Student Works 2025

Wayne Art Center is pleased to announce the CALL FOR ENTRY for WAC's annual student exhibition -STUDENT WORKS 2025! Each year Wayne Art Center is proud to showcase artwork created by WAC students across a wide range of artistic mediums and perspectives and invites all adult students enrolled in a class or workshop in-studio, on-location or online with WAC during the 2024-2025 academic year to exhibit one work. Students who were enrolled in multiple programs are invited to exhibit up to two 2-D or 3-D works.

Participating artists MUST be 18 years of age or older and MUST have been enrolled in a class(s) at WAC in the 2024/25 academic year. Work must have been completed since September 2024 while enrolled at WAC. An OPEN-CALL for students, this show is not juried for entry, it is juried for prizes only. Student Works 2025 will include ALL eligible works per the terms noted above. Christine Clay, artist, illustrator and educator will serve as juror of awards.
Student Works 2025 will remain on view from July 14 - August 15, 2025 in Wayne Art Center's Davenport and Vidinghoff Lobby Galleries. A date for an exhibition reception and awards ceremony will be announced in June.

All artwork information and exhibition fees are to be pre-registered digitally with EntryThingy by July 1st and then artwork is to be hand-delivered to Wayne Art Center on Monday, July 7th between 10am-5pm. 2-D work must be framed, wired and ready to hang (frame backs fitted with D-Rings are preferred) and 3-D work should be stable enough to sit securely on a pedestal or come with its own base to provide stability. Artists with work weighing more than 50 pounds should contact WAC to confirm installation prior to delivery. No 3D works in excess of 75 pounds are accepted.

*******Thank you for following submission directions with EntryThingy, selecting the payment button only AFTER your final submission information is complete (one or two works.) An exhibition fee of $20 per work will be processed online with your online pre-registration.

Artists should pre-register all artwork ARTIST/TITLE/MEDIUM/SIZE/PRICE information with EntryThingy. If participants wish to submit digital images of artwork for possible exhibition promotional use by WAC, submitters have the OPTION of uploading a high-resolution jpeg for each entered piece. Uploading jpegs is NOT required. Jpegs should be under 10mb, and file names are requested as ARTISTS NAME_TITLE OF ARTWORK.

Work on exhibit may be available for sale. Wayne Art Center retains a 40% commission of works sold. Artists whose work sells will receive payment on sales within 45 days of the closing date of this exhibition pending a required W9 form. All work must remain on view through August 15. Unsold work is to be picked-up on August 18 between 10am-5pm.
Work may be marked as Not for Sale as long as a value is provided for insurance purposes.

Please be sure to create only one submission (for one or two works as desired.)
Please do not re-submit your info via EntryThingy after you've paid you entry fee. Email [email protected] if you require changes to a completed/paid submission.
Changes to your completed submission through EntryThingy may result in a reprocessing of your entry and an inadvertent second entry fee. THANK YOU.