wall works use a hanging wire, D-rings, or a cleat. Wire or cleats only.
• • No Velcro, adhesive strips (such as Command strips), sawtooth hangers, or tape.
• • Labeled on the back with your name, the title, and your contact information.

In your application you will provide the name you want used in print, your confirmed Instagram handle, a short artist statement and bio, and for each work the title, year, medium, exterior dimensions (measured outside the frame, height by width by depth), price, and how it hangs or installs.

Open to all artists age 18 and over. There is no location restriction, but selected work must be hand delivered to, and collected from, the gallery in person on the dates listed, so you must be able to arrange drop off and pickup from our location in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (94 Guernsey St.). All media welcome: painting, works on paper, photography, textile, sculpture, sound, music, multimedia and performance.