South Shore Arts - Calls for Artists

83rd Annual Salon Show - My America

Deadline - May 22, 2026 by 5:00pm

My America is South Shore Arts’ first themed Salon Show. The exhibition invites artists to engage with the United States’ semi-quincentennial through a personal lens. What do 250 years of “America” mean to you? Is it celebrated, critiqued, or reimagined? Do you look back on the often-complicated history of the past 250 years, observe the present with all its strengths and challenges, or imagine the future? Ultimately, artists are asked to reflect on one essential question: What is My America?

Evergreen Artisan Market

Deadline - June 30, 2026 by 5:00pm

Join South Shore Arts for our Annual Evergreen Artisan Market, a multi-week winter market showcasing the work of over 30 talented artists and craftspeople. Last year, South Shore Arts welcomed an average of more than 1,500 visitors per week during the market, offering vendors an unrivaled opportunity to showcase their work.

This year’s market will feature a variety of media including jewelry, ceramics, stained glass, paintings, prints, and other handmade objects.

100 Views of Neighborhood Cats

Deadline - November 1, 2026 by 5:00 pm

100 Views of Neighborhood Cats continues the long-standing fascination with our feline companions, though with a distinctly modern inflection. The exhibition gathers a lively and eclectic group of local and established artists, each attuned to the peculiar charisma of their cat counterparts. Across painting, printmaking, and mixed media, cats appear in states of watchful stillness, comic suspicion, and domestic ease. The title borrows from the serial logic of Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period - most famously Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō - in which repetition becomes a form of meditation. Cats, not incidentally, populate many of these prints, slipping between scenes with the same self-possession they bring to contemporary life.