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Open Call Application
2025 Exhibition

Through the Eyes
of a Child

OPENS: May 1 | FINAL DEADLINE: June 30, 2025
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Through the Eyes of a Child
 
“Through the Eyes of a Child” presents works that explore themes of childlike wonder, curiosity, and unfiltered imagination. Drawing from memory, fantasy, and visual storytelling, this exhibition creates a space to consider innocence as both sanctuary and refuge in an ever-changing world. It invites viewers to reminisce,reflect, and reconnect with memories and experiences that may have faded overtime.
 
Artists are encouraged to showcase work that embodies playfulness, innocence, and escapism. Through abstract forms, bold use of color, and adventurous experimentation, these works convey emotional honesty and the beauty of uninhibited self-expression. While diverse in method, medium, and subject matter,each piece shares a common thread: a childlike lens that offers a fresh, imaginative perspective on the world around us.
 
This exhibition celebrates visual languages that are intuitive, raw, and expressive,offering a safe space for both nostalgia and creative invention. Viewers are invited to embrace the whimsy and wonder within these works, allowing themselves a momentary escape into a simpler, more magical world.
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Submission deadline: Round 2 June 30, 2025

Type: OPEN CALL for all 

Eligibility: International

Categories: Studio Art, Fine Art, Photography, Mixed Media, Written, Video and Multi Media, Open Theme 

Curatorial Team: Abigail Bruno, Kate Anderson, Erick Rivers

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Exhibition Director: Abigail Bruno

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About:

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​Abigail Bruno, Director of Curatorial Affairs, brings a background in Studio Arts and Technology, holding a BA from Purdue University. She has curated exhibitions including A Moment in Which We Want to Linger, Retro Fusion: Nostalgia Reimagined, and In Liminal Light: The Space Between, which explore themes of memory, surrealism, and transformation. Her exhibitions often bridge the conceptual and emotional, inviting audiences into immersive spaces of introspection, visual storytelling, and layered interpretation. As an abstract artist, Abi creates dream-like compositions using oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Inspired by organic forms and natural environments, her work emphasizes color and form as the central elements of her artistic language, rather than as tools for literal representation. Her paintings have been exhibited in several Purdue University galleries, including the Robert L. Ringel Gallery and the Patti & Rusty Rueff Galleries, and continue to evolve with her curatorial research.

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Final Deadline June 30

Eligibility: OPEN CALL

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All rights are reserved by the original artist/owner of any and all work submitted to Culturally. Culturally does not assume any rights or responsibility for work submitted.

Risk Policy

Any and all rights associated with each piece belong to the artist in their entirety at all times. I release Culturally, its instructors, staff, and/or any representatives thereof, from all liability of any kind, including, but not limited to claims and/or causes of action for damages, theft, personal injury, medical expenses, costs of any kind, including attorneys’ fees and court costs arising from my participation in the virtual exhibition “Through the Eyes of a Child”.

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