Crafting Tomorrow

About the Open Call

CRAFTING TOMORROW SDA 2025 Small Group Exhibition Opportunity October 10 - November 2 , 2025, LA Artcore, 120 Judge John Aiso Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Held in partnership with LA Artcore and Textile Arts LA, this small-group exhibition will feature bodies of work by selected artists in a gallery exhibition at LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California. Selected works will build on the theme of Crafting Tomorrow and be juried by Fafnir Adamites. Art can be a portal to other worlds. It can offer us glimpses into the future and ways to shape the present. Crafting Tomorrow invites submissions from artists whose work explores what our lives, communities, and environment could look like in many possible futures. A day, a year, or a hundred years from now, how will visions of tomorrow trace back to today and reach even further into the past? How can our current engagement with urgent issues influence these trajectories? Whether an artist’s vision is utopian, dystopian, or somewhere in between, these creative projections offer us ways to understand where we are now as much as where we are going tomorrow. Highlighting fiber and textile-based materials and techniques, including traditional and cross-disciplinary practices, experimental processes, and material innovation, this group exhibition will showcase bodies of work from 3–5 artists who are “crafting tomorrow”. IMPORTANT DATES: June 16 (11:59 pm MT) - Call closes August 1 - Notification to artists October 3-4 - Work due at gallery October 10 - Exhibition opens November 2 - Exhibition closes November 10 - Artwork returned JUROR: Using traditional craft processes such as feltmaking, weaving and papermaking, Fafnir Adamites (they/them) creates sculptural and installation work that serves as a meditation on trauma, memory and the legacy of emotional turmoil inherited from past generations. Fafnir holds an MFA degree from the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Photography and Women’s Studies from UMass Amherst. Fafnir is currently Assistant Professor in the Fiber Area at California State University, Long Beach and has taught workshops and intensives at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program and Women’s Studio Workshop.

What is Offered

Small-group gallery exhibition at LA Artcore. Insurance coverage of up to $400 per artwork while in the gallery's care. Opportunity to facilitate art sales directly with interested buyers.

Requirements

Artwork requirements: Diptychs and triptychs are single artworks. Hanging work must be ready to hang. 2-D works cannot exceed 8’ tall. 3-D works cannot exceed 12’ in width or length. Ceiling-suspended work is acceptable, up to 15 lbs. Written instructions and photos for complicated installations are required. Unstable, fragile, or non-compliant works may be disqualified. Artists must provide equipment for electrical components. Submitted work must be available for the duration of the exhibition. No substitutions for accepted work. Accepted artwork differing significantly from the submission image may be disqualified. Shipping costs to and from LA Artcore are the artist's responsibility. Work must arrive October 3-4, 2025, with a prepaid return shipping label. Artists grant permission for SDA, LA Artcore, and Textile Arts LA to use accepted images for promotion, with attribution. Copyright remains with the artist. Submitted work must be original and not infringe copyright. Model releases are required for images including people.

How to Apply

To be considered for this exhibition, artists should submit 3-7 artworks (2D, 3D, audio, video) along with a short artist statement on the entire body of work. Juror requests one overall and at least one detail of each full original artwork. Fourteen images total may be submitted per entrant. Submissions must be made through CaFÉ by June 16, 2025. Requirements for image files: JPEG only, 72 ppi/dpi resolution, 5MB maximum file size. Video not to exceed 100 MB per sample. Audio not to exceed 10 MB per sample. A brief artist statement (500-800 words, max 5,000 characters) addressing the artist's overall practice is required. Artists are encouraged to complete the description field within each artwork submission for additional context.