Fall 2026 Submissions
Now Open!
Featuring work from:
Kaitlyn Altobelli
Sharvaree Bhalerao
Sasha Borislow
Kaz Britton
Anthony Brown
Luca Campagnoli
Joey Crofts
Jupiter DeLuca
Natalie Eisenman
Elizabeth Elsey
Tate Ely
Maira Faisal
Molly Fortunak
Kaylee Fowler
Kiara Groves
Kai Gumser
Max Klocke
Asher Marin
Alex May
MJ
Benson Moore
Nate Murphy
Ryan Schramm
Cole Stockman
Jojo Sudler
Waverly Vernon
Audrey Zelinksi
Fall '26 Theme:
Peripheral Vision
Aren’t the eyes the windows to the soul? You know, the eyes chico, they never lie.
Peripheral vision
(n.) of, relating to, or being the outer part of the field of vision
Outside the bounds of central vision, the periphery is shadowy, blurry, and often ignored. Time is a non-linear phenomenon – a lingering feeling or a fleeting moment, something that could last forever or is gone in a blink, a skip, a heartbeat. We all experience time differently, notice time differently, feel time differently.
Once something moves out of the spotlight, does it lose importance? Is it forgotten? We invite you to let us see what you want us to see.
- What surrounds you in your daily world but escapes unnoticed, slithers by unseen?
- Who and what exists on the fringe – the primal, the forgotten, the strange?
- In the nexus of life, what patterns do we miss? In the revolving carousel of reality, what changes, and what stays the same?
“What it must be to see a whole landscape anywhere, as our vision must stop somewhere, peripherally left and right, and away from us at the horizon. So, is the whole landscape always a fragment of a greater landscape? Or are we to understand that all landscapes exist as fragments and that those fragments are in themselves whole?” Percival Everett, Erasure, 15
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