Sticking Together: Approaches to Collage & Assemblage

Following the success of last year's exhibition by the same title, Artlink is excited to bring back this call-for-entry to artists who are stepping into the division of our times by creating work that uses both fragmentation and combination as crucial strategies for new ways of seeing and thinking. While it is true that the world has always been divided, today those divisions are accelerated through technology and entrenched through algorithms. Meanwhile, artists continue to find unique ways to respond to this, often through analog acts of cutting and pasting, this+that, ad hoc creativity. These strategies may include collage, assemblage, photomontage, quilting, installation, and other surprising applications of mixed media. These approaches are inherently suited to addressing paradox, multiple viewpoints, and plurality, serving up aesthetic harmony to help us make sense of the world. For Sticking Together, artists are encouraged to think broadly about the various ways collage, assemblage, and other processes of combination are evidenced in their work.

This exhibition will be juried by Tim Parsley, Program Director for Studio Art and Associate Professor of Studio Art (Painting and Drawing) at the University of Saint Francis, Division of Creative Arts in Fort Wayne, IN. Tim earned his BFA from the University of Cincinnati and his MFA from Miami University (Oxford, OH). He also works as a public artist and public art educator, creating numerous, large-scale, publicly-supported mural projects throughout the Midwest, New York, and Nairobi, Kenya.

Entry fee is $12 per entry with up to 10 entries allowed. Artists must be 18+ years of age and reside in the United States. Entry deadline is January 4, 2026 at 11:59pm, with jury notifications after January 11, 2026. Exhibition runs February 19 - March 15, 2026. All artwork sales are subject to a 35% sales fee, and artwork will be insured during exhibition at Artlink.